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ciera.williamsAdriana Petryna is a professor of anthropology at UC Berkeley. Her primary research area is on medical anthropology, social studies in science/technology, and eastern europe.
Adriana Petryna is a professor of anthropology at UC Berkeley. Her primary research area is on medical anthropology, social studies in science/technology, and eastern europe.
The mental health is a crisis and the response is not enough for supporting. Many examples and narrative are shows the situations. Every single person have affected by the suicide and the problem was worse and worse. There were many reports about the issue but just little action for solving the problem.
The article is a report on an occurence where two EMTs witnessed four NYPD officers beat a patient on the stretcher. The author supports the story with quotes from the report written by the EMTs.
The article not really address the public health inequities. However, Dr Kramer considered that combine the case vignette and storytelling can help doctor’s judgement, especially in the area of psychiatric.
"If we weigh “evidence” by the pound or the page, we risk moving toward a monoculture of C.B.T"
"Stories capture small pictures, too. I’m thinking of the anxious older man given Zoloft. That narrative has power"
"For a variety of reasons, including a heightened awareness of medical error and a focus on cost cutting, we have entered an era in which a narrow, demanding version of evidencebased medicine prevails"
There doesn’t seem to be much coverage for the program, and it is pretty obscure outside of academia.
The publisher is Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement. The article is initial contribution by Jean-Marc Biquet and refer to Andrea Binder.
The author likely read through the referenced articles to find where they could be appropriately cited, and then conducted first hand interviews with select people (as mentioned in the notes) to put the information into context. Together, the multiple forms of media allow for a well-rounded point of view in writing the article, with various angles being well-represented throughout.
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