Understanding anthropological contributions to infectious disease outbreak preparedness and response: a scoping review of key trends since 2019 [0.03%]
理解人类学在传染病疫情准备和应对中的贡献:一次关于2019年以来关键趋势的范围审查
Yang Zhao,Shelley Lees,Jennifer Palmer et al.
Yang Zhao et al.
This review explores how anthropology has been applied in outbreak preparedness and response since the onset of COVID-19 in 2019, identifying key trends and providing recommendations to its integration into global health practice. Our searc...
Pressure: ageing, hypertension and social self-care in Kampala, Uganda [0.03%]
压力:年龄、高血压与乌干达坎帕拉的社会自我保健
Charlotte Hawkins
Charlotte Hawkins
This article explores hypertension self-management based on ethnographic research with older adults in Kampala, Uganda in 2018-19. Participants described strategies to prevent and manage high blood pressure and related complications, often ...
Exploring Black feminist ethnographic methods: group care antenatal and postnatal body mapping sessions with Black and South Asian women in England [0.03%]
探索黑人女性主义民族志方法:在英格兰与非裔和亚洲妇女进行集体照顾产前和产后身体绘图会议
Anna Horn,Susan Bradley,Christine McCourt
Anna Horn
In the UK, Black, South Asian and other racially and ethnically minoritised women often report poorer experiences and mistrust in reproductive and maternity health care services. Anthropological ethnographies capturing lives of ethnic minor...
Precarious half-lives: silencing toxic legacies in a former uranium mining town in Kyrgyzstan [0.03%]
堪察吉斯坦铀矿镇有毒遗产的沉默及应对之策
Nikolaos Olma
Nikolaos Olma
This article examines how the residents of Mailuu-Suu, a former uranium mining town in southern Kyrgyzstan, normalise everyday life amidst radioactive uranium tailings. While biomedical researchers link the presence of tailings to heightene...
Anile Tmava,Ellen M Burstein
Anile Tmava
This paper is a call for a renewed critical medical anthropology (CMA) of the COVID-19 pandemic, one that attends not only to the pandemic's acute phase but also to its enduring afterlife. We argue that COVID-19 persists as a structuring co...
Enchanting with paperwork: epistemic pluralism and Western herbalists in the United States [0.03%]
巧言令“纸”:美国西方草药医师的知识多元论
Charis Boke
Charis Boke
Relying on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with Western herbalists this paper attends to herbalist narrative and practice around training for, assessing, and valuing embodied knowledges about plants and plant extracts. It describes the way...
Ecomelancholia in the city: affects and memory in late industrial urban India [0.03%]
城市中的消费忧郁:晚期工业城市印度的情感与记忆
Claudia Lang
Claudia Lang
People increasingly inhabit toxic and damaged urban environments that change not only their bodies but also their affective relations with the city. This paper focuses on 'urban ecomelancholia,' an affective response to experienced or antic...
Middle-class-self and the embodiment of benign prostate enlargement or prostate cancer: a reading of how 'onco-economics' affect a Japanese onco-self [0.03%]
中产阶级自我与良性前列腺增生或前列腺癌的身体化:“onco-经济学”如何影响日本的“onco-自我”的一种解读
Genaro Castro-Vázquez
Genaro Castro-Vázquez
This paper draws on 35 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with Japanese men to conceptualise embodied experiences of benign prostate enlargement and prostate cancer as 'onco-economics.' The experiences of prostate-related conditions provi...
Structural stigma and mental healthcare in Ghana: psychiatric nurses' perspectives [0.03%]
结构污名化与加纳的精神卫生保健:精神科护士的视角
David Kofi Mensah,Michelle Anne Parsons
David Kofi Mensah
In this paper, we bring together medical anthropology of stigma with sociology and public health work on structural stigma to show how interpersonal and structural stigmas are co-produced through social, professional, and institutional exch...
Arnav Sethi
Arnav Sethi
This essay juxtaposes the (informed) 'consent' sections of the American Anthropological Association's (AAA) Statement on Ethics (2012) and the Ethical Guidelines for good research practice (2021) of the Association of Social Anthropologists...