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Part 1: Tribal Peoples, History and Ethnology (2023)
Journal Article
Simpson, B., Barkhoda, D., & Okely, J. (2023). Part 1: Tribal Peoples, History and Ethnology. Learning and Teaching, 16(3), 4-30. https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2023.160303

Three authors reflect on their conversations and interactions with Sue with particular reference to her fieldwork in south-west Iran in the mid-1970s and how that influenced her subsequent research on community development, organisations and social c... Read More about Part 1: Tribal Peoples, History and Ethnology.

Haptic Mediations: Intergenerational Kinship in the Time of COVID-19 (2020)
Journal Article
Simpson, B. (2020). Haptic Mediations: Intergenerational Kinship in the Time of COVID-19. Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice, 27(3), 22-26. https://doi.org/10.3167/aia.2020.270305

During the COVID-19 crisis, living in lockdown and observing social distancing rules have become an integral part of everyday life. In this article, I offer some auto-ethnographic reflections on the increased use of ICTs within families and particula... Read More about Haptic Mediations: Intergenerational Kinship in the Time of COVID-19.

Global Bioethics: A Story of Dreams and Doubts from Bengal, India (2018)
Journal Article
Simpson, B. (2018). Global Bioethics: A Story of Dreams and Doubts from Bengal, India. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 61(2), 215-229. https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2018.0038

This article is concerned with the practice of bioethics outside of the Euro-American and Anglophone settings in which it was first formulated. In theoretical terms, the article considers the frictions that arise when global-scale projects such as bi... Read More about Global Bioethics: A Story of Dreams and Doubts from Bengal, India.

Data management in anthropology: the next phase in ethics governance? (2018)
Journal Article
Pels, P., Boog, I., Henrike Florusbosch, J., Kripe, Z., Minter, T., Postma, M., Sleeboom-Faulkner, M., Simpson, B., Dilger, H., Schönhuth, M., von Poser, A., Castillo, R. C. A., Lederman, R., & Richards-Rissetto, H. (2018). Data management in anthropology: the next phase in ethics governance?. Social Anthropology, 26(3), 391-413. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12526

Recent demands for accountability in ‘data management’ by funding agencies, universities, international journals and other academic institutions have worried many anthropologists and ethnographers. While their demands for transparency and integrity i... Read More about Data management in anthropology: the next phase in ethics governance?.

Local Virtue and Global Vision: The Practice of Eye donation in contemporary Sri Lanka (2017)
Journal Article
Simpson, R. (2017). Local Virtue and Global Vision: The Practice of Eye donation in contemporary Sri Lanka. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 4(4), 150-170. https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.4.4.316

A death radically rearranges kinship, debt, obligation, and responsibility, and it also triggers prescribed routines for mourning and material disposal of the corpse. It is into this complex and fraught unfolding of events that the rhetorics of corpo... Read More about Local Virtue and Global Vision: The Practice of Eye donation in contemporary Sri Lanka.

A “we” problem for bioethics and the social sciences: A response to Barbara Prainsack (2017)
Journal Article
Simpson, B. (2018). A “we” problem for bioethics and the social sciences: A response to Barbara Prainsack. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 43(1), 45-55. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243917735899

In her article “The We in the Me: Solidarity in the Era of Personalized Medicine,” Barbara Prainsack develops an earlier interest in the relationship between solidarity and autonomy and the way that these notions operate once passed through the lens... Read More about A “we” problem for bioethics and the social sciences: A response to Barbara Prainsack.

The formalization of social-science research ethics: How did we get there? (2017)
Journal Article
Sleeboom-Faulkner, M., Simpson, R., Burgos-Martinez, E., & McMurray, J. (2017). The formalization of social-science research ethics: How did we get there?. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 7(1), 71-79. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau7.1.010

In the United States, the “common law,” that regulates ethics review is being overhauled. We ask how UK University Research Ethics Committees (U-RECs), following the American model, have been able to shape social-science research without much commoti... Read More about The formalization of social-science research ethics: How did we get there?.

IVF in Sri Lanka: A concise history of regulatory impasse (2016)
Journal Article
Simpson, R. (2016). IVF in Sri Lanka: A concise history of regulatory impasse. Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online, 2, 8-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rbms.2016.02.003

This article outlines the development of IVF in Sri Lanka from the first successful births in the late 1990s and over the subsequent 15 years. It is based on anthropological fieldwork carried out at various points during this period. The piece focuse... Read More about IVF in Sri Lanka: A concise history of regulatory impasse.

Fifteenth Century Problems for the Twenty-First Century Gift: Human Tissue Transactions in Ethnically Diverse Societies (2014)
Journal Article
Simpson, B. (2014). Fifteenth Century Problems for the Twenty-First Century Gift: Human Tissue Transactions in Ethnically Diverse Societies. Anthropological Forum, 24(4), 338-350. https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2014.947356

The language of the ‘gift’ continues to be drawn upon in attempts to encourage altruistic organ and tissue donation. My aim here is to consider the anxieties that come into focus when this rhetoric is deployed in the context of ethnic minorities and,... Read More about Fifteenth Century Problems for the Twenty-First Century Gift: Human Tissue Transactions in Ethnically Diverse Societies.

Pharmaceuticalisation and ethical review in South Asia: Issues of scope and authority for practitioners and policy makers (2014)
Journal Article
Simpson, B., Khatri, R., Ravindran, D., & Udalagama, T. (2015). Pharmaceuticalisation and ethical review in South Asia: Issues of scope and authority for practitioners and policy makers. Social Science & Medicine, 131, 247-254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.03.016

Ethical review by expert committee continues to be the first line of defence when it comes to protecting human subjects recruited into clinical trials. Drawing on a large scale study of biomedical experimentation across South Asia, and specifically o... Read More about Pharmaceuticalisation and ethical review in South Asia: Issues of scope and authority for practitioners and policy makers.

Managing Potential in Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Reflections on Gifts, Kinship, and the Process of Vernacularization (2013)
Journal Article
Simpson, B. (2013). Managing Potential in Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Reflections on Gifts, Kinship, and the Process of Vernacularization. Current Anthropology, 54(Supplement 7), S87-S96. https://doi.org/10.1086/670173

Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) offer an ever-widening repertoire of possibilities for how bodies, substances, and relationships might be brought together in the accomplishment of reproduction. This article reflects on the tensions that ari... Read More about Managing Potential in Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Reflections on Gifts, Kinship, and the Process of Vernacularization.

Precarious ethics: Toxicology research among self-poisoning hospital admissions in Sri Lanka. (2013)
Journal Article
Sariola, S., & Simpson, B. (2013). Precarious ethics: Toxicology research among self-poisoning hospital admissions in Sri Lanka. BioSocieties, 8(1), 41-57. https://doi.org/10.1057/biosoc.2012.34

Self-harm using poison is a serious public health problem across Asia. As part of a broader effort to tackle this problem, medical research involving randomised clinical trials are used to identify effective antidotes among patients who have ingested... Read More about Precarious ethics: Toxicology research among self-poisoning hospital admissions in Sri Lanka..

The interview as narrative ethnography: seeking and shaping connections in qualitative research (2012)
Journal Article
Hampshire, K., Blell, M., Iqbal, N., & Simpson, B. (2014). The interview as narrative ethnography: seeking and shaping connections in qualitative research. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 17(3), 215-231. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2012.729405

Acts of counter-subjectification in qualitative research are always present but are often submerged in accounts that seek to locate the power of subjectification entirely with the researcher. This is particularly so when talking to people about sensi... Read More about The interview as narrative ethnography: seeking and shaping connections in qualitative research.

‘Everybody is moving on’: Infertility, relationality and the aesthetics of family among British-Pakistani Muslims (2012)
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Hampshire, K., Blell, M., & Simpson, B. (2012). ‘Everybody is moving on’: Infertility, relationality and the aesthetics of family among British-Pakistani Muslims. Social Science & Medicine, 74(7), 1045-1052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.12.031

It is now widely recognised that experiences of infertility are socially and culturally contingent. Drawing on reproductive narratives of 108 British-Pakistani Muslims living in Northeast England (collected from 2007 to 2010), we show that subjective... Read More about ‘Everybody is moving on’: Infertility, relationality and the aesthetics of family among British-Pakistani Muslims.

Blinding Authority: Randomized Clinical Trials and the Production of Global Scientific Knowledge in Contemporary Sri Lanka (2012)
Journal Article
Simpson, B., & Sariola, S. (2012). Blinding Authority: Randomized Clinical Trials and the Production of Global Scientific Knowledge in Contemporary Sri Lanka. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 37(5), 555-575. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243911432648

In this article, the authors present an ethnography of biomedical knowledge production and science collaboration when they take place in developing country contexts. The authors focus on the arrival of international clinical trials to Sri Lanka and p... Read More about Blinding Authority: Randomized Clinical Trials and the Production of Global Scientific Knowledge in Contemporary Sri Lanka.