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Research
Latest papers
Making blood 'Melanesian': fieldwork and isolating techniques in genetic epidemiology (1963-1976).
Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences · 2014 · first author
Latest funding
- $38,915
Disability Matters: Kinship Networks, Integration and the Social Consequences of Medical Diagnoses in Vanuatu
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $52,104
Eating for Trillions: Bodily Concepts of Direct-to-Consumer Microbiome Test Users in Social and Political Context
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
1 publications.
Making blood 'Melanesian': fieldwork and isolating techniques in genetic epidemiology (1963-1976).
Widmer A
Disability Matters: Kinship Networks, Integration and the Social Consequences of Medical Diagnoses in Vanuatu
Principal investigators: Widmer, Alexandra E.
Keywords: Oceania; Disability; Kinship; Care; Disablement; Decolonial Methdologies
Eating for Trillions: Bodily Concepts of Direct-to-Consumer Microbiome Test Users in Social and Political Context
Principal investigators: Widmer, Alexandra
Keywords: (1) Direct to Consumer Genomic Tests; (2) Microbiome; (3) Medicine and Personhood; (4) Social Studies of Science; (5) Quantified Self; (6) Medical Anthropology; (7) Intersectional Identities; (8) Human-Microbe relations; (9) Medicine and the State; (10) Feminist Anthropology
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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