Archive: Emily Mendenhall
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“Ukuphumelela: Flourishing and the Pursuit of a Good Life, and Good Health, in Soweto, South Africa”
Emily Mendenhall and her research team investigate how people residing in Soweto, located in South Africa’s Gauteng province, define, experience, and express what it means to live a flourishing life, both on its own and in relation to health.
Category: Scholarship
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Infectious Historians Podcast, Episode #78: Covid in Iowa with Emily Mendenhall
Emily Mendenhall joins Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai to discuss Covid in her hometown in northwest Iowa.
Categories: Media, Past events
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COVID, Quickly, Episode 14: “Best Masks, Explaining Mask Anger, Biden’s New Plan”, Scientific American Tackled Emily Mendenhall’s Research
In this episode of Scientific American’s podcast series “COVID, Quickly”, senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman explore Emily Mendenhall’s research on mask rejection in Okoboji, Iowa.
Categories: Media, Past events
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“How COVID, Inequality and Politics Make a Vicious Syndemic”, Emily Mendenhall and Clarence C. Gravlee in Scientific American
Emily Mendenhall and Clarence C. Gravlee analyze the conditions that made COVID a syndemic in the US.
Category: Media
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“The Anthropology of Health Systems: A History and Review”
Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors conceptualize the anthropology of health systems as a field; review the history of this body of knowledge; and outline emergent literatures on policymaking, HIV, hospitals, Community Health Workers, health markets, pharmaceuticals, and metrics. They describe high-quality ethnographic work as an excellent way to understand the complex systems that shape health outcomes, which provides a critical vantage point for thinking about global health policy and systems.
Category: Scholarship
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“Flourishing: Migration and Health in Social Context”
Emily Mendenhall and other researchers draw on case studies from three world regions, to propose concrete steps clinicians and health institutions can take in order to better serve migrant patients.
Category: Scholarship
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“Introduction: Migration and Health in Social Context”
Emily Mendenhall and Seth M. Holmes introduce the BMJ Global Health journal’s issue on “Migration and Health in Social Context”, focused on the social, political and economic structural factors that impede or facilitate health among the most vulnerable migrants seeking care from clinical settings globally.
Category: Scholarship
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“On Symbols and Scripts: The Politics of the American COVID-19 Response”
Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors argue that, to unravel the American COVID-19 crisis —and to craft effective responses—, a more sophisticated understanding of the political culture of public health crises is needed. According to the researchers, the social processes of meaning-making help explain the evolution of increasingly partisan public health discourse regarding topics like masking and institutional trust. They consider how and why certain issues gain political valence, and what opportunities certain acts of politicization provide in shifting public discourse.
Category: Scholarship
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Georgetown Now: A Conversation with Georgetown President John J. DeGioia featuring Emily Mendenhall
Conversation between Georgetown President John J. DeGioia and Emily Mendenhall.
Category: Past events
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“A Spectrum of (Dis)Belief: Coronavirus Frames in a Rural Midwestern Town in the United States”
Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors investigate how society in rural America reacted to the coronavirus outbreaks of 2020. Without government COVID-19 mandates, conflicting moral beliefs divided American communities. Social fragmentation, based on conflicting values, led to an incomplete pandemic response in the absence of government mandates, opening the floodgates to coronavirus.
Category: Scholarship