Lectures

July 22, 2021

The new trial communities: challenges and opportunities in preconception cohorts

This article is part of the series: Excavating and (re)creating the biosocial: Birth cohorts as ethnographic object

The Excavating the Biosocial series has so far focused on birth cohorts as ethnographic object (Gibbon and Pentecost 2020). In this post, I explore the expansion of interest in the early life period, particularly for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) research, to include ‘the preconception period.’ Recently, interest in this period has produced new kinds of trial communities …

Lectures

November 14, 2019

Introduction: Excavating and (re)creating the biosocial; birth cohorts as ethnographic object of inquiry and site of intervention

By Sahra Gibbon and Michelle Pentecost

This article is part of the series: Excavating and (re)creating the biosocial: Birth cohorts as ethnographic object

Longitudinal birth cohorts are increasingly recognised as important for understanding how biological, social and environmental processes interact over time and contribute to health inequalities. Birth cohorts have also become part of global assemblages of knowledge production, particularly in the field of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD, Gluckman et al. 2016), and act as important technologies of evidence …

Features

August 23, 2016

Conference Report: The Humanization of Health Sciences through Innovation in Health Professions Education

By Thomas Cousins and Michelle Pentecost

Brocher Foundation, May 2016

Introduction

This three-day event took place at the Brocher Foundation Institute, Geneva, from May 17-20 2016, and was generously funded by a Brocher Foundation award. The organising team included Berna Gerber, Thomas Cousins, and Lizahn Cloete (Stellenbosch University), Megan Wainwright (University of Cape Town), Michelle Pentecost (University of Oxford), Ferdinand Mukumbang (University of the Western …

In the Journals

May 4, 2016

In The Journals – April Part II

By Michelle Pentecost

Another set of great papers from the journals in April. Enjoy!

Social Science & Medicine

‘I knew before I was told’: Breaches, cues and clues in the diagnostic assemblage

Louise Locock, Sarah Nettleton, Susan Kirkpatrick, Sara Ryan and Sue Ziebland

Diagnosis can be both a ‘diagnostic moment’, but also a process over time. This paper uses secondary analysis of narrative …

In the Journals

April 22, 2016

In the Journals – April 2016 Part I

By Michelle Pentecost

Welcome to the first stack of ‘In the Journals’ for April! It’s a bumper crop, so find a cosy corner and some coffee to comb through it all. Happy reading!

Medicine Anthropology Theory

Is the 21st century the age of biomedicalization?

Eileen Moyer and Vinh-Kim Nguyen

(Excerpt from editorial )

The diverse contributions that make up this issue of MAT, …

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Author Archives: Michelle Pentecost

The new trial communities: challenges and opportunities in preconception cohorts

Introduction: Excavating and (re)creating the biosocial; birth cohorts as ethnographic object of inquiry and site of intervention

Conference Report: The Humanization of Health Sciences through Innovation in Health Professions Education

In The Journals – April Part II

In the Journals – April 2016 Part I