朱莉-利文斯顿 公共卫生历史学家和人类学家

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Julie Livingston
Public Health Historian and Anthropologist | Class of 2013
Combining archival research and ethnographic observation to illuminate largely ignored crises of care in both the developing and developed world.


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Title
Public Health Historian and Anthropologist
Affiliation
Rutgers University
Location
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Age
46 at time of award
Area of Focus
Cultural Anthropology, African History
Website
New York University: Julie Livingston
Published September 25, 2013
ABOUT JULIE'S WORK
Julie Livingston is a medical historian who combines archival research with ethnography to explore the care and treatment of individuals suffering from chronic illnesses and debilitating ailments in Botswana, a middle-income country with a system of universal health care. Drawing on her interdisciplinary training in anthropology and public health, Livingston augments the history of medicine with a history of emotions, spotlighting the bodily vulnerability of populations facing the challenges of twenty-first-century political and economic development.

Her descriptions of the adaptive responses of caregivers and communities in Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana (2005) illuminates how traditional healing and caregiving practices have been reshaped and reconfigured by regional political and economic dislocation and Western biomedical ideas and techniques. In Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic (2012), Livingston tracks Botswana’s rapidly emerging cancer epidemic by documenting the daily medical ordeals of patients and caregivers in the country’s public oncology ward. On this stage, European and African doctors and African nurses improvise with patients and their relatives to treat horrific wounds, manage acute pain, and mediate terminal illness in the face of language barriers, cultural differences, inadequate staffing, obsolete equipment and technologies, and limited supplies of critical resources.

By unflinchingly detailing an over-extended medical infrastructure and the families and health care providers who navigate it, Livingston exposes the limits of biomedicine and the unlikelihood that technology alone will fix health issues in Africa or anywhere else. Such in-depth examination of physical impairment and terminal disability is challenging global health partners to address a very real but largely ignored crisis of care in Africa, and Livingston is poised to begin a new project about suicide in New York City that promises additional fresh and enduring insights into pressing public health concerns.

BIOGRAPHY
Julie Livingston received a B.A. (1989) from Tufts University, an M.A. (1992) and M.P.H. (1993) from Boston University, and a Ph.D. (2001) from Emory University. She was affiliated with the Federated History Department of the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark (2002–2003), before joining the faculty of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, in 2003, where she is a professor in the Department of History. She is the co-editor of Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine’s Simple Solutions (2010), as well as numerous articles and book chapters.



朱莉-利文斯顿
公共卫生历史学家和人类学家 | 2013级
结合档案研究和人种学观察，阐明发展中国家和发达国家中基本被忽视的护理危机。


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标题
公共卫生历史学家和人类学家
工作单位
罗格斯大学
工作地点
新泽西州新布朗斯维克
年龄
获奖时46岁
重点领域
文化人类学，非洲历史
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纽约大学。朱莉-利文斯顿
发表于2013年9月25日
关于朱莉的工作
朱莉-利文斯顿是一位医学史学家，她将档案研究与人种学结合起来，探讨在博茨瓦纳这个拥有全民医疗保健系统的中等收入国家，对患有慢性病和衰弱性疾病的个人的护理和治疗。利文斯顿利用她在人类学和公共卫生方面的跨学科培训，用情感史来增加医学史，突出了面临二十一世纪政治和经济发展挑战的人群的身体脆弱性。

她在《博茨瓦纳的衰弱与道德想象》（Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana）一书中描述了护理人员和社区的适应性反应，阐明了传统的治疗和护理做法是如何被地区政治和经济的混乱以及西方生物医学思想和技术所重塑和重新配置的。在《即兴医学》中。在《即兴医学：新兴癌症流行中的非洲肿瘤病房》（2012）中，利文斯顿通过记录病人和护理人员在该国公共肿瘤病房的日常医疗折磨，追踪了博茨瓦纳迅速出现的癌症流行。在这个舞台上，欧洲和非洲的医生和护士与病人及其亲属一起即兴表演，以治疗可怕的伤口，控制急性疼痛，并在语言障碍、文化差异、人员配备不足、设备和技术陈旧以及关键资源供应有限的情况下调解绝症。

利文斯顿毫不留情地详述了过度扩张的医疗基础设施以及驾驭它的家庭和医疗服务提供者，揭露了生物医学的局限性，以及在非洲或其他地方仅靠技术就能解决健康问题的可能性。这种对身体损伤和晚期残疾的深入研究正在挑战全球健康合作伙伴，以解决非洲非常真实但在很大程度上被忽视的护理危机，利文斯顿准备开始一个关于纽约市自杀的新项目，有望对紧迫的公共健康问题有更多新鲜和持久的洞察力。

个人简历
朱莉-利文斯顿在塔夫茨大学获得学士学位（1989年），在波士顿大学获得文学硕士（1992年）和公共卫生硕士（1993年），并在埃默里大学获得博士学位（2001年）。她曾隶属于新泽西理工学院和罗格斯大学纽瓦克分校的联邦历史系（2002-2003年），然后于2003年加入罗格斯大学新布朗斯维克分校的教师队伍，是历史系的教授。她是《预防的三针》的共同编辑。人乳头瘤病毒疫苗和医学简单解决方案的政治》（2010年），以及许多文章和书籍章节的共同编辑。