Risk and the importance of absent symptoms in constructions of the ‘cancer candidate’ (2022)
Journal Article
Dobson, C., Russell, A., Brown, S., & Rubin, G. (2022). Risk and the importance of absent symptoms in constructions of the ‘cancer candidate’. Health, Risk and Society, 24(5-6), 225-240. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698575.2022.2104222

Cancer is a disease that is imbued with notions of risk, with individuals expected to avoid ‘risky’ behaviours and act swiftly when symptoms indicating a risk of cancer emerge. Cancer symptoms, however, are often ambiguous and indicative of a number... Read More about Risk and the importance of absent symptoms in constructions of the ‘cancer candidate’.

Implementing FCTC Article 17 through Participatory Research with Bidi Workers in Tamil Nadu, India (2022)
Journal Article
Russell, A., Chandra, P., Robson, M., Narayanan, P., Joseph, S., Mukherjee, P., …John, S. (2022). Implementing FCTC Article 17 through Participatory Research with Bidi Workers in Tamil Nadu, India. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 24(11), 1714-1719. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntac075

Introduction: The exploitation, poor conditions and precarity in the bidi (hand-rolled leaf cigarette) industry in India makes it ripe for the application of the FCTC’s Article 17, ‘Provision of support for economically viable alternative activities’... Read More about Implementing FCTC Article 17 through Participatory Research with Bidi Workers in Tamil Nadu, India.

Public & private accounts of help-seeking: The implications of research methods on the presentation of narratives (2021)
Journal Article
Dobson, C., Russell, A., Brown, S., & Rubin, G. (2022). Public & private accounts of help-seeking: The implications of research methods on the presentation of narratives. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 25(4), 483-493. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2021.1904116

For people with symptoms that could indicate cancer, prompt presentation to a health care practitioner facilitates early diagnosis, improves survival, and is encouraged by public health agencies and cancer charities. Nevertheless, time to presentatio... Read More about Public & private accounts of help-seeking: The implications of research methods on the presentation of narratives.

Dance for people with chronic breathlessness: a transdisciplinary approach to intervention development (2020)
Journal Article
Harrison, S., Bierski, K., Burn, N., Mclusky, S., McFaull, V., Russell, A., …Macnaughton, J. (2020). Dance for people with chronic breathlessness: a transdisciplinary approach to intervention development. BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 7(1), Article e000696. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2020-000696

Objectives: A transdisciplinary research approach was used to develop a holistic understanding of the physical and psychosocial benefits of dance as an intervention for people living with chronic breathlessness. Methods: The dance programme was devel... Read More about Dance for people with chronic breathlessness: a transdisciplinary approach to intervention development.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World (2020)
Journal Article
Oxley, R., & Russell, A. (2020). Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World. Body & Society, 26(2), 3-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034x20913103

Breath, the ephemeral materialization of air at the interface of body and world, engages with and alters the quality of both. As a process of inhalation and exhalation that signals its physiological universality, breath is an invisible prerequisite f... Read More about Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World.

Anthropology of Tobacco: Ethnographic Adventures in Non-human Worlds (2019)
Book
Russell, A. (2019). Anthropology of Tobacco: Ethnographic Adventures in Non-human Worlds. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351050197

Tobacco has become one of the most widely used and traded commoditites on the planet. Reflecting contemporary anthropological interest in material culture studies, Anthropology of Tobacco makes the plant the centre of its own, contentious, global sto... Read More about Anthropology of Tobacco: Ethnographic Adventures in Non-human Worlds.

Can the plant speak? Giving tobacco the voice it deserves (2018)
Journal Article
Russell, A. (2018). Can the plant speak? Giving tobacco the voice it deserves. Journal of Material Culture, 23(4), 472-487. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183518799516

The idea of non-human objects speaking has an illustrious pedigree. Using Holbraad’s (2011) question ‘can the thing speak?’ as a springboard, the author asks what it means to say that tobacco might speak. Accepting a degree of ventriloquism in giving... Read More about Can the plant speak? Giving tobacco the voice it deserves.

Tobacco (2018)
Book Chapter
Russell, A. (2018). Tobacco. In H. Callan (Ed.), International encyclopedia of anthropology : anthropology beyond text. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1661

The study of the relationship between people and tobacco is of more than ethnobotanical interest; it spans many fundamental issues of current concern for anthropologists in general and for medical anthropologists in particular. These include topics s... Read More about Tobacco.

‘“Imagine a World Without Tobacco”. Utopian visions and collaborative research in public health’ (2018)
Book Chapter
Russell, A. (2018). ‘“Imagine a World Without Tobacco”. Utopian visions and collaborative research in public health’. In R. Blanes, & M. Maskens (Eds.), Utopian encounters : anthropologies of empirical utopias (57-90). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b10556

Smog in a time of tobacco control (2017)
Journal Article
Russell, A. (2017). Smog in a time of tobacco control. Anthropology Today, 33(6), 27-29. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12395

This article reflects on the irony of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control taking place in north India during the worst smog in Delhi's history. It is presented as both a material reminder that tobacco is n... Read More about Smog in a time of tobacco control.

The Quality and Outcomes Framework: Body commodification in UK General Practice (2016)
Journal Article
Norman, A., Russell, A., & Merli, C. (2016). The Quality and Outcomes Framework: Body commodification in UK General Practice. Social Science & Medicine, 170, 77-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.10.009

The UK's Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is the largest pay-for-performance scheme in the world. This ethnographic study explored how QOF's monetary logic influences the approach to healthcare in UK general practice. From August 2013 to April 20... Read More about The Quality and Outcomes Framework: Body commodification in UK General Practice.

What’s ‘difficult’? A multi-stage qualitative analysis of secondary care specialists’ experiences with medically unexplained symptoms (2016)
Journal Article
Maatz, A., Wainwright, M., Russell, A., Macnaughton, J., & Yiannakou, Y. (2016). What’s ‘difficult’? A multi-stage qualitative analysis of secondary care specialists’ experiences with medically unexplained symptoms. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 90, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2016.09.005

Background The term ‘difficult’ is pervasively used in relation to medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) and patients with MUS. This article scrutinises the use of the term by analysing interview data from a study of secondary care specialists' experi... Read More about What’s ‘difficult’? A multi-stage qualitative analysis of secondary care specialists’ experiences with medically unexplained symptoms.

Means and ENDS – e-cigarettes, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and global health diplomacy in action (2016)
Journal Article
Russell, A., Wainwright, M., & Tilson, M. (2018). Means and ENDS – e-cigarettes, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and global health diplomacy in action. Global Public Health, 13(1), 83-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2016.1152284

E-cigarettes are a new and disruptive element in global health diplomacy (GHD) and policy-making. This is an ethnographic account of how e-cigarettes and other Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) were tackled at the 6th Conference of the Part... Read More about Means and ENDS – e-cigarettes, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and global health diplomacy in action.

Documenting Impact: An Impact Case Study of Anthropological Collaboration in Tobacco Control (2015)
Journal Article
Russell, A., & Lewis, S. (2015). Documenting Impact: An Impact Case Study of Anthropological Collaboration in Tobacco Control. Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice, 22(2), 14-23. https://doi.org/10.3167/aia.2015.220203

In this article we consider the 'impact case study' (ICS) as a specific kind of document, one which, as part of the U.K.'s Research Excellence Framework (REF), enforces a common template for the description and measurement of the social and economic... Read More about Documenting Impact: An Impact Case Study of Anthropological Collaboration in Tobacco Control.

Women and smoking in the North East of England (2015)
Book Chapter
Russell, A. (2015). Women and smoking in the North East of England. In J. Bissell, C. Caiado, S. Curtis, M. Goldstein, & B. Straughan (Eds.), Tipping points : modelling social problems and health (32-48). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118992005.ch3

The Master Plant: Tobacco in Lowland South America (2015)
Book
Russell, A., & Rahman, E. (Eds.). (2015). The Master Plant: Tobacco in Lowland South America. Bloomsbury

Described as a 'master plant' by many indigenous groups in lowland South America, tobacco is an essential part of shamanic ritual, as well as a source of everyday health, wellbeing and community. In sharp contrast to the condemnation of the tobacco i... Read More about The Master Plant: Tobacco in Lowland South America.

A chilling example? Uruguay, Phillip Morris International, and WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (2014)
Journal Article
Russell, A., Wainwright, M., & Mamudu, H. (2015). A chilling example? Uruguay, Phillip Morris International, and WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 29(2), 256-277. https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12141

The World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is the first international public health treaty to address the global spread of tobacco products. Ethnographic research at the fourth meeting of the FCTC's Conference of t... Read More about A chilling example? Uruguay, Phillip Morris International, and WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

The making and changing of smoking persons in public health policy and practice: Ethnography of a world-first illicit tobacco program. (2013)
Journal Article
Carro-Ripalda, S., Russell, A., Lewis, S., & Heckler, S. (2013). The making and changing of smoking persons in public health policy and practice: Ethnography of a world-first illicit tobacco program. Contemporary Drug Problems, 40(1), 21-46. https://doi.org/10.1177/009145091304000103

In this ethnographic investigation of an “upstream” public health program to tackle illicit tobacco, we identify various processes by which particular kinds of people—both smokers and nonsmokers—are constituted in public health policies and practice,... Read More about The making and changing of smoking persons in public health policy and practice: Ethnography of a world-first illicit tobacco program..

Love, displacement, and ritual excision: a medical anthropologist gets appendicitis. (2012)
Journal Article
Russell, A. (2012). Love, displacement, and ritual excision: a medical anthropologist gets appendicitis. Medische antropologie, 24(1), 195-206

Young smokers' narratives : public health, disadvantage and structural violence (2012)
Journal Article
Lewis, S., & Russell, A. (2013). Young smokers' narratives : public health, disadvantage and structural violence. Sociology of Health & Illness, 53(3), 746-760. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01527.x

This research article on youth smoking in disadvantaged communities is the product of a qualitative study to understand the issues faced by young smokers – and those trying not to be smokers – in such communities. Environmental factors and peer influ... Read More about Young smokers' narratives : public health, disadvantage and structural violence.