Elena Calvo-González

ORCID: 0000-0002-7908-6104
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Research Areas
  • Race, Genetics, and Society
  • Race, Identity, and Education in Brazil
  • Anthropological Studies and Insights
  • Indigenous Health and Education
  • History of Medicine and Tropical Health
  • Literature, Culture, and Criticism
  • Migration, Racism, and Human Rights
  • Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Caribbean history, culture, and politics
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Urban Development and Societal Issues
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Religion and Society in Latin America
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Politics and Society in Latin America
  • Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
  • Iron Metabolism and Disorders

Universidade Federal da Bahia
2010-2019

Hospital Ana Nery
2010-2017

Universidade Federal de São Paulo
2011

Resumo Este artigo analisa a relação entre discursos médicos e noções cotidianas sobre raça, população nação. Para isso, tomo como estudo de caso comparação o uso dessas categorias na produção artigos acadêmicos dois renomados hematologistas brasileiros presença hemoglobinas variantes patológicas no Brasil compreensão que famílias pacientes diagnosticados com doença falciforme têm mesmas questões. A permite mostrar não só os da medicina influenciam modo questões relacionadas raça...

10.1590/s0104-12902017157821 article PT cc-by Saúde e Sociedade 2017-03-01

Debates surrounding race in Brazil have become increasingly fraught recent years as the once hegemonic concept of racial democracy (democracia racial) continues to be subject an ever more agnostic scrutiny. Parallel these debates, and yet ultimately inseparable from them, is question what it "white." In this interdisciplinary paper, we argue that whiteness has established Brazilian public discourse a naturalized category. Seeking fresh perspective on perceive sterile debate, examine Machado...

10.1353/lar.2013.0046 article EN Latin American Research Review 2013-01-01

Através da análise etnográfica aplicação tecnologia de medição pressão arterial nas consultas médicas em um centro médico público na cidade Salvador, proponho pensar a articulação do processo objetificação corpo com o universo experiência, tanto médicos quanto pacientes. Atentarei para maneira como os atores envolvidos aplicam no encontro clínico conhecimentos provindos cotidiano e âmbito Biomedicina, sinalizando controle Hipertensão é produzido por, por sua vez produz, corpos que vivenciam...

10.1590/s0103-49792011000100006 article PT cc-by Caderno CRH 2011-04-01

The article discusses the link between use of low-complexity biotechnologies and diverse notions "care" involved in process diagnosing sickle cell disease. It analyses stories four different patients their families, all collected during ethnographic fieldwork, that illustrate several aspects experience living with condition. These demonstrate presence what Mol called "logic care," showing how everyday diagnostic technology is set within life flows relate to other realms biomedicine, kinship...

10.1590/s0104-59702016000100006 article EN cc-by História Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos 2016-03-01

The anthropological discussion on race and racial classification in Brazil has been recently renewed the context of debates regarding implementation affirmative action policies. Through analysis a case study ideas that sickle-cell disease patients their relatives city Salvador, Bahia, have race, appearance ancestry, this paper aims to understand impact policies everyday understanding these categories. We draw attention interfaces between new discourses previous notions, emphasizing need take...

10.1590/s0034-77012010000100008 article EN DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) 2010-01-01

The historical role of biomedicine in shaping and legitimising ideas race Brazil has long been documented. Much less discussed, however, is how contemporary helps recreate notions race. In this article I explore some the uses race, particularly whiteness, current biomedical research, using as a case study articles published on prevalence haemoglobinopathies, including sickle cell anaemia β‐Thalassaemia. One can only properly understand features these texts by pointing to links between about...

10.1111/blar.12371 article EN Bulletin of Latin American Research 2015-07-03

Neste artigo examino como geneticistas contemporâneos que pesquisam a história e configuração da população brasileira interagem com outras disciplinas. Para tanto, tomei estudo de caso artigos publicados por investigam presença variantes hemoglobina S no Brasil, os quais pretendem claramente contribuir para análise questões escravidão ou identidade étnica país. Contrastando esses estudos trabalhos das ciências sociais, problematizo centralidade explanatória “origem” nos genéticos analisados,...

10.1590/s0104-59702014000400003 article PT cc-by História Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos 2014-12-01

This article focuses on how whiteness, in the process of being (re)enacted its different everyday versions, becomes invisibilised at certain moments while reappearing others as overly present. The borrows Widmer's metaphor race two types ‘watermarks’, that a banknote stands to confirm authenticity when needed, and marks left by glasses wooden surface. idea is consider experiences early 20th‐century Galician immigrants city Salvador, Brazil. I argue understanding this (in)visibility helps us...

10.1111/1469-8676.12669 article EN Social Anthropology 2019-08-02

Esse artigo analisa o uso de noções “cultura negra”, “raça” e “an- cestralidade” nos programas relacionados à política pública denominada “Saúde da População Negra” na cidade Salvador, Bahia. Implementadas a partir meados década 2000, essas políticas têm como fundamenta- ção objetivo redução iniquidades raciais, estatisticamente aferidas, em indicadores saúde acesso aos serviços atenção saúde, com ações difusão conhecimento sobre doenças tidas características “população treinamento...

10.13102/cl.v14i1.1460 article PT cc-by-nc-sa A Cor das Letras 2017-02-22

This article explores the intersection between low-complexity biomedical technologies and ideas about race in Brazil. Using ethnographic material collected Northeastern city of Salvador, on clinical management low white blood cell count (leukopenia), debates involving doctors, scientists social movement activists establishing racialised parameters complete tests, I explore how notion normalcy is connected to racial difference. Taken both at a population individual bodily level, serves...

10.3389/fsoc.2019.00075 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Sociology 2019-11-29
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