Janelle S. Taylor (PhD 1999, Chicago)
Research Interests:
Medicine and medical education, dementia, technology, commodification and consumer culture, reproduction, science studies; US
“As a sociocultural anthropologist I use ethnographic methods to study health, illness, medical education, medical technology, and medical practice. My research has focused in five different directions: 1) ultrasound technology, consumption, and the politics of reproduction; 2) medical decision-making at the end of life; 3) formulations of 'culture' within medical education; 4) problems of "recognition" in relation to dementia; and 5) standardized patient performances in health professions education. Common to all these projects, different as they are, is a concern to document and understand how three processes work in tandem: 1) how "persons" are socially made (and unmade); 2) how representations relate to social practices; and 3) how mediation happens, between distinct systems of value.”
Personal Web Page: [Click Here]
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Selected Publications: |
2009 |
"The Presence of the Absent Body," Contact Sheet 150 |
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2008 |
The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram: Technology, Consumption, and the Politics of Reproduction. Rutgers University Press. |
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2008 |
"On Recognition, Caring, and Dementia." Medical Anthropology Quarterly 22(4):313-335.
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2008 |
“Ultrasound: Diagnostic Test, Bonding Opportunity, or Consumer Entertainment?” In Our Bodies Our Selves: Pregnancy and Birth, ed. The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, pp. 118-119. New York: Simon & Schuster. |
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2007 |
“Surviving Surrogate Decision-Making: What Helps and Hampers the Experience of Making Medical Decisions for Others.” EK Vig, HS Starks, JS Taylor, EM Hopley, K Fryer-Edwards. Journal of General Internal Medicine 22:1275-1279. |
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2006 |
“Beyond Substituted Judgment: How Surrogates Navigate End-of-Life Decision-making.” EK Vig, JS Taylor, HS Starks, EM Hopley, K Fryer-Edwards. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 54(11):1688-1693 |
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2005 |
"Surfacing the Body Interior", Annual Reviews in Anthropology 34: 741-756. |
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2004 |
Consuming Motherhood, co-edited with Linda Layne and Danielle Wozniak. Rutgers University Press. |
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2003 |
“The Story Catches You and You Fall Down: Tragedy, Ethnography, and ‘Cultural Competence',” Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 17, No. 2 (June). |
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2003 |
“Confronting ‘Culture' in Medicine's ‘Culture of No Culture',” Academic Medicine, vol. 78 no. 3 (June). |
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2000 |
“Of Sonograms and Baby Prams: Prenatal Diagnosis, Pregnancy, and Consumption,” Feminist Studies 26(2):391-418. |
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