Evan S. Levine

Levine, Evan I.

doi:10.1287/2f0671c1-30d3-4c90-b942-dab7abfd1f3c

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“…Levine24 writes that understandings of illness cannot be reduced to what is reflected under the microscope and that there is a need in (bio)medicine to see beyond this. In the same vein, Lock and Nguyen16 present a discussion of how medical knowledge should be understood as deeply social, existing within an intersection of social, cultural and political contexts, ‘an assemblage of knowledge and practices inextricably associated with political expediencies, social interests, and embedded values.’ Young,25 writing on the anthropologies of illness and sickness in the early 1980s, expresses a similar and still relevant idea that ‘the task at hand is not to simply demystify knowledge, but to critically examine the social conditions of knowledge production’ and how everyday experiences of health, illness, and healing are shaped and transformed through this.…”

Section: Eh!woza As a Medical Humanities Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond the lab: Eh!woza and knowing tuberculosis

et al. 2018

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Eh!woza is a public engagement initiative that explores the biomedical and social aspects of tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa. The project is a collaboration between scientists based in an infectious disease research institute, a local conceptual/visual artist, a youth-based educational non-governmental organization (NGO) and young learners from a high-burden TB community. The learners participate in a series of interactive science and media production workshops: initially presented with biomedical knowledge about TB and, in later sessions, are trained in creating documentary films and engage with ideas around visual representation. The participants are encouraged to make use of this newly acquired knowledge to tell stories from their chosen communities in Khayelitsha, a township in Cape Town. Through its engagement with the complex manner in which TB is experienced, framed and understood by biomedical scientists, young people, and those who have been affected by the disease, Eh!woza presents alternative ways of exploring the complexities of human illness. The integration and interrogation of biomedical understandings, lay narratives and the young participants’ framing of the disease poses questions about ’knowing', and the meanings people attribute to ways of ’knowing' and the actions they impel. The project also presents contrasting reflections on cure—from a biomedical perspective, and care—from the perspective of TB-affected young people and community members. In this article, we describe the Eh!woza project, present thoughts from the participating students on the science and media workshops, and detail the narratives of ill-health and disease from people within their neighbourhoods. We conclude with a critical analysis of the complexities of knowledge communication, notions of cure versus care, and a consideration of the potential contribution of this project to the growth of medical humanities in Africa.

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Beyond the lab: Eh!woza and knowing tuberculosis

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“…The concept often suggests a transformation of policymakers’ relationship to risk, going beyond modernist approaches which sought to identify and contain risk and introducing a ‘post-classical’ (Chandler, 2014a, 2014b) approach which accepts that risk is an inescapable fact of life. Building resilience has emerged as a key objective of British policy in a number of fields, most notably security (Chandler, 2012), development (Levine et al, 2012), and environmental (Nelson et al, 2007) policy. As a result, resilience has drawn considerable attention from scholars of public policy (e.g.…”

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Resilience in British social policy: Depoliticising risk and regulating deviance

Amery

2018

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Over the past decade, resilience has emerged as a key priority linking disparate areas of British policy. Yet research to date has focused heavily on resilience as a dimension of international development and security agendas. This article maps the movement of resilience into British social policy. It finds that, as in other areas of policy, resilience in social policy functions to depoliticise, placing the structural determinants of gender, racial, and other inequalities beyond the reach of policymakers. Yet, in a departure from academic accounts of resilience, in social policy, resilience appears to play another role: that of regulating social deviance.

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“…26 Documenting a viral infection has also been shown to contribute to identify febrile infants at low risk of SBI. [9][10][11][12][13] However, as having a proven viral infection does not fully rule out the risk of SBI (especially UTI), [15][16][17] viral tests cannot replace blood or urine analysis but must be seen as additional tools in the management of these patients.…”

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“…12,13 Regarding the management of febrile infants younger than 3 months, several authors have shown that infants presenting a proven viral infection have a significantly lower risk of SBI. [14][15][16][17][18] An early diagnosis of a viral infection could help consider a larger proportion of febrile infants 884582C PJXXX10.1177/0009922819884582Clinical PediatricsEpalza et al…”

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Role of Viral Molecular Panels in Diagnosing the Etiology of Fever in Infants Younger Than 3 Months

Epalza

Hallin

Busson

et al. 2019

Clin Pediatr (Phila)

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As infants with proven viral infection present lower risk of bacterial infection, we evaluated how molecular methods detecting viruses on respiratory secretions could contribute to etiological diagnostic of these febrile episodes. From November 2010 to May 2011, we enrolled all febrile infants <90 days presenting to emergency room. Standard workup included viral rapid antigenic test and viral culture on nasopharyngeal aspirate. Samples negative by rapid testing were tested by molecular methods. From 208 febrile episodes (198 infants) with standard techniques, rate of documented microbiological etiology was 13% at emergency department, 47% during hospitalization, and 64% with viral cultures. Molecular methods increased microbiologically documented etiology rate by 12%, to 76%. Contribution of molecular methods was the highest in infants without clinical source of infection, increasing documentation by 18%, from 50% to 68%. Making viral molecular results rapidly available could help identifying a higher proportion of infants at low risk of serious bacterial infection.

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Evan S. Levine

Cited by 8 publications

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Beyond the lab: Eh!woza and knowing tuberculosis

Beyond the lab: Eh!woza and knowing tuberculosis

Resilience in British social policy: Depoliticising risk and regulating deviance

Role of Viral Molecular Panels in Diagnosing the Etiology of Fever in Infants Younger Than 3 Months

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