Naomi Adelson
Department of
Anthropology
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Selected Bibliography:

Scholarly Books

 

2013Troubling Natural Categories: Engaging the Medical Anthropology of Margaret Lock. Naomi Adelson, Leslie Butt and Karina Kielmann, eds. McGill-Queen's University
2000 “Being Alive Well”: Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being. University of Toronto Press (Reprinted 2002, 2004), 141pp.

 

Articles (Refereed)

 

2013 Naomi Adelson and Michele Olding. "Narrating Aboriginality On-Line: Digital Storytelling, Identity and Healing." Journal of Community Informatics 9(2). e-Journal:
2012 Lisa Schwartz, Matthew Hunt, Chris Sinding, Laurie Elit, Lynda Redwood-Campbell, Naomi Adelson, Sonya deLaat. 'Models for Humanitarian Health Care Ethics.' Public Health Ethics 5(1): 81-90. doi: 10.1093/phe/phs005
2010 Schwartz, Lisa, Sinding, Christina, Hunt, Matthew, Elit, Laurie, Redwood-Campbell, Lynda, Adelson, Naomi, Luther, Lori, Ranford, Jennifer and DeLaat, Sonya. 'Ethics in Humanitarian Aid Work: Learning From the Narratives of Humanitarian Health Workers', AJOB Primary Research, 1(3): 45-54.
2008 Discourses of Stress, Social Inequities, and the Everyday Worlds of First Nations Women in a Remote Northern Canadian Community. Ethos 36(3): 316-333.
2005 La Souffrance Collective : Une Analyse Anthropologique De L’Incarnation D’Injustice. (Trans. Sophie Desjardins) Revue québécoise de psychologie 26(2): 111-127.
2005 “The Embodiment of Inequity: Health Disparities in Aboriginal Canada”. Canadian Journal of Public Health (March-April). Vol 96 (Supplement 2): S45-60.
2000 Re-imagining Aboriginality: An Indigenous Peoples’ Response to Social Suffer­ing.” Transcultural Psychiatry 37(1): 11-34.
2000 “Psychological Distress Among the Cree of James Bay.” Co-authored with L. Kirmayer, L.J. Boothroyd, A. Tanner, and E. Robinson. Transcultural Psychiatry 37(1): 35-56.
1998 “Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being.” Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 2(1): 5-22

 

Articles (Non-Refereed)

 

2011 Graham, Janice, Naomi Adelson, Sylvie Fortin, Gilles Bibeau, Margaret Lock, Sandra Hyde, Mary Ellen Macdonald, Ignace Olazabal, Peter Stephenson, and James Waldram. “The End of Medical Anthropology in Canada? A Manifesto.” University Affairs. March 2011.
2010 “The Fit of Health: The Embodiment of an Ideal and its Implications.” In: Illness, Bodies, Contexts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Isabelle Lange & Zoe Norridge, eds. Oxford: Inter-disciplinary Press, 49-56
2007 “Biomedical Approach a Poor Fit with Aboriginal Views on Health and Healing.” Canadian Psychiatry Aujourd’hui. February 2007, Vol 3(1): 10.

 

Chapters in Books

 

2013 Margaret Lock and Medical Anthropology, co-authored with Leslie Butt and Karina Kielmann. In: Troubling Natural Categories: Engaging the Medical Anthropology of Margaret Lock. Naomi Adelson, Leslie Butt and Karina Kielmann, eds. McGill-Queen's University Press.
2013 Digital Landscapes of Health. In: Troubling Natural Categories: Engaging the Medical Anthropology of Margaret Lock. Naomi Adelson, Leslie Butt and Karina Kielmann, eds. McGill-Queen's University Press.
  Inequalities and Health Care. In: Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior and Society, William C. Cockerham, Robert Dingwall, & Stella Quah, eds. Wiley- Blackwell. Accepted for publication, January 2013.
2013 Lisa Schwartz, Matthew Hunt, Christina Sinding, Laurie Elit, Lynda Redwood-Campbell, Naomi Adelson, Sonya De Laat, Jennifer Ranford. La déontologie des activités cliniques occidentales est-elle applicable aux contextes humanitaires a l'étranger? In: Jeux de Miroir: Réflexions sur MSF et l'action humanitaire, Caroline Abu-Sada, ed. Antipodes: Lausanne, Switzerland, 77-92. (French version of: Western clinical health ethics: How well do they travel to humanitarian contexts?)
2012 Western Clinical Health Ethics: How Well do they Travel to Humanitarian Contexts? Co-authored with: Lisa Schwartz, Matthew Hunt, Chris Sinding, Laurie Elit, Lynda Redwood-Campbell, Sonya De Laat, Jennifer Ranford. In: Dilemmas, Challenges and Ethics of Humanitarian Action: Reflections on Médicins San Frontières' Perception Project, Caroline Abu-Sada, ed. McGill-Queen's UP, 73-88
2012 Cree Communications Technologies Past and Present. In: Aboriginal History: A Reader, Kristin Burnett and Geoffrey Read, eds. Oxford University Press.
2009 Towards a Recuperation of Souls and Bodies: Community Healing and the Complex Interplay of Faith and History. In: The Mental Health of Canadian Aboriginal Peoples: Transformations of Identity and Community, Gail Valaskakis and Laurence Kirmayer, eds. Vancouver: UBC Press. Pp. 272-288.
2008 Models and Metaphors of Healing in a Maritime First Nations Community. (with Amanda Lipinski) In: James Waldram, ed. Aboriginal Healing in Canada: Studies in Therapeutic Meaning and Practice. Montreal: Aboriginal Healing Foundation, pp. 9-30.
2008 The Shifting Landscape of Cree Well-Being. In: Pursuits of Happiness: Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective. Gordon Matthews and Carolina Izquierdo, eds. Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 109-123.
2006 Visible / Human / Project: Visibility and Invisibility at the Next Anatomical Frontier. In: Figuring it Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture. Ann B. Shteir and B. Lightman, eds. University Press of New England, 358-376.
2005 Appreciation of the Goose: The Relationship Between of Food, Gender and Respect amongst the Iiyiyu’ch of Great Whale, Québec. In: Gendered Intersections: An Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies. Lesley Biggs and Pamela Downe, eds. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, pp. 276-279.
2003 "Cree." In: Encyclopaedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures. Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, eds. Kluwer/Plenum Press, 614-622.
2003 Kirmayer, L. J., Boothroyd, L. J., Tanner, A., Adelson, N. & Robinson, E. Psychological distress among the Cree of James Bay. In: P. Boss (ed.), Family Stress: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 249-264. (Reprint of article.)
2001 “Re-imagining Aboriginality: An Indigenous People’s Response to Social Suffer­ing.” In: Remaking A World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery, Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman, Margaret Lock, Mamphela Ramphele, Pamela Reynolds, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 76-101. (Expanded version of TP article.)
2001 “Gathering Knowledge: Reflections on the Anthropology of Identity, Aboriginality, and the Annual Gatherings in Whapmagoostui, Quebec.” In: Aboriginal Autonomy and Development in Northern Quebec and Labrador. Colin Scott, ed. Vancouver: University of British Colum­bia Press, pp. 289-303.

 

Papers in Published Conference Proceedings

 

2007 “Troubling the ‘Natural’ Category of Health: Revisiting the Embodied Discourse of Cree Well-Being”. “Troubling ‘Natural’ Categories”: A Festschrift for Margaret Lock. Proceedings of the Canadian Anthropology Society Symposium, May 2007. Naomi Adelson and Pamela Wakewich, eds. Toronto: Department of Anthropology, York University. CD-ROM publication ISBN 978-1-55014-489-5.
2001 "Introduction." In: Regeneration and Medical History: The Implications of Fictionalized Medicine for Teaching, Research and Scholarship Conference Proceedings. M. Nahman, N. Adelson, G. Feldberg, eds. Toronto: York Centre for Health Studies.
2000 “Towards a Recuperation of Souls and Bodies: Community Healing and the Complex Interplay of Faith and History.” In: The Mental Health of Indigenous Peoples: Proceedings of the Advanced Study Institute: The Mental Health of Indigenous Peoples (McGill Summer Programme in Social and Cultural Psychiatry). L.J. Kirmayer, M.E. MacDonald, G.M. Brass, eds. Montreal: Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Report #10.
1998 “Social Health and Community Healing.” In: Widening the Circle: Collaborative Research for Mental Health Promotion in Native Communities. Proceedings of the Conference: Widening the Circle: Developing Partnerships for Aboriginal Mental Health. Caroline Oblin, Laurence J. Kirmayer, Kathryn Gill, and Elizabeth Robinson, eds. Montreal, QC: Culture and Mental Health Research Unity Report No. 8., pp. 79-83.

 

 

 
   
   
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