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...
Observing the observatory on race and health: reviewing 'health communications with (and for) Jewish communities' [0.03%]
races and health观察站：“(和为了)犹太社区的卫生传播”述评
Ben Kasstan-Dabush
Ben Kasstan-Dabush
National Health Service England established the Race and Health Observatory as an independent expert body in 2021 to advance meaningful changes for Black and minority ethnic communities, patients, and healthcare professionals. It serves as ...
James Wintrup
James Wintrup
Over the past few decades, it has become common for medical anthropologists to provide vivid and graphic descriptions of bodily suffering in their work. In this commentary, the author offer some critical reflections on this mode of writing....
Faltering care: why mothers experiencing homelessness in Dublin, Ireland, miss their childcare visits [0.03%]
照护受阻：为什么居住在爱尔兰都柏林的无家可归的母亲会错过儿童保健访问
Hannah Lucey
Hannah Lucey
This paper takes as its focus the caregiving efforts of a group of mothers in Dublin who were homeless, struggling with addiction, and separated from their children. It explores their ongoing orientation towards their distant children, in t...
Unveiling patienthood in psychiatric care: an ethnographic study in Nigeria [0.03%]
精神病护理中患者身份的揭示：尼日利亚的一份民族志研究
Timothy Olanrewaju Alabi
Timothy Olanrewaju Alabi
This article explores the creation, significance, and implications of patienthood within biomedical psychiatric hospital care practices, a topic that has often received insufficient attention from researchers. Using an ethnographic approach...