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Medical Anthropology LIVING WITH RARE DISEASES IN EUROPE: UNCERTAINTY, NEGOTIATIONS, AND TEMPORALITY. Volume 44, Issue 5 of Medical Anthropology

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.

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)

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....

Medical Anthropology LIVING WITH RARE DISEASES IN EUROPE: UNCERTAINTY, NEGOTIATIONS, AND TEMPORALITY. Volume 44, Issue 5 of Medical Anthropology

Issue 5’s title is: “Living with Rare Diseases in Europe: Uncertainty, Negotiations, and Temporality.” www.tandfonline.com/toc/gmea20/4...

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)

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.

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...

Read the introduction by the editors, @dtpowis.bsky.social ky.social & @adriennestrong.bsky.social l‬: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Medical Anthropology SURVEILLANCE-CARE. Volume 44, Issue 3 of Medical Anthropology

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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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...

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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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...

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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“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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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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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...

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; ...

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)

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 Volume 44, Issue 1 of Medical Anthropology

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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