@misc{Adair2017,
  author    = {Adair, Gigi},
  title     = {The "Feringhi Hakīm": medical encounters and colonial ambivalence in Isabella Bird's travels in Japan and Persia},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe},
  number    = {120},
  issn      = {1866-8380},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-395316},
  pages     = {13},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {This article considers Isabella Bird's representation of medicine in Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880) and Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan (1891), the two books in which she engages most extensively with both local (Chinese/Islamic) and Western medical science and practice. I explore how Bird uses medicine to assert her narrative authority and define her travelling persona in opposition to local medical practitioners. I argue that her ambivalence and the unease she frequently expresses concerning medical practice (expressed particularly in her later adoption of the Persian appellation "Feringhi Hakīm" [European physician] to describe her work) serves as a means for her to negotiate the colonial and gendered pressures on Victorian medicine. While in Japan this attitude works to destabilise her hierarchical understanding of science and results in some acknowledgement of traditional Japanese traditions, in Persia it functions more to disguise her increasing collusion with overt British colonial ambitions.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{GreweSalfeld2020,
  author    = {Grewe-Salfeld, Mirjam},
  title     = {Biohacking, bodies and do-it-yourself},
  series = {American Culture Studies ; 36},
  journal   = {American Culture Studies ; 36},
  publisher = {transcript Verlag},
  address   = {Bielefeld},
  isbn      = {978-3-8376-6004-3},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {314},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {From self-help books and nootropics, to self-tracking and home health tests, to the tinkering with technology and biological particles - biohacking brings biology, medicine, and the material foundation of life into the sphere of »do-it-yourself«. This trend has the potential to fundamentally change people's relationship with their bodies and biology but it also creates new cultural narratives of responsibility, authority, and differentiation. Covering a broad range of examples, this book explores practices and representations of biohacking in popular culture, discussing their ambiguous position between empowerment and requirement, promise and prescription.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MatthiasRisslingPieperetal.2020,
  author    = {Matthias, Katja and Rissling, Olesja and Pieper, Dawid Aleksander and Morche, Johannes and Nocon, Marc and Jacobs, Anja and Wegewitz, Uta Elke and Schirm, Jaqueline and Lorenz, Robert C.},
  title     = {The methodological quality of systematic reviews on the treatment of adult major depression needs improvement according to AMSTAR 2},
  series = {Heliyon},
  volume    = {6},
  journal   = {Heliyon},
  number    = {9},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {London [u.a.]},
  issn      = {2405-8440},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04776},
  pages     = {7},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Background: Several standards have been developed to assess methodological quality of systematic reviews (SR). One widely used tool is the AMSTAR. A recent update -AMSTAR 2 -is a 16 item evaluation tool that enables a detailed assessment of SR that include randomised (RCT) or non-randomised studies (NRS) of healthcare interventions. Methods: A cross-sectional study of SR on pharmacological or psychological interventions in major depression in adults was conducted. SR published during 2012-2017 were sampled from MEDLINE, EMBASE and the Cochrane Database of SR. Methodological quality was assessed using AMSTAR 2. Potential predictive factors associated with quality were examined. Results: In rating overall confidence in the results of 60 SR four reviews were rated "high", two were "moderate", one was "low" and 53 were "critically low". The mean AMSTAR 2 percentage score was 45.3\% (standard deviation 22.6\%) in a wide range from 7.1\% to 93.8\%. Predictors of higher quality were: type of review (higher quality in Cochrane Reviews), SR including only randomized trials and higher journal impact factor. Limitations: AMSTAR 2 is not intended to be used for the generation of a percentage score. Conclusions: According to AMSTAR 2 the overall methodological quality of SR on the treatment of adult major depression needs improvement. Although there is a high need for summarized information in the field of mental health, this work demonstrates the need to critically assess SR before using their findings. Better adherence to established reporting guidelines for SR is needed.},
  language  = {en}
}