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The research presented in this issue takes us to #Germany, #France, #Poland & #Italy. Available here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/gmea20/4...
The issue includes 6 research articles, covering themes such as mitochondrial disease, Turner syndrome, Rhabdomyolysis, Cystic Fibrosis, and #spirituality.
The introduction, by Diasio and Rajtar, emphasizes how the contributors attend to those dimensions of rare diseases that are usually situated outside health policy and biomedical purview. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Issue 5’s title is: “Living with Rare Diseases in Europe: Uncertainty, Negotiations, and Temporality.” www.tandfonline.com/toc/gmea20/4...
The editorial by Ellen Foley, the discussant of the 2022 panel “Landscapes of Surveillance Care in Reproductive Health” reminds us: “surveillance-care is good to think with, particularly as the effects of surveillance-care are far from foregone conclusions.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The research presented takes us to North Carolina/ #USA, #Tanzania, #France and #Senegal.
The issue features 6 research articles and one editorial, covering themes such as #abortion, childbirth, medically assisted reproductive care, self-testing and pregnancies, men’s #maternal support, and #bureaucracy.
Read the introduction by the editors, @dtpowis.bsky.social ky.social & @adriennestrong.bsky.social l: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Issue 3, on Surveillance and Care, builds on a discussion which began at @americananthro.bsky.social in 2002 to explore ways that surveillance and care play upon each other in ethnographic research and what we might learn from them. www.tandfonline.com/toc/gmea20/4...
Have you read the two recent Special Issues published by @medanthropology.bsky.social ?
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Taking us to Dar es Salaam, Inga Haaland and Karama Ogillo explore how PrEP users experience novel types of (social) risks and harms, or social iatrogenesis, imposed by the biomedical #HIV prevention pill or the PrEP program.
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The history of #HIV #AIDS is often told from the Global North. @benjhegarty.bsky.social & co take us to an Indonesian transgender community (waria) to show how ethn. accounts of other HIV/AIDS histories can help us rethink fundamental global health concepts.
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As a lens and practice in global and #publichealth, emergency may enable, drive, and influence change in governmental disease management.
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How do we conceptualise emergency in times of a public health crisis? Michael Rabi’s examination of the measles crisis in Europe (2017-20) shows how emergency constitutes a multitude of coexisting governmental relations that shape structures...
Drawing on many other interviews w/ social workers, and reflecting on Paul Ricouer’s concept of little ethics, Todd Ebling & Thomas Malaby offer us a lens to examine the forging and negotiation of moral relationships of care and shared vulnerability. #openaccess
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“And how the hell do you go on every day? And how do you not think about that in everything else you’re doing in life?” argues a social worker in the USA. The quote is a testament to the shared moral burdens which continue to bear heavily on many front-line social work staff...
Breast/gynaecological #cancer predisposition testing in #Spain goes beyond med. diagnostics. Argudo-Portal shows how an anthropology of testing plays less expected roles in decaying healthcare systems through the production of low-risk collectives.. #openaccess
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Drawing on data obtained from 54 interviews with OB-GYNs practicing in #USA states, Buchbinder & Sabbath reflect on the notion of obstetric harm, including the behind-the-scenes work of state legislators to shape how OB-GYNs experience such harm. #openaccess
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3) a slow and gradual rather than revolutionary shift will continue to de-center Medical Anthropology from its moorings in the Global North, as scholars in the Global South remake the discipline anew, to confront challenges from their own perspectives.
Medical anthropology has changed & will continue to do soHow? 1) transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral collaborations will become increasingly more common; 2), some of the themes that have already come into focus will become unavoidable; ...
In their editorial, @jamesstaples.bsky.social and Rebecca Marsland write about how their journey, as editors, has evolved since they accepted this role in 2020, the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. #openaccess
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It is our pleasure to share with you the summary of articles published in the most recent issue of Medical Anthropology, Vol 44, Issue 1.
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