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 4:128, 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. 105131, 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.