BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Lasco, Gideon. (forthcoming). Height Matters: The Making, Meanings, and Materialities of Human Stature in the Philippines. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press.
Lasco, Gideon (ed.) (2021). Drugs and Philippine Society. Quezon City: Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press. Winner of the Gintong Aklat Award for Applied Sciences 2022.
Lasco, Gideon. (2021). “Living together in precarious times: COVID-19 in the Philippines.” In: Viral Loads: Anthropologies of urgency in the time of COVID-19. Manderson, L, Burke, N. and Wahlberg, A. (eds). London: UCL Press. (open access link). Winner of the Virginia A. Miralao Award for Research Excellence 2022.
Lasco, Gideon. (2020). The Philippines is Not a Small Country: Essays on Culture, Modernity and Nationhood. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press. Winner of the National Book Award for Essay 2022.
Lasco, Gideon. (2020). “The Chemical Lives of Young Filipinos” In: Rethinking Filipino Millennials, J. Cornelio, ed. Manila: University of Santo Tomas Press.
Lasco, Gideon. (2018). “The Doctor as Storyteller” In: From the Eyes of a Healer: An Anthology of Medical Anecdotes, J. Tabula, ed. Manila: Alubat Publishing.
Lasco, Gideon. (2016). Day Hikes and Nature Walks from Manila. Manila: Primer Group
JOURNAL ARTICLES
For a full listing of articles visit Google Scholar.
2023
Goncalves, J. & G. Lasco. (2023). Anthropology, Democracy, and Authoritarianism: Reflections from Brazil and the Philippines. Current Anthropology 64(1).
Lasco, Gideon. (2023). Not all citations are equal: Reflections from medical anthropology in the Philippines. Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
Lasco, Gideon. (2023). Drug testing in Philippine schools: Historical overview and implications for drug policy. International Journal of Drug Policy.
Lasco, Gideon. (2023). Measuring race and nation: Pediatric anthropometry and child growth charts in the Philippines (1909-2008). Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints, 71(1), 37-52.
Lasco, G, Tan, M.L., & Yu, V. Y. (2023). ‘Loob’ and ‘labas’: Spatial constructions of safety and risk amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. Health and Place. 79(1):102929
Lasco, G., & Yu, V. G. (2023). Pampalibog: chemsex, desire and pleasure in the Philippines. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 1-16.
Lasco, G., & Yu, V. G. (2023). Taking Flight: Narratives, Logistics, and Risks of Chemsex Scenes in the Philippines. The Journal of Sex Research, 1-12.
2022
Lasco, Gideon. (2022). Participant-observers by necessity: Anthropological responses to COVID-19 in the Philippines. Anthropology in Action.
Lasco, Gideon. (2022). “I think I have enough for now”: Living with COVID-19 antibodies in the Philippines. Medical Anthropology https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2022.2089569
Lasco, G., Renedo, A., Mendoza, J., Seguin, M. L., Palafox, B., Palileo‐Villanueva, L. M., ... & McKee, M. (2022). ‘Doing’hypertension: Experiential knowledge and practice in the self‐management of ‘high blood’in the Philippines. Sociology of Health & Illness, 44(7), 1167-1181.
Lasco, Gideon, and Lee Edson Yarcia (2022). The politics of drug rehabilitation in the Philippines. Health and Human Rights Journal 24(1):147-158
Lasco, G. Yunus, R. M., Dee, E. C., & McKee, M. (2022). Health Workers on the Political Frontlines. Health and Human Rights Journal 24(1):121-123
Lasco, Gideon. (2022). Decolonizing harm reduction. Harm Reduction Journal, 19(1), 1-3.
Lasco, Gideon, et al. (2022). Child nutrition in times of crisis: A qualitative study in Siargao Island, Philippines. Acta Medica Philippina.
Lasco, Gideon, and Vincen Gregory Yu. (2022). Pharmaceutical messianism and the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Science & Medicine, 114567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114567
Mendoza, J., Lasco, G.. Renedo, A…D. Balabanova. (2022). (De)constructing ‘therapeutic itineraries’ of hypertension care: A qualitative study in the Philippines. Social Science & Medicine, 114567, 114570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114570
2021
Lasco, Gideon, and Vincen Gregory Yu. (2021). Medical populism and the politics of dengue epidemics in the Global South. Global Public Health. ttps://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2021.1965181
Tan, Michael L. & Gideon Lasco. (2021). ‘Hawa’ and ‘resistensya’: Local health knowledge and the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. Anthropology & Medicine https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2021.1893980
Dee, E. C., Paguio, J. A., Yao, J. S., Lim, J., & Lasco, G. (2021). Asian minorities in Asian countries: intersecting disparities affecting minoritised groups. The Lancet Oncology, 22(9), e381.
Lasco, Gideon, Vincen Gregory Yu, & Lia M. Palileo-Villanueva. (2021). How ethics committees and requirements are structuring health research in the Philippines: A qualitative study. BMC Medical Ethics 22(1), 1-11.
Yu, Vincen Gregory, Lasco, Gideon, and Clarissa C. David (2021). Fear, mistrust, and vaccine hesitancy: Narratives of the dengue vaccine controversy in the Philippines. Vaccine, 39(35), 4964-4972.
Lasco, Gideon, and Vincen Gregory Yu. (2021) "“Shabu is different”: Extrajudicial killings, death penalty, and ‘methamphetamine exceptionalism’in the Philippines." International Journal of Drug Policy (2021): 103168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103168
Marshall, A. I., Lasco, G., Phaiyarom, M., Pangkariya, N., Leuangvilay, P., Sinam, P., ... & Zhang, Y. (2021). Evidence on Child Nutrition Recommendations and Challenges in Crisis Settings: A Scoping Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(12), 6637. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126637
Lasco, Gideon, Vincen Gregory Yu, and Clarissa C. David. (2021). The Lived Realities of Health Financing: A Qualitative Exploration of Catastrophic Health Expenditure in the Philippines." Acta Medica Philippina https://doi.org/10.47895/amp.vi0.2389
Mendoza, J., Seguin, M. L., Lasco, G., Palileo-Villanueva, L. M., Amit, A., Renedo, A., ... & Balabanova, D. (2021). Strengths and Weaknesses of Digital Diaries as a Means to Study Patient Pathways: Experiences With a Study of Hypertension in the Philippines. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 20, 16094069211002746. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069211002746
Lasco, Gideon, and Vincen Gregory Yu. (2021) "Communicating COVID-19 vaccines: lessons from the dengue vaccine controversy in the Philippines." BMJ Global Health 6(3): e005422. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005422
Hedges, Kristin, and Gideon Lasco. "Medical Populism and COVID-19 Testing." Open Anthropological Research 1(1): 73-86. https://doi.org/10.1515/opan-2020-0109
Lasco, G., Nuevo, C. E. L., Nolasco, M. L. P., Famaloan, F. R. A. N., Bundoc, J. R., Capili, D. I. S., & Bermejo, R. (2020). “It’s as if I’m the one suffering”: Narratives of Parents of Children with Disability in the Philippines. Acta Medica Philippina. https://doi.org/10.47895/amp.vi0.658
Palafox, B., Renedo, A., Lasco, G., Palileo‐Villanueva, L., Balabanova, D., & McKee, M. (2021). Maintaining population health in low‐and middle‐income countries during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Why we should be investing in Community Health Workers. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 26(1), 20-22. https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.13498
Seguin, M., Lasco, G., Bin Idris, K., Mendoza, J., Mohd Kadri, N. H., Krauss, S., ... & McKee, M. (2021). Patient pathways for cardiovascular diseases in Malaysia and the Philippines: a systematic review. Wellcome Open Research, 6, 43.
2020
Lasco, Gideon. (2020). The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Outbreak in the Philippines (2003) Philippine Studies 68(3/4):337-369.
Selvarajah, S., Abi Deivanayagam, T., Lasco, G., Scafe, S., White, A., Zembe-Mkabile, W., & Devakumar, D. (2020). Categorisation and minoritisation. BMJ Global Health, 5(12), e004508.
Lasco, Gideon. (2020) Medical populism and the COVID-19 pandemic. Global Public Health 15(10):1417-1429. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2020.1807581
Lasco, Gideon. (2020). Challenging world leaders amid medical populism. The Lancet 396(10265), 1802-1803
Mallari, E., Lasco, G., Sayman, D. J., Amit, A. M. L., Balabanova, D., McKee, M., ... & Palafox, B. (2020). Connecting communities to primary care: a qualitative study on the roles, motivations and lived experiences of community health workers in the Philippines. BMC Health Services Research, 20(1), 1-10.
Lasco, Gideon, Mendoza, Jhaki, et al. (2020). Nasa dugo (‘It’s in the blood’): lay conceptions of hypertension in the Philippines BMJ Global Health 2020;5:e002295. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002295
Cornelio, Jayeel & Gideon Lasco. (2020). Morality politics: Drug use and the Catholic Church in the Philippines. Open Theology, 6(1):327-341. https://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2020-0112
Lasco, Gideon. (2020). Drugs and drug wars as populist tropes in Asia: Illustrative examples and implications for drug policy. International Journal of Drug Policy https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102668
Lasco, Gideon. (2020). ‘De estatura regular’: Height and Filipino bodily representations in the Spanish colonial period (1521-1898). Philippine Studies 68(1):57-82 https://doi.org/10.1353/phs.2020.0003
2019
Lasco, Gideon. & Larson, Heidi J. (2019). Medical populism and immunisation programs: Illustrative examples and consequences for public health. Global Public Health https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2019.1680724
Lasco, Gideon. & Hardon, Anita P. (2019). Keeping up with the times: Skin-lightening practices among young men in the Philippines. Culture, Health, & Sexuality https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2019.1671495
Lasco, Gideon. (2019). Curating the 21st century human body. Museum International 71(1-2):88-95
Lasco, G. D., Duya, J. E. D., Sanchez, J. H., & Dans, A. L. (2019). Before and After the Sin Tax Law: Perceived Changes in Tertiary Government Hospitals by Inpatients and Healthcare Workers. Acta Medica Philippina, 53(1): 6-11.
Lasco, Gideon and Curato, Nicole. (2019). Medical populism. Social Science & Medicine 221(1): 1-8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.12.006.
2018
Lasco, Gideon. (2018). “They might mistake you for an informant”: Anthropology in the time of the Philippine drug war. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 10.17157/mat.5.4.573
Lasco, Gideon. (2018). Kalaban: Young drug users’ engagements with law enforcement in the Philippines. International Journal of Drug Policy, 52, 39-44.
Palafox, B., Seguin, M. L., McKee, M. ...Lasco, G...& Majid, F. A. (2018). Responsive and Equitable Health Systems—Partnership on Non-Communicable Diseases (RESPOND) study: a mixed-methods, longitudinal, observational study on treatment seeking for hypertension in Malaysia and the Philippines. BMJ open, 8(7), e024000.
Lasco, Gideon. (2018). Call boys: Drug use and sex work among marginalized young men in a Philippine Port Community. Contemporary Drug Problems, 45(1): 33-46.
Older articles
Lasco, Gideon. (2014). Pampagilas: methamphetamine in the everyday economic lives of underclass male youths in a Philippine port. International Journal of Drug Policy, 25(4), 783-788.
Romualdez Jr, Alberto, Paul Gideon Lasco, and Bryan Albert Lim. (2012). "Universal Health Care in the Philippines." Journal of the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies 27.2: 180. http://dx.doi.org/10.15605/jafes.027.02.08
Acuin, Cecila, Bryan Albert Lim, and Paul Gideon Lasco. (2010). "Universal Health Care for Filipinos: Introduction" Acta Medica Philippina. 44 (4):11-13. See entire volume here.
SELECTED ESSAYS
Gideon Lasco is a weekly columnist in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. For a full listing of his articles in the Inquirer, visit this link.
He has also contributed essays and commentaries to various international print and online publications, including in his column in SAPIENS:
What is there is life on Venus? SAPIENS, October 22, 2020
The perils of vaccine messianism, The Straits Times, September 20, 2020.
The perils of vaccine messianism, The Straits Times, September 20, 2020.
The trouble with rushing a COVID-19 cure, The Straits Times, July 16, 2020.
Could COVID-19 Permanently Change Hand Hygiene? SAPIENS, April 17, 2020.
Why face masks are going viral. SAPIENS, February 7, 2020.
Could COVID-19 Permanently Change Hand Hygiene? SAPIENS, April 17, 2020.
Why face masks are going viral. SAPIENS, February 7, 2020.
The double life of coca. SAPIENS, January 30, 2020.
Why are people using illegal drugs demonized? SAPIENS, August 28, 2019.
Tuberculosis is Asia’s silent killer. The Statesman (India), July 20, 2019.
The Dark Side of Skin Whitening. SAPIENS, June 6, 2019.
“Don’t Call Philippines’ Duterte’s Anti-Drug Campaign a ‘War on Drugs’”, The Globe Post, December 11, 2018.
In the Philippines, the premium placed on height is no tall tale. The Conversation, April 4, 2017.
Just how big is the drug problem in the Philippines anyway? The Conversation, October 13, 2016.
Tuberculosis is Asia’s silent killer. The Statesman (India), July 20, 2019.
The Dark Side of Skin Whitening. SAPIENS, June 6, 2019.
“Don’t Call Philippines’ Duterte’s Anti-Drug Campaign a ‘War on Drugs’”, The Globe Post, December 11, 2018.
In the Philippines, the premium placed on height is no tall tale. The Conversation, April 4, 2017.
Just how big is the drug problem in the Philippines anyway? The Conversation, October 13, 2016.
