The Big Yes and the Little No

Program for the sixth annual RISD Cabaret held in the cellar at the top of the Waterman Building. Design and layout by Nonie Close.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/liberalarts_cabaret_programs/1005/thumbnail.jp

Here Comes Grosz

Program for the eighth annual RISD Cabaret held in Cellar at the top of the Waterman Building. Publicity, posters, cartoons and program designed by Yoon Cho, Yu-Kyung Chung,Arther Jones, Scott King, Richard Lloyd and Polly Spencer.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/liberalarts_cabaret_programs/1007/thumbnail.jp

Anxiety as a cause of attachment avoidance in women with Turner Syndrome

Working models of attachment are internal depictions of self relative to others and have been described in terms of two dimensions: (1) attachment avoidance and (2) attachment anxiety. An exploratory qualitative study was carried out to build understandings about women with Turner Syndrome (TS) and the psychosocial impact their infertility has upon salient relationships. In one-to-one semi-structured interviews, five women with TS were asked: How do you perceive your womanhood and infertility status has affected your relationships with: (1) the opposite sex, (2) siblings and (3) peers? In opposite-sex relationships, infertility status was found to arouse fear of ending up alone and anxiety over engaging in romantic relationships. In sibling relationships, jealousy was expressed in relation to disparity with sister(s) more natural maturation to womanhood, and, within peer relationships, consequences from divulging infertility status created attachment avoidance with friends. Further investigation in this area is merited

Making Better Numbers through Bioethnographic Collaboration

In this article, I describe my ongoing bioethnographic collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of exposure scientists in environmental engineering and health. First, I explain how and why integrating ethnography and number‐based disciplines is such a complex, time‐consuming, and worthwhile process, when ethnography produces a kind of excessive “big data” that is not easily enumerated. Then I describe three of our current bioethnographic projects that seek to make better numbers about how (1) neighborhoods, (2) water distribution, and (3) employment and chemical exposures shape bodily processes in a highly unequal world. To conclude, I reflect on how we might harness ethnographic excess for making better numbers and thus better knowledge, and also how bioethnographic collaboration inevitably transforms ethnography even as we insist on its excess. [collaboration, methodology, ethnography, big data, biomedical science]RESUMENEn este artículo, describo mi colaboración bioetnográfica en curso con un equipo multidisciplinario de científicos sobre exposición en ingeniera ambiental y salud. Primero, explico cómo y por qué el integrar etnografía y disciplinas basadas en números es un proceso tan complejo, consumidor de tiempo y útil, cuando la etnografía produce una clase de “big data” excesiva que no es enumerada fácilmente. Luego describo tres de nuestros proyectos bioetnográficos actuales que buscan hacer mejores números acerca de cómo (1) vecindarios, (2) distribución de agua, y (3) empleo y exposiciones químicas impactan los procesos corporales en un mundo altamente desigual. Para concluir, reflexiono sobre cómo podríamos aprovechar el exceso etnográfico para hacer mejores números y así un mejor conocimiento, y también cómo la colaboración bioetnográfica transforma inevitablemente la etnografía aun cuando insistimos en su exceso. [colaboración, metodología, etnografía, big data, ciencia biomédica]Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/168432/1/aman13560.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/168432/2/aman13560_am.pd