Vincanne Adams

Summary

Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Saving Tibet? An inquiry into modernity, lies, truths, and beliefs
    Vincanne Adams
    Departmetn of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
    Med Anthropol 24:71-110. 2005
  2. ncbi Informed Consent in cross-cultural perspective: clinical research in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, PRC
    Vincanne Adams
    Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
    Cult Med Psychiatry 31:445-72. 2007
  3. ncbi Public health works: blood donation in urban China
    Vincanne Adams
    Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UCSF, PO Box 0850, 3333 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94143 0850, United States
    Soc Sci Med 68:410-8. 2009
  4. ncbi Aging disaster: mortality, vulnerability, and long-term recovery among Katrina survivors
    Vincanne Adams
    Medical Anthropology, University of California San Francisco, USA
    Med Anthropol 30:247-70. 2011
  5. ncbi The challenge of cross-cultural clinical trials research: case report from the Tibetan Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China
    Vincanne Adams
    Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine University of California, San Francisco, USA
    Med Anthropol Q 19:267-89. 2005
  6. ncbi How to make consent informed: possible lessons from Tibet
    Suellen Miller
    Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, USA
    IRB 29:7-14. 2007
  7. ncbi Having a "safe delivery": conflicting views from Tibet
    Vincanne Adams
    Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
    Health Care Women Int 26:821-51. 2005
  8. ncbi "There is such a 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
    Sunita Puri
    Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
    Soc Sci Med 72:1169-76. 2011

Research Grants

  1. Blood Donation and HIV Prevention in China
    Vincanne Adams; Fiscal Year: 2006
  2. Age, Disruption, and Life Reorganization after Hurricane Katrina
    Vincanne Adams; Fiscal Year: 2007
  3. Age, Disruption, and Life Reorganization after Hurricane Katrina
    Vincanne Adams; Fiscal Year: 2010

Detail Information

Publications8

  1. ncbi Saving Tibet? An inquiry into modernity, lies, truths, and beliefs
    Vincanne Adams
    Departmetn of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
    Med Anthropol 24:71-110. 2005
    ....
  2. ncbi Informed Consent in cross-cultural perspective: clinical research in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, PRC
    Vincanne Adams
    Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
    Cult Med Psychiatry 31:445-72. 2007
    ..The findings suggest greater need for flexibility and cooperation in establishing Informed Consent protocols across cultures and nations...
  3. ncbi Public health works: blood donation in urban China
    Vincanne Adams
    Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UCSF, PO Box 0850, 3333 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94143 0850, United States
    Soc Sci Med 68:410-8. 2009
    ..We also identify the key factors that enabled China's response to this burgeoning epidemic to be, in the end, largely successful...
  4. ncbi Aging disaster: mortality, vulnerability, and long-term recovery among Katrina survivors
    Vincanne Adams
    Medical Anthropology, University of California San Francisco, USA
    Med Anthropol 30:247-70. 2011
    ..We offer insight on how we might define and characterize disasters, and illustrate that long-term catastrophes "age" in specific ways...
  5. ncbi The challenge of cross-cultural clinical trials research: case report from the Tibetan Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China
    Vincanne Adams
    Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine University of California, San Francisco, USA
    Med Anthropol Q 19:267-89. 2005
    ..It explores strategies of negotiation and translation in and around notions of the scientific method, informed consent procedures, randomization, blinding, placebo, and concepts of medical standardization...
  6. ncbi How to make consent informed: possible lessons from Tibet
    Suellen Miller
    Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, USA
    IRB 29:7-14. 2007
  7. ncbi Having a "safe delivery": conflicting views from Tibet
    Vincanne Adams
    Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
    Health Care Women Int 26:821-51. 2005
    ..Our work also provides an example of the benefits and challenges that arise when ethnographic research methods are used to design and implement health care interventions...
  8. ncbi "There is such a 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
    Sunita Puri
    Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
    Soc Sci Med 72:1169-76. 2011
    ....

Research Grants5

  1. Blood Donation and HIV Prevention in China
    Vincanne Adams; Fiscal Year: 2006
    ..Data collection will occur in Shanghai; overall project oversight and data analysis will occur in San Francisco, CA. ..
  2. Age, Disruption, and Life Reorganization after Hurricane Katrina
    Vincanne Adams; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Examining the process of unwanted change in later life can provide many insights about how people deal with change, the ways they adjust and accommodate it in daily life, and the effects of unwanted change on health and well-being. ..
  3. Age, Disruption, and Life Reorganization after Hurricane Katrina
    Vincanne Adams; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..Examining the process of unwanted change in later life can provide many insights about how people deal with change, the ways they adjust and accommodate it in daily life, and the effects of unwanted change on health and well-being. ..