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  1. Article ; Online: Politics and trust in Ebola vaccine trials

    Aggrey, John K / Shrum, Wesley

    Politics and the life sciences : the journal of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences

    2020  Volume 39, Issue 1, Page(s) 38–55

    Abstract: Vaccine trials for infectious diseases take place in a milieu of trust in which scientists, regulatory institutions, and volunteers trust each other to play traditional roles. This milieu of trust emerges from a combination of preexisting linkages ... ...

    Abstract Vaccine trials for infectious diseases take place in a milieu of trust in which scientists, regulatory institutions, and volunteers trust each other to play traditional roles. This milieu of trust emerges from a combination of preexisting linkages embedded in the local and national political context. Using the case of failed vaccine trials in Hohoe, Ghana, we explore this milieu of trust by employing the concept of tandems of trust and control, with a particular focus on the perceived characteristics of the disease and the linkages formed. An analysis of qualitative interviews collected in Hohoe following the West Africa Ebola outbreak of 2014-2016 shows that the trust/control nexus in vaccine trials precedes the implementation of those trials, while both the characteristics of Ebola and the political context shaped the formation and breakdown of relationships in the trial network.
    MeSH term(s) Clinical Trials as Topic/standards ; Drug Approval/organization & administration ; Ebola Vaccines/administration & dosage ; Ghana ; Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola/epidemiology ; Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola/prevention & control ; Humans ; Interviews as Topic ; Politics ; Qualitative Research ; Trust
    Chemical Substances Ebola Vaccines
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-07-21
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2040372-0
    ISSN 1471-5457 ; 0730-9384
    ISSN (online) 1471-5457
    ISSN 0730-9384
    DOI 10.1017/pls.2020.1
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  2. Article: What caused the flood? Controversy and closure in the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

    Shrum, Wesley

    Social studies of science

    2014  Volume 44, Issue 1, Page(s) 3–33

    Abstract: Causal attribution for one of the largest disasters in American history has undergone three major shifts. From August 2005 through November 2009, the principal explanation of the flooding of New Orleans was characterized by three distinguishable phases - ...

    Abstract Causal attribution for one of the largest disasters in American history has undergone three major shifts. From August 2005 through November 2009, the principal explanation of the flooding of New Orleans was characterized by three distinguishable phases - reactive, organizational, and legal - as the catastrophic events of Hurricane Katrina were ascribed to natural, geotechnical, and environmental causes. From a monstrous storm, to failed levees, and ultimately the loss of wetlands through an insidious shipping channel, 'what happened' should be viewed as a technoscientific development in which media and litigation processes transformed the structural conditions for the production of knowledge claims. Video ethnography is used to examine causal transitions as structural conditions of inquiry changed. Levees - the most important symbol of failure - shifted from cause to consequence. Understanding of disaster cycled from nature to humans, and to nature once more.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2014-02
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1482712-8
    ISSN 1460-3659 ; 0306-3127
    ISSN (online) 1460-3659
    ISSN 0306-3127
    DOI 10.1177/0306312713498654
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  3. Book: Ethnographic video

    Shrum, Wesley / Scott, Greg / Ostrowski, Zack

    filmmaking in academia

    2017  

    Abstract: Professors Wesley Shrum and Greg Scott discuss and demonstrate the fundamentals of video ...

    Abstract Professors Wesley Shrum and Greg Scott discuss and demonstrate the fundamentals of video ethnography. They bring the cameras into the middle of one of their own documentary productions and analyze the concepts of objectivity and academic legitimacy.
    Keywords Ethnology/Research/Methodology.
    Language English
    Size 1 online resource (1 video file (37 min., 31 sec.)) :, sound, colour
    Document type Book
    Note Closed-captions in English.
    ISBN 9781526402691 ; 1526402696
    DOI 10.4135/9781526402691
    Database NAL-Catalogue (AGRICOLA)

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  4. Article ; Online: The Burden of Elders: Anxiety, Depression, and Personal Networks in Two African Slums.

    Shrum, Wesley / Mbatia, Paul N / Yevuyibor, Jonathan Teye / Schafer, Mark / Walker, Mark / Miller, Paige / Palackal, Antony

    The Journal of nervous and mental disease

    2021  Volume 209, Issue 7, Page(s) 533–536

    Abstract: Abstract: Although anxiety and depression have been central topics for scholars and clinicians in the United States, few studies have examined their correlates in sub-Saharan Africa and none have examined large urban slums. Using face-to-face interviews ...

    Abstract Abstract: Although anxiety and depression have been central topics for scholars and clinicians in the United States, few studies have examined their correlates in sub-Saharan Africa and none have examined large urban slums. Using face-to-face interviews in two African cities, we analyze self-reported symptoms of anxiety and depression in a community-based sample (n = 495). Ordinary least squares regression was used to analyze a variety of demographic and social predictors including sex, child-rearing, marital status, education, income, age, and neighborhood for residents of Agbogbloshie (Accra, Ghana) and Kangemi (Nairobi, Kenya). Controlling for other factors, two personal network dimensions were significant. Total network size is positively associated with symptoms of anxiety and depression in Kenya but not in Ghana. However, one factor was predictive of symptoms of anxiety and depression in both locations: the reported percentage of ties with older persons. Higher levels of anxiety and depression are associated with a larger share of older individuals in one's personal network.
    MeSH term(s) Adolescent ; Adult ; Age Factors ; Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Anxiety/ethnology ; Depression/ethnology ; Family/ethnology ; Female ; Ghana/ethnology ; Humans ; Kenya/ethnology ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Poverty Areas ; Residence Characteristics ; Social Networking ; Urban Population ; Young Adult
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-06-24
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 3020-x
    ISSN 1539-736X ; 0022-3018
    ISSN (online) 1539-736X
    ISSN 0022-3018
    DOI 10.1097/NMD.0000000000001340
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  5. Article: Isolated in a technologically connected world?: Changes in the core professional ties of female researchers in Ghana, Kenya, and Kerala, India.

    Miller, B Paige / Shrum, Wesley

    The Sociological quarterly

    2012  Volume 53, Issue 2, Page(s) 143–165

    Abstract: Using panel data gathered across two waves (2001 and 2005) from researchers in Ghana, Kenya, and Kerala, India, we examine three questions: (1) To what extent do gender differences exist in the core professional networks of scientists in low-income areas? ...

    Abstract Using panel data gathered across two waves (2001 and 2005) from researchers in Ghana, Kenya, and Kerala, India, we examine three questions: (1) To what extent do gender differences exist in the core professional networks of scientists in low-income areas? (2) How do gender differences shift over time? (3) Does use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) mediate the relationship between gender and core network composition? Our results indicate that over a period marked by dramatic increases in access to and use of various ICTs, the composition and size of female researchers core professional ties have either not changed significantly or have changed in an unexpected direction. Indeed, the size of women's ties are retracting over time rather than expanding.
    MeSH term(s) Gender Identity ; Ghana/ethnology ; History, 21st Century ; India/ethnology ; Interprofessional Relations ; Kenya/ethnology ; Social Class/history ; Social Networking/history ; Socioeconomic Factors/history ; Technology/economics ; Technology/education ; Technology/history ; Women/education ; Women/history ; Women/psychology ; Women's Health/education ; Women's Health/ethnology ; Women's Health/history
    Language English
    Publishing date 2012-05-14
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Historical Article ; Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2047513-5
    ISSN 1533-8525 ; 0038-0253
    ISSN (online) 1533-8525
    ISSN 0038-0253
    DOI 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2012.01229.x
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  6. Book ; Online: Past, present, and future of research in the information society

    Shrum, Wesley

    2006  

    Abstract: Examines the role of research and the production of knowledge in the information society, with emphasis on developing areas of the world. This work contains technologies and trends in the utilization of information technology for science and engineering. ...

    Institution ebrary, Inc
    Author's details Wesley Shrum; edited by Wesley Shrum ... [et al.]
    Abstract Examines the role of research and the production of knowledge in the information society, with emphasis on developing areas of the world. This work contains technologies and trends in the utilization of information technology for science and engineering. It also examines science, and engineering in the origin and development of the Internet
    Keywords Digital divide/Research ; Information society ; Information technology/Research ; Telecommunication/Research
    Language English
    Size Online-Ressource (xiii, 273 p), ill, 24 cm
    Publisher Springer
    Publishing place New York
    Document type Book ; Online
    Note Includes bibliographical references and index
    ISBN 0387327223 ; 0387476504 ; 9780387327228 ; 9780387476506
    Database Library catalogue of the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), Hannover

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  7. Article ; Online: Who's afraid of Ebola? Epidemic fires and locative fears in the Information Age.

    Shrum, Wesley / Aggrey, John / Campos, Andre / Pamplona da Costa, Janaina / Joseph, Jan / Kreimer, Pablo / Kroeger, Rhiannon / Rodriguez Medina, Leandro / Miller, Paige / Palackal, Antony / Pandal de la Peza, Ana / Traore, Abou

    Social studies of science

    2020  Volume 50, Issue 5, Page(s) 707–727

    Abstract: Epidemics have traditionally been viewed as the widespread occurrence of infectious disease within a community, or a sudden increase above what is typical. But modern epidemics are both more and less than the diffusion of viral entities. We argue that ... ...

    Abstract Epidemics have traditionally been viewed as the widespread occurrence of infectious disease within a community, or a sudden increase above what is typical. But modern epidemics are both more and less than the diffusion of viral entities. We argue that epidemics are 'fire objects', using a term coined by Law and Singleton: They generate locative fears through encounters that focus attention on entities that are unknown or imprecisely known, transforming spaces and humans into indeterminate dangers, alternating appearance and absence. The Ebola epidemic of 2014 had more complex impacts than the number of infections would suggest. We employ multi-sited qualitative interviews to argue that
    MeSH term(s) COVID-19 ; Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology ; Coronavirus Infections/psychology ; Epidemics ; Fear ; Global Health ; Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola/epidemiology ; Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola/psychology ; Humans ; Information Technology ; Pandemics ; Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology ; Pneumonia, Viral/psychology ; Qualitative Research ; Zika Virus Infection/epidemiology ; Zika Virus Infection/psychology
    Keywords covid19
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-06-29
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 1482712-8
    ISSN 1460-3659 ; 0306-3127
    ISSN (online) 1460-3659
    ISSN 0306-3127
    DOI 10.1177/0306312720927781
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  8. Book: Research capacity for sustainable development

    Shrum, Wesley

    report of a field study in Ghana, Kenya, and Kerala (India)

    (Publication : Advisory Council for Scientific Research in Development Problems ; 11)

    1996  

    Author's details by Wesley Monroe Shrum Jr
    Series title Publication : Advisory Council for Scientific Research in Development Problems ; 11
    Keywords Forschung ; Nachhaltige Entwicklung ; Ghana ; Kenia ; Indien ; 13*14*15*23*24*25*31*32*41*42*51*52
    Language English
    Size 51, [32] S
    Document type Book
    ISBN 9071367207 ; 9789071367205
    Database ECONomics Information System

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  9. Article: Who's afraid of Ebola? Epidemic fires and locative fears in the Information Age

    Shrum, Wesley / Aggrey, John / Campos, Andre / Pamplona da Costa, Janaina / Joseph, Jan / Kreimer, Pablo / Kroeger, Rhiannon / Rodriguez Medina, Leandro / Miller, Paige / Palackal, Antony / Pandal de la Peza, Ana / Traore, Abou

    Soc Stud Sci

    Abstract: Epidemics have traditionally been viewed as the widespread occurrence of infectious disease within a community, or a sudden increase above what is typical. But modern epidemics are both more and less than the diffusion of viral entities. We argue that ... ...

    Abstract Epidemics have traditionally been viewed as the widespread occurrence of infectious disease within a community, or a sudden increase above what is typical. But modern epidemics are both more and less than the diffusion of viral entities. We argue that epidemics are 'fire objects', using a term coined by Law and Singleton: They generate locative fears through encounters that focus attention on entities that are unknown or imprecisely known, transforming spaces and humans into indeterminate dangers, alternating appearance and absence. The Ebola epidemic of 2014 had more complex impacts than the number of infections would suggest. We employ multi-sited qualitative interviews to argue that locative fear is the essence of modern global epidemics. In the discussion we contrast Ebola with both the Zika epidemic that followed and the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
    Keywords covid19
    Publisher WHO
    Document type Article
    Note WHO #Covidence: #620853
    Database COVID19

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  10. Article ; Online: Who’s afraid of Ebola? Epidemic fires and locative fears in the Information Age

    Shrum, Wesley / Aggrey, John / Campos, Andre / Pamplona da Costa, Janaina / Joseph, Jan / Kreimer, Pablo / Kroeger, Rhiannon / Rodriguez Medina, Leandro / Miller, Paige / Palackal, Antony / Pandal de la Peza, Ana / Traore, Abou

    Social Studies of Science

    2020  Volume 50, Issue 5, Page(s) 707–727

    Abstract: Epidemics have traditionally been viewed as the widespread occurrence of infectious disease within a community, or a sudden increase above what is typical. But modern epidemics are both more and less than the diffusion of viral entities. We argue that ... ...

    Abstract Epidemics have traditionally been viewed as the widespread occurrence of infectious disease within a community, or a sudden increase above what is typical. But modern epidemics are both more and less than the diffusion of viral entities. We argue that epidemics are ‘fire objects’, using a term coined by Law and Singleton: They generate locative fears through encounters that focus attention on entities that are unknown or imprecisely known, transforming spaces and humans into indeterminate dangers, alternating appearance and absence. The Ebola epidemic of 2014 had more complex impacts than the number of infections would suggest. We employ multi-sited qualitative interviews to argue that locative fear is the essence of modern global epidemics. In the discussion we contrast Ebola with both the Zika epidemic that followed and the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
    Keywords History and Philosophy of Science ; General Social Sciences ; History ; covid19
    Language English
    Publisher SAGE Publications
    Publishing country us
    Document type Article ; Online
    ZDB-ID 1482712-8
    ISSN 1460-3659 ; 0306-3127
    ISSN (online) 1460-3659
    ISSN 0306-3127
    DOI 10.1177/0306312720927781
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