Aphasia Talks: Photography as a Means of Communication, Self-Expression, and Empowerment in Persons with Aphasia
November 5, 2008
Through collaboration between Archeworks, Inc., an alternative design program, and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, items and services designed to improve the lives of persons with stroke were developed. Read more
Portraits of Pain and Promise: A Photographic Study of Bosnian Youth
October 27, 2008
In the early 1990s, war erupted in Bosnia and Herzegovina, forcing large numbers of people to flee their homes and country, abandoning their culture and all that was familiar to them. Read more
The Uses of Photography in Clinical Nursing Practice and Research: A Literature Review
October 3, 2008
The aim of this paper is to report a study to identify themes and provide a ’snap-shot’ of the scope and uses of photography in clinical nursing practice and research. Read more
Chinese Village Women as Visual Anthropologists: A Participatory Approach to Reaching Policymakers
September 22, 2008
In this article, authors Caroline Wang, Mary Ann Burris and Xiang Yue Ping (1996) study the unbelievable labor force of Chinese women in rural China. Often unseen and unheard, researchers used a participant photography method to “(1) empower rural women to record and reflect their lives, especially health needs, from their own point of view; (2) to increase their collective knowledge about women’s health status; and (3) to inform policymakers and the broader society about health and community issues that are of greatest concern to rural women.”
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Social Science & Medicine 1996
Caroline Wanga, Mary Ann Burrisb and Xiang Yue Pingc
a School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A. b The Ford Foundation, International Club, No. 21, Jianguomenwai Dajie, Beijing 100020, People’s Republic of China c Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, 45 Qixiang Road, Kunming 650032, Yunnan, People’s Republic of China
Representing HIV/AIDS in Africa: Pluralist Photography and Local Empowerment
September 17, 2008
This essay examines the political consequences of the portrayal of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Authors Ronald Bleiker and Amy Kay (2007), “examine how different methods of photography embody different ideologies through which we give meaning to political phenomena.” Their findings suggest three different photographic methods of representing this health crisis in Africa.
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