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Megan Wainwright's Outputs (3)

Photovoice and photodocumentary for enhancing community partner engagement and student learning in a public health field school in Cape Town (2017)
Journal Article
Wainwright, M., Bingham, S., & Sicwebu, N. (2017). Photovoice and photodocumentary for enhancing community partner engagement and student learning in a public health field school in Cape Town. Journal of Experiential Education, 40(4), 409-424. https://doi.org/10.1177/1053825917731868

Background: Field school research, which begins by considering community partners as pedagogues and thus exploring their perspectives on student learning, is uncommon. Photovoice is a method for self-expression of such marginalized voices. Purpose: D... Read More about Photovoice and photodocumentary for enhancing community partner engagement and student learning in a public health field school in Cape Town.

Imaging and imagining chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): Uruguayans draw their lungs (2017)
Journal Article
Wainwright, M. (2018). Imaging and imagining chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): Uruguayans draw their lungs. Disability and Rehabilitation, 40(26), 3094-3103. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2017.1376357

Purpose: This anthropological study investigated what people imagined chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to look like in their lungs, what may be influencing these images and how this imagery shapes embodiment. Method: Employing graphic elicitatio... Read More about Imaging and imagining chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): Uruguayans draw their lungs.

Sensing the Airs: The Cultural Context for Breathing and Breathlessness in Uruguay (2017)
Journal Article
Wainwright, M. (2017). Sensing the Airs: The Cultural Context for Breathing and Breathlessness in Uruguay. Medical Anthropology, 36(4), 332-347. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2017.1287180

The sensory experience of breathing, particularly the sensation of breathlessness in the case of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), is a rich though understudied topic in medical anthropology. Fieldwork in Uruguay made it clear to me that... Read More about Sensing the Airs: The Cultural Context for Breathing and Breathlessness in Uruguay.