Legacies and Linkages: Episodes in the Establishment of New Reproductive Technologies in Contemporary Sri Lanka.
(2012)
Book Chapter
Simpson, B. (2012). Legacies and Linkages: Episodes in the Establishment of New Reproductive Technologies in Contemporary Sri Lanka. In M. Kneckt, S. Beck, & M. Klotz (Eds.), Reproductive Technologies As Global Form: Ethnographies of Knowledge, Practices, and Transnational Encounters. Campus Press and Chicago University Press
All Outputs (4)
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/10.1080/13645579.2012.729405Acts 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)
Journal Article
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.2011.12.031It 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/10.1177/0162243911432648In 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.