Vincanne Adams, PhD
Professor
Humanities & Social Sciences
School of Medicine

I have published on a range of topics, including ethnomedicine and global health, the politics of medical knowledge, post disaster climate harm, metrics, safe motherhood, social justice, agrochemical industries and academic capitalism. My research has been funded by the NIH, NIMC, NICHHD, NSF, The Wenner Gren Foundation, The Fulbright Foundation, and the UC Humanities Research Institute. I received The Basham Medal, the Distinction in Teaching Award, and some of my books have been shortlisted for awards. I was editor for Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and have served on the Editorial Boards for several Medical and Cultural Anthropology journals. I co-edit the book series with Duke University Press called Critical Global Health (with Joao Beihl). Alongwith numerous peer reviewed articles, I have authored or co-authored 9 books, including: Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas (Princeton 2006) Doctors for Democracy: The Role of Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution (Cambridge 1998) Sex In Development: Science, Sexuality and Morality in Global Perspective (with Stacy L. Pigg, editors, Duke 2005) Medicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds (with Sienna Craig and Mona Schrempf, editors, Berghahn Press 2010) Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina (Duke 2014) Metrics: What Counts in Global Health (Duke University Press, 2017) What's Making Our Children Sick?(with Michelle Perro, co-authors, Chelsea Green Publishers, 2018) Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agrochemical on the Move (Duke, 2023) Arc of Interference: Anthropology for Worlds on Edge (with Joao Biehl, editors, Duke 2023)

• INTRODUCTION.
  Arc of Interference 2023 João Biehl, Vincanne Adams
• 1 From Blossoms.
  Glyphosate and the Swirl 2022 Vincanne Adams
• 2 Building the Food Chemosphere.
  Glyphosate and the Swirl 2022 Vincanne Adams
• 3 Ontological Multiplicity & Glyphosate’s Safety.
  Glyphosate and the Swirl 2022 Vincanne Adams
• 4 Chemical Life, Clinical Encounters.
  Glyphosate and the Swirl 2022 Vincanne Adams
• 5 The Scientific Consensus & the Counterfactual.
  Glyphosate and the Swirl 2022 Vincanne Adams
• 6 Consensuses, Academic Capitalism & the Swirl.
  Glyphosate and the Swirl 2022 Vincanne Adams
• 7 Glyphosate Becomes an Activist.
  Glyphosate and the Swirl 2022 Vincanne Adams
• 8 Chemicals as Agents of Care.
  Glyphosate and the Swirl 2022 Vincanne Adams
• Building the Food Chemosphere.
  Glyphosate and the Swirl 2022 Vincanne Adams
• Chemical Life, Clinical Encounters.
  Glyphosate and the Swirl 2022 Vincanne Adams
• Chemicals as Agents of Care.
  Glyphosate and the Swirl 2022 Vincanne Adams
• Consensuses, Academic Capitalism & the Swirl.
  Glyphosate and the Swirl 2022 Vincanne Adams
• From Blossoms.
  Glyphosate and the Swirl 2022 Vincanne Adams
• Glyphosate Becomes an Activist.
  Glyphosate and the Swirl 2022 Vincanne Adams
• Ontological Multiplicity & Glyphosate’s Safety.
  Glyphosate and the Swirl 2022 Vincanne Adams
• The Scientific Consensus & the Counterfactual.
  Glyphosate and the Swirl 2022 Vincanne Adams
• Chapter 1 Introduction: Medicine in Translation between Science and Religion.
  2022 Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf, Sienna R. Craig
• Chapter 5 A Tibetan Way of Science: Revisioning Biomedicine as Tibetan Practice.
  2022 Vincanne Adams, Renchen Dhondup, Phuoc V. Le
• The Production of Self and Body in Sherpa-Tibetan Society1.
  2021 Vincanne Adams
• BOOK: Glyphosate and the Swirl (Duke University Press)
  BOOK: Glyphosate and the Swirl (Duke University Press) 2021 Vincanne Adams
• Climate disasters and global social medicine.
  Lancet (London, England) 2021 Adams V, Garcia S, Jones DS
• Revitalising global social medicine.
  Lancet (London, England) 2021 Pentecost M, Adams V, Baru R, Caduff C, Greene JA, Hansen H, Jones DS, Kitanaka J, Ortega F
• It Takes More Than a Village: Building a Network of Safety in Nepal’s Mountain Communities.
  2021 Vincanne Adams, Sienna R. Craig, Arlene Samen, Surya Bhatta
• 4 Against Global Health? Arbitrating Science, Non-Science, and Nonsense through Health.
  2021 Vincanne Adams
• 13 Neoliberal Futures.
  2020 Vincanne Adams
• Governing through Blood: Biology, Donation, and Exchange in Urban China.
  2020 Vincanne Adams, Kathleen Erwin, Phouc V. Le
• Medical Anthropology in the Time of COVID-19.
  Medical anthropology quarterly 2020 Adams V, Nading A
• Moral Orgasm and Productive Sex: Tantrism Faces Fertility Control in Lhasa, Tibet (China.
  2020 vincanne adams
• 1. METRICS OF THE GLOBAL SOVEREIGN. Numbers and Stories in Global Health.
  2020 Vincanne Adams
• Epilogue: What Counts in Good Global Health?.
  2020 Vincanne Adams
• Introduction.
  2020 Vincanne Adams
• 34. “Tibet on Fire”: Self-Immolation, Affect, and the Global “N of 1”.
  2019 Vincanne Adams
• Re-imagining global health through social medicine.
  Global public health 2019 Adams V, Behague D, Caduff C, Löwy I, Ortega F
• Neoliberal Futures:.
  2019 Vincanne Adams
• It Takes More than a Village: Building a Network of Safety in Nepal's Mountain Communities.
  Maternal and child health journal 2016 Adams V, Craig S, Samen A, Bhatta S
• Introduction: Ethnomedicine and medical anthropology today, in the case of Tibet.
  Medicine Anthropology Theory | An open-access journal in the anthropology of health illness and medicine 2016 Vincanne Adams
• The work of evidence in critical global health.
  Medicine Anthropology Theory | An open-access journal in the anthropology of health illness and medicine 2016 Joao Biehl, Vincanne Adams
• What is critical global health?.
  Medicine Anthropology Theory | An open-access journal in the anthropology of health illness and medicine 2016 Vincanne Adams
• Metrics of the Global Sovereign.
  2016 Vincanne Adams
• Alternative accounting in maternal and infant global health.
  Global public health 2015 Adams V, Craig SR, Samen A
• Slow research: thoughts for a movement in global health.
  Medical anthropology 2014 Adams V, Burke NJ, Whitmarsh I
• 2. Evidence-Based Global Public Health.
  2013 Vincanne Adams
• A History of International Health Encounters: Diplomacy in Transition.
  2013 Vincanne Adams
• Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa. P. Wenzel Geissler and Catherine Molyneux, eds. New York: Berghahn Books 2011; 498 pp.
  Medical Anthropology Quarterly 2013 Vincanne Adams
• Charity, Philanthrocapitalism, and the Affect Economy.
  2013 Vincanne Adams
• The Making of a Disaster.
  2013 Vincanne Adams
• Le « geste glorieux » du don de sang en unité de travail et les désirs postsocialistes en Chine urbaine.
  Les enjeux du don de sang dans le monde 2012 Kathleen Erwin, Vincanne Adams, Phuoc Le
• The Other Road to Serfdom: Recovery by the Market and the Affect Economy in New Orleans.
  Public Culture 2012 Vincanne Adams
• Ethnography and the making of modern health professionals.
  Culture, medicine and psychiatry 2011 Adams V, Kaufman SR
• Aging disaster: mortality, vulnerability, and long-term recovery among Katrina survivors.
  Medical anthropology 2011 Adams V, Kaufman SR, van Hattum T, Moody S
• "There is such a thing as too many daughters, but not too many sons": A qualitative study of son preference and fetal sex selection among Indian immigrants in the United States.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2011 Puri S, Adams V, Ivey S, Nachtigall RD
• Encounters with Efficacy.
  Asian Medicine 2010 Vincanne Adams
• Governing through Blood.
  2010 Vincanne Adams, Kathleen Erwin, Phouc V. Le
• Chronic disaster syndrome: Displacement, disaster capitalism, and the eviction of the poor from New Orleans.
  American ethnologist 2009 Adams V, VAN Hattum T, English D
• Anticipation: Technoscience, life, affect, temporality.
  Subjectivity 2009 Vincanne Adams, Michelle Murphy, Adele E Clarke
• Glorious Deeds: Work Unit Blood Donation and Postsocialist Desires in Urban China.
  Body & Society 2009 Kathleen Erwin, Vincanne Adams, Phuoc Le
• Public health works: blood donation in urban China.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2008 Adams V, Erwin K, Le PV
• Global health diplomacy.
  Medical anthropology 2008 Adams V, Novotny TE, Leslie H
• Global Pharma in the Land of Snows: Tibetan Medicines, SARS, and Identity Politics Across Nations.
  Asian Medicine 2008 Vincanne Adams, Sienna Craig
• Informed Consent in cross-cultural perspective: clinical research in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, PRC.
  Culture, medicine and psychiatry 2007 Adams V, Miller S, Craig S, Le PV, Varner M
• How to make consent informed: possible lessons from Tibet.
  IRB 2007 Miller S, Le PV, Craig S, Adams V, Tudor C, Tshomo M, Varner M
• The Tibetans . Matthew T. Kapstein.
  The China Journal 2007 Vincanne Adams
• Integrating Abstraction: Modernising Medicine At Lhasa's Mentsikhang.
  2007 Vincanne Adams
• Having a "safe delivery": conflicting views from Tibet.
  Health care for women international 2005 Adams V, Miller S, Chertow J, Craig S, Samen A, Varner M
• The challenge of cross-cultural clinical trials research: case report from the Tibetan Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China.
  Medical anthropology quarterly 2005 Adams V, Miller S, Craig S, Samen A, Varner M
• Contestations of Liberal Humanism Forged in Sexual Identity Politics.
  2005 Vincanne Adams, Michele Rivkin-Fish
• The Creation of Normativities as a Biopolitical Project.
  2005 Vincanne Adams, Michele Rivkin-Fish
• The Production of New Subjectivities.
  2005 Vincanne Adams, Michele Rivkin-Fish
• Introduction.
  2005 Stacy Leigh Pigg, Vincanne Adams
• Moral Orgasm and Productive Sex.
  2005 Vincanne Adams
• Saving Tibet? An inquiry into modernity, lies, truths, and beliefs.
  Medical anthropology 2005 Adams V
• Equity of the Ineffable: Cultural and Political Constraints on Ethnomedicine as a Health Problem in Contemporary Tibet.
  Public Health, Ethics, and Equity 2004 Vincanne Adams
• Society for Cultural Anthropology.
  Anthropology News 2003 Bonnie Urciuoli, Vincanne Adams
• Society for Medical Anthropology.
  Anthropology News 2003 Nancy Vuckovic, Janelle Taylor, Vincanne Adams
• Randomized Controlled Crime.
  Social Studies of Science 2002 Vincanne Adams
• Randomized Controlled Crime: Postcolonial Sciences in Alternative Medicine Research.
  Social Studies of Science 2002 Vincanne Adams
• Ultrasonographic diagnosis of pelvic echinococcosis: case report and review of the literature.
  Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine 2002 Ranzini AC, Hale DC, Phentok L, Adams V
• Establishing proof.
  2002 Vincanne Adams
• Social Suffering.
  American Anthropologist 1998 Vincanne Adams
• Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas: An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters.
  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1997 David Holmberg, Vincanne Adams
• Dreams of a Final Sherpa.
  American Anthropologist 1997 Vincanne Adams
• APPENDIX A Khentse Rinpoche Lecture, Tengboche 1987.
  Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas 1996 Vincanne Adams
• APPENDIX B Excerpts from "The Stages of Repelling Demons Based on the Heart Sutra, the Summary of the Vast, Intermediate, and Condensed Mothers".
  Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas 1996 Vincanne Adams
• APPENDIX C Musings on Textuality and Truth.
  Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas 1996 Vincanne Adams
• APPENDIX D Production/Seduction.
  Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas 1996 Vincanne Adams
• Bibliography.
  Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas 1996 Vincanne Adams
• CHAPTER FIVE Seduction and Simulative Power in the Himalayas : Staying Sherpa.
  Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas 1996 Vincanne Adams
• CHAPTER FOUR The Intimacy of Shamanic Sherpas.
  Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas 1996 Vincanne Adams
• CHAPTER ONE Sherpas in Mirrors.
  Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas 1996 Vincanne Adams
• CHAPTER THREE Buddhist Sherpas as Others.
  Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas 1996 Vincanne Adams
• CHAPTER TWO Making Modern Sherpas.
  Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas 1996 Vincanne Adams
• CONCLUSION Virtual Sherpas in Circulation.
  Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas 1996 Vincanne Adams
• Glossary of Sherpa Terms.
  Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas 1996 Vincanne Adams
• INTRODUCTION Lament for Pasang.
  Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas 1996 Vincanne Adams
• Illustrations.
  Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas 1996 Vincanne Adams
• Orthographic Note.
  Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas 1996 Vincanne Adams
• Karaoke as Modern Lhasa, Tibet: Western Encounters with Cultural Politics.
  Cultural Anthropology 1996 Vincanne Adams
• Moral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City: An Exploration of Mind, Emotion, and Self. By Steven M. Parish. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. xii, 342 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $17.50 (paper). - The Rulings of the Night: Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts. By Gregory G. Maskarinec. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xi, 276 pp. $65.50 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). - The Householder's World: Purity, Power, and Dominance in a Nepali Village. By John N. Gray. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. xv, 302 pp. Rs 450 (cloth).
  The Journal of Asian Studies 1996 Vincanne Adams
• Claiming the High Ground: Sherpas, Subsistence, and Environmental Change in the Highest Himalaya. STANLEY F. STEVENS.
  American Ethnologist 1996 VINCANNE ADAMS
• Tourism and Sherpas, Nepal Reconstruction of reciprocity.
  Annals of Tourism Research 1992 Vincanne Adams
• BOOK: (in Progress) Preoccupied: Life Under Surveillance in Tibet
  BOOK: (in Progress) Preoccupied: Life Under Surveillance in Tibet Vincanne Adams
• BOOK: Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution Cambridge University Press (Series in Medical Anthropology), 1998
  BOOK: Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution Cambridge University Press (Series in Medical Anthropology), 1998 Vincanne Adams
• BOOK: Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina Duke University Press 2013
  BOOK: Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina Duke University Press 2013 Vincanne Adams
• BOOK: Medicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Ground London: Berghahn Publishers 2010
  BOOK: Medicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Ground London: Berghahn Publishers 2010 Vincanne Adams, Sienna Craig and Mona Schrempf
• BOOK: Metrics: What Counts in Global Health Duke University Press 2016
  BOOK: Metrics: What Counts in Global Health Duke University Press 2016 Vincanne Adams, ed.
• BOOK: Sex and Development: Science, Sexuality and Morality in Global Perspective Durham: Duke University Press 2005
  BOOK: Sex and Development: Science, Sexuality and Morality in Global Perspective Durham: Duke University Press 2005. Vincanne Adams and Stacy L. Pigg
• BOOK: Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas: An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters Princeton University Press, 1996
  BOOK: Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas: An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters Princeton University Press, 1996 Vincanne Adams
• BOOK: What's Making Our Children Sick? How Industrial Food is causing an epidemic of chronic illness and what parents (and their doctors) can do about it. Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishers, 2018
  BOOK: What's Making Our Children Sick? How Industrial Food is causing an epidemic of chronic illness and what parents (and their doctors) can do about it. Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishers, 2018. Michelle Perro and Vincanne Adams