New Findings from Providence College in the Area of CDC and FDA Described (A Eulogy for Jane Robinson: a Social Autopsy of Uncare Policies): CDC and FDA

2023 MAY 22 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at CDC & FDA Daily -- Current study results on CDC and FDA have been published. According to news reporting originating in Providence, Rhode Island, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Shortly after losing her health insurance in 2018, Jane Robinson died of a treatable respiratory infection. This article argues that Jane’s death occurred at the nexus of two different approaches to care: the necropolitics of uncare and the micropolitics of generative care labor.”

Financial supporters for this research include Committee on Aid to Faculty Research, Undergraduate Research Fund, Center for Engaged Learning, Health Policy and Management Department, School of Professional Studies, Center for Teaching and Learning.

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Providence College, “Both of these approaches to care increased Jane’s health and social vulnerability, in turn quickening her death. We adopt the necropolitics of uncare framework to identify and name the harmful policies and attitudes of disregard that control access to life saving medical care. In the micropolitics of care in Jane’s life, she became the safety net for others, which left little over when her health began to deteriorate. This social autopsy reveals that her care networks were insufficient to undo the uncare enshrined in state policy.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Jane’s unnecessary death foreshadowed the excess mortality that the United States has experienced from COVID-19.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: A Eulogy for Jane Robinson: a Social Autopsy of Uncare Policies. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2022;36(1):27-43. Medical Anthropology Quarterly can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Medical Anthropology Quarterly - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1548-1387)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Jessica M. Mulligan, Providence College, Hlth Policy & Management Dept, Providence, RI 02918, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12664. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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