Margaret Everett

Publications

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“The ‘I’ in the Gene: Divided Property, Fragmented Personhood and the Making of a Genetic Privacy Law.” American Ethnologist 34:2(Spring 2007):373-384.

“Doing Bioethics: Challenges for Anthropology.” Human Organization 65:1 (Spring 2006): 46-54.

“Can You Keep a Genetic Secret? The Genetic Privacy Movement.” Journal of Genetic Counseling 13:4(2004): 273-292.

“The Social Life of Genes: Privacy, Property and the New Genetics” Social Science and Medicine 56(2003): 53-65. Also Reprinted with Revisions in Information Ethics: Privacy, Property and Power, Adam Moore, ed. University of Washington, 2005.

“The Gene Business: The Body as Property in the Biotech Century.” General Anthropology: Bulletin of the General Anthropology Division 9:2(2003): 1-5.

  “Evictions and Human Rights: Land Disputes in Bogotá, Colombia.” Habitat International 25:4(October 2001): 1-19.

“Development Visions on the Urban Frontier.” Political and Legal Anthropology Review 21:2(November 1998): 1-10.

 “Latin America On-Line: The Internet, Development and Democratization.” Human Organization 57:4 (Winter 1998): 385-393.

“Memorias del Futuro: La Nostalgia y la Planeación Urbana.” In La Ciudad Observada: Violencia, Cultura y Política, Yesid Campos and Ismael Ortiz, eds. Bogotá: Tercer Mundo Editores, 1998, pages 439-462.

“The Real World: Teaching Anthropology as if it Mattered.” Practicing Anthropolgy 20:1(Winter 1998): 42-43.

“The Ghost in the Machine: Agency in ‘Poststructural’ Critiques of Development.” Anthropological Quarterly 70:3(July 1997): 137-151.

Other Publications

Review of Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life, by Kaushik Sunder Rajan. Journal of the American Medical Association 296:18(November 8, 2006):2263-2264.

“In My Opinion: Cells are not my son, but still deserve dignity.” Oregonian, June 2, 1999.

“Evictions and Human Rights in Colombia.” Landlines: Newsletter of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy 11:6(November 1999): 6-8. (also published in Spanish as “Desalojos Forzosos y Derechos Humanos en Colombia,” in Perspectivas Urbanas: Temas Críticos en Políticas del Suelo en América Latina, Martim Smolka and Laura Mullahy, eds. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute, 2007.)

“Jack’s Life: Reflections on Motherhood in Troubling Times” Focal Point: A National Bulletin on Family Support and Children’s Mental Health 13:1(Fall 1999): 19-20.

“Evictions and Human Rights: An Ethnographic Study of Development and Land Disputes in Bogotá, Colombia.” Lincoln Institute Research Report. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, 1999 (30 pages).

With Maria Antonia de Obregón and Nelson Ramírez. “Boceto para un Retrato de Mario Calderón.” Magazin Dominical, El Espectador 745(24 August 1997): 4-6.