Vincanne Adams

Vincanne Adams Article Publications since 2000

Adams, V. “Tibet on Fire” In Veena Das and Clara Han, eds. An Anthropology of Living and Dying in the Contemporary World, University of California Press (in press).

Adams, V. “The Poverty Factory” to appear in Ananya Roy and Emma Shaw Crane, eds, Territories of Poverty, University of California Press (in press)

Adams, V. “A History of International Health Encounters: Diplomacy in Transition” in T. Novotny and I. Kickbusch, eds, Global Health Diplomacy 2013

Adams, V. “Evidence Based Global Public Health: Subjects, Profits, Erasures” in J. Beihl and A. Petryna Editors When People Come First Princeton University Press, 2013

Adams, V. “Evidence of the Tibetan Body: Making the Subtle Winds Visible in an Evidence Economy” To appear in Pordie, L. ed. Volume Asia and Europe in Global Perspective

Adams, V. “The Other Road to Serfdom: Recovery by the Market and the Affect Economy in New Orleans” Public Culture 24(1):185-216, 2012

Adams, V. "Encounters with Efficacy” Journal of Asian Medicine 6:1-21, 2011

Adams, V. T. Van Hattum, S. Kaufman and S. Moody-Ayers "Aging Disaster: Mortality, Vulnerability, Resilience and How Age Matters over the Long Term among Katrina Survivors" Medical Anthropology 30(3):247-270, 2011

Adams, V. and S. R. Kaufman "Ethnography and the Making of Modern Health Professionals" Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 35(2):313-320, 2011

Puri, S., V. Adams, S. Ivey, and R.D. Nachtigall "'There is no such thing as too many daughters, but not too many sons': A qualitative study of son preference and fetal sex selection among Indian Immigrants in the United States" Social Science and Medicine. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.01.027 Adams, V., K. Erwin, and P.V.Le "Governing through Blood: Biology, Donation and Exchange in Urban China" in A. Ong, and N. Chen, eds., Asian Biotech: Bioeconomics and Communities of Fate. Duke University Press 2010

Adams, V. "Against Global Health? Arbitrating Science, Non-Science and Nonsense Through Health" in Jonathan Metzl Anna Kirkland eds., Against Health:How Health Became a New Morality NYU Press pp.40-60, 2010

Adams, V, R Dongzhu, and P.V. Le "Translating Science: The Arura Medical Group at the Frontiers of Medical Research" In S. Craig, M. Cuomu, F. Garrett, and M. Schrempf eds., Studies of Medical Pluralism in Tibetan History and Society International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, pp.111-136, 2010.

Adams, V. Renqing Dhondup and Phuoc V. Le "A Tibetan Way of Medical Science: Revisioning Biomedicine as Tibetan Practice" in Adams, Schrempf and Craig, eds., Medicine Between Science and Religion London: Berghahn Publishers pp. 1078-126, 2010.

Adams, V., Mona Schrempf and Sienna Craig "Medicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Ground" Introduction, in Adams, Craig and Schrempf, eds., Medicine Between Science and Religion London: Berghahn Publishers 2010.

Adams, V., T. Van Hattum, and D. English "Chronic Disaster Syndrome: Displacement, Disaster Capitlaism and the Eviction of the Poor from New Orleans" American Ethnologist 26(4): 615-636, 2009.

Adams, V., A. Clarke and M. Murphy "Anticipation: Technosciene, Life, Affect and Temporality" Subjectivities 28: 246-265, 2009.

Adams, V., K. Erwin, and P.V.Le "Public Health Blood Donation in Urban China" Social Science and Medicine 68(2009): 410-418.

K. Erwin, V. Adams and P.V.Le "Glorious Deeds: Work Unit Blood Donation and Postsocialist Desires in Urban China" Body and Society 15(2) 51-70, 2009.

Craig, S. and V. Adams “Global Pharma in the Land of Snows: Tibetan Medicines, SARS, and Identity Politics Across Nations” Journal of Asian Medicine 4:1- 28, 2009. Craig, S. and V. Adams "Efficacy, Morality, and the problem of Evidence in Tibetan Medical Research" Complementary Therapies in Medicine (Science Direct), abstract doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2008.03.003. 2009.

Adams, V., T. Novotny, H. Leslie "Global Health Diplomacy" Medical Anthropology 12(4):315-323, 2008.

Adams, V. "Modernity and the Problem of Secular Morality in Tibet. In Vincent Houben and Mona Schrempf, eds., Figurations of Modernity: Global and Local Representations in Comparative Perspective Frankfurt: Campus Verlag 2008: 105-120.

Garrett, F. V. Adams, et al. The Three Channels in Tibetan Medicine: with a Translation of Tsultrim Galtzen's 'A Clear Explanation of the Principal Structure and Location of the Circulatory Channels as Illustrated in the Medical Paintings' Peter Das. Ed., Traditional South Asian Medicine vol 8;86-114, 2008.

Adams, V. and Fei Fei Li, Integration or Erasure? Modernizing Medicine at Lhasa's Mentsikhang. In Laurent Pordie, ed., Exploring Tibetan Medicine in Contemporary Context: Perspectives in Social Sciences. (Winner of the ICAS, International Convention of Asian Scholars, Book Prize for 2009, Colleague Choice Award), Routlegde UK, Needham Research Institute Series, pp. 105- 131, 2008.

Adams, V. Introduction, M. Kleisath, ed., Heavy Earth, Golden Sky: Tibetan Women Speak About Their Lives. Shem Women's Group, Xining,PRC, Lulu Press, 2007.

Anderson, W. and V. Adams "Pramoedya's Chickens:Postcolonial Studies of Technoscience" In EdwardJ. Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch, and Judy Wajcman,eds., Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Third Edition. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007.

Adams, V., M.Varner, S.Miller, S.Craig, Sonam, Lhakpen "Informed Consent in Cross Cultural Perspective: Clinical Research in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, PRC Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 2007.

Miller, S., P.V. Le, S.Craig, V. Adams, C. Tudor, Sonam, Nyima, Droyoung, M. Tschomo, Lhakpen, and M. Varner "How to Make Consent Informed: Possible Lessons from Tibet" IRB: Ethics and Human Research 29(6):7-14, 2007.

Adams, V., M.Varner, S.Miller, S.Craig, Sonam, Lhakpen "Informed Consent in Cross Cultural Perspective: Clinical Research in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, PRC" Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 2007.

Adams, V. "Integrating Abstraction: Modernising Medicine at Lhasa's Mentsikhang" in Soundings in Tibetan Medicine: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives. Mona Schrempf, ed. Leiden: Brill 2006.

Adams,V. and Stacy L. Pigg, Introduction: The Moral Object of Sex, in Adams and Pigg, eds. Sex and Development, Duke University Press 2005.

Adams,V. Moral Orgasm and Productive Sex: Tantrism Faces Fertility Control in Lhasa, Tibet, China in Adams and Pigg, eds. Sex and Development, Duke University Press 2005.

Adams, V., M.Varner, S.Miller, S.Craig, Sonam, Lhakpen, “Having a Safe Delivery: Conflicting Views from Tibet” Health Care for Women International 26(9):821-851, 2005.

Adams, V., M.Varner, S.Miller, S.Craig, Sonam, Lhakpen, "The Challenge of Cross Cultural Clinical Trials Research: Case Study from Tibet" Medical Anthropology Quarterly 19(3):267-289, 2005.(Winner of Polgar Prize, Society for Medical Anthropology)

Adams, V. "Saving Tibet? An Inqiry into Modernity, Lies, Truths, and Belief" Medical Anthropology 24(1): 71-110, 2005.

Adams, V. "Equity of the Ineffable: Cultural and Political Constraints on Ethnomedicine as a Health Problem in Contemporary Tibet" Public Health, Ethics, and Equity, Sudhir Anand, Amartya Sen, and Fabienne Peter, eds., Oxford University Press 2004.

Adams,V. "Randomized Controlled Crime: Postcolonial Sciences in Alternative Medicine Research Social Studies of Science 32(5-6):659-690,2003.

Adams V. The Sacred in the Scientific: Ambiguous Practices of Science in Tibetan Medicine. Cultural Anthropology 16(4):542-575, 2002. Adams, V. Suffering the Winds of Lhasa: Politicized Bodies, Human Rights, Cultural Difference, and Humanism in Tibet" Reprinted in Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo, eds., The Anthropology of Globalization. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers 2002, pp381-409.

Adams V. Establishing Proof: Translating "Science" and the State in Tibetan Medicine. In Margaret Lock and Mark Nichter, eds., New Horizons in Medical Anthropology: Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie. London: Bergin and Garvey, 2002. pp.200-220.

Adams V. Particularizing Modernity: Tibetan Medical Theorizing of Women's Health in Lhasa Tibet. Linda Connor and Geoffrey Samuel, eds., Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism and Science in Asian Societies. London: Bergin and Garvey 2000, pp. 222-246.