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Rachel Schurman
Researcher at University of Minnesota
Publications - 40
Citations - 2247
Rachel Schurman is an academic researcher from University of Minnesota. The author has contributed to research in topics: Agricultural biotechnology & Medicaid. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 39 publications receiving 2109 citations. Previous affiliations of Rachel Schurman include Boston University & University of California, Berkeley.
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The Hidden Mental Health Network: Treatment of Mental Illness by Nonpsychiatrist Physicians
TL;DR: Physicians treating nonpsychiatrists' mentally ill patients appear to be providing a different product than psychiatrists are, spending less time with patients, but using a wider range of diagnostic and therapeutic services during each office visit.
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Fighting “Frankenfoods”: Industry Opportunity Structures and the Efficacy of the Anti-Biotech Movement in Western Europe
TL;DR: The authors argued that an undertheorized aspect of external context, namely, industry structures, is a primary factor explaining why the anti-biotech movement in Western Europe was so effective.
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Industrial dynamics and the problem of nature
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors contrast the formal and real subsumption of nature to highlight the distinct ways in which biological systems are industrialized and may be made to operate as productive forces in and of themselves.
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Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth:
TL;DR: The Professional Guinea Pig as mentioned in this paper investigates the motivations, reflections, and practices of professionalized clinical trial participation, and argues that the drug industry deliberately uses the consent form to obfuscate the commodified relationship with research subjects.
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Closing the “Great Divide”: New Social Theory on Society and Nature
Michael Goldman,Rachel Schurman +1 more
TL;DR: A review of recent environmental sociologists' efforts to move sociology beyond the nature/society divide can be found in this article, with a focus on the inseparability of nature and society.