Mara Buchbinder
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
71 Papers
270 Citations
Mara Buchbinder is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Abortion. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 55 publications. Previous affiliations of Mara Buchbinder include Case Western Reserve University & Dartmouth College.
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Papers
Patients-in-Waiting Living between Sickness and Health in the Genomics Era
TL;DR: “patients-in-waiting” as an umbrella concept for those under medical surveillance between health and disease is suggested, finding that some newborns will experience a specific trajectory of prolonged liminality between a state of normal health and pathology.
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) in South Africa: engaging multiple constituents to shape the research question.
TL;DR: The community-based participatory research (CBPR) model is explored as a means to negotiate a mutual agenda between communities and researchers on the (perceived) need for cervical cancer screening in an under-resourced community in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Family routines and rituals when a parent has cancer.
TL;DR: The authors examine the reorganization of family life after cancer diagnosis by reporting findings from a qualitative study of families with young children dealing with a parent's cancer, focusing specifically on parents' self-reports of how their families developed and experienced new routines and rituals while one parent underwent cancer treatment.
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Giving an Account of One’s Pain in the Anthropological Interview
TL;DR: This paper analyzes the illness stories narrated by a mother and her 13-year-old son as part of an ethnographic study of child chronic pain sufferers and their families and argues that medical anthropologists ought to attend more closely to the institutional structures and relations that shape the production of illness narratives in interview encounters.
THE CANON - 5. Patients and healers in the context of culture: an explorationof the borderland between anthropology, medicine, and psychiatry, by Arthur Kleinman.
TL;DR: By carefully weaving together rich ethnographic material with sharp theoretical insights, Kleinman carved out a role for anthropology in the clinic that deftly transcends the overwrought applied/theoretical divide.
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