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August 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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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...
Medical Anthropology
LIVING WITH RARE DISEASES IN EUROPE: UNCERTAINTY, NEGOTIATIONS, AND TEMPORALITY. Volume 44, Issue 5 of Medical Anthropology
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August 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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.
August 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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....
Uncertainty, Temporality, and Negotiations: Experiencing Rare Diseases in Europe
Published in Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness (Vol. 44, No. 5, 2025)
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August 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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...
Medical Anthropology
LIVING WITH RARE DISEASES IN EUROPE: UNCERTAINTY, NEGOTIATIONS, AND TEMPORALITY. Volume 44, Issue 5 of Medical Anthropology
www.tandfonline.com
August 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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....
Commentary on Over-Looked Spaces: Theorizing Surveillance-Care in Reproductive Health
Published in Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness (Vol. 44, No. 3, 2025)
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August 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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....
August 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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.
August 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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....
Over-looked Spaces: Theorizing Surveillance Care in Reproductive Health
At the 2022 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Seattle, WA, we organized a session called “Landscapes of Surveillance Care in Reproductive Health.” This introduction to o...
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August 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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...
Medical Anthropology
SURVEILLANCE-CARE. Volume 44, Issue 3 of Medical Anthropology
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August 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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...
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February 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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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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Social Iatrogenesis and Social Risks Among Queer PrEP Users in Dar Es Salaam
Pre-exposure prophylaxis, commonly known as PrEP, is an HIV-preventative pill taken to reduce the risk of contracting HIV. During a PrEP study in Dar es Salaam among queer PrEP users, this ethnogra...
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February 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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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Research, HIV/AIDS, and Turning Waria into a Key Population in Indonesia: An Ethnographic Oral History
The history of HIV/AIDS is often told from the Global North, a viewpoint that is naturalized in policies and programs that privilege biomedical models of treatment and prevention. This article expl...
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February 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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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“Canary in the Coal Mine”: Hope and Emergency in the Management of Measles
Exploring the relationship between governmental infectious disease management and emergency systems, I examine the turn to emergency in European measles management during the resurgence of the dise...
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February 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
As a lens and practice in global and #publichealth, emergency may enable, drive, and influence change in governmental disease management.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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...
“Canary in the Coal Mine”: Hope and Emergency in the Management of Measles
Exploring the relationship between governmental infectious disease management and emergency systems, I examine the turn to emergency in European measles management during the resurgence of the dise...
www.tandfonline.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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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Solicitude and Solitude: Care, Ethics, and the Vulnerability of Front-Line Social Work in the US
The moral terrain of caring in a social work context is often treacherous. During ethnographic fieldwork with front-line workers at an organization providing services for unhoused individuals in a ...
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February 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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...
February 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
“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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Testing Ecology: Breast and Gynecological Cancer Predisposition Tests and the National Healthcare System in Spain
This research asks what is being put to the test by breast and gynecological cancer predisposition testing in Spain beyond genes or cancer. By combining document analysis and fieldwork with nationa...
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February 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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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Reproductive Healthcare After Dobbs: Rethinking Obstetric Harm in the United States
The obstetric violence framework proposes that clinicians harm pregnant people through physical and psychological mistreatment and violations of autonomy. In this article, we analyze interviews wit...
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February 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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.
February 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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; ...
February 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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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Medical Anthropology Past, Present, and Future: The State of the Art
Published in Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness (Vol. 44, No. 1, 2025)
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February 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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