Dads and Digital Devices: Embodied and Spectral Presences in Diabetes Care in Greece and Denmark [0.03%]
爸爸们和数字设备:希腊和丹麦糖尿病护理中的具身化和幽灵式在场
Maria Athena Campbell,Hanne Overgaard Mogensen
Maria Athena Campbell
Fathers to children with type 1 diabetes increasingly engage with digital technologies that monitor and regulate their child's condition, yet the embodied and emotional dimensions of this care remain underexplored. Based on ethnographic fie...
Response-Able Care and Undone Care Spaces: The Role of Digital Technologies in Danish Epilepsy Care [0.03%]
问责制护理与未完成的护理空间:数字技术在丹麦癫痫护理中的作用
Frederike Fahse,Henriette Langstrup
Frederike Fahse
In this article, we explore how people with epilepsy and their caregivers handle everyday life with epilepsy and the constant fear of an unexpected seizure through digital care technologies. These technologies are often used outside clinica...
Affordances of Fun: An Ethnography of Special Educators and Intellectually Disabled Adults in India [0.03%]
快乐中的可能性:印度特殊教育工作者与智力障碍成年人的民族志研究
Shruti Vaidya
Shruti Vaidya
In this article, I focus on a vocational and arts center named Udaan in Pune, India that prioritizes the value of fun as its institutional goal to analyze the affordances of fun for intellectually disabled adults. Drawing on 15 months of et...
Between the Extraordinary and the Everyday: Embodied Memory and Epidemic Preparedness During Ebola Outbreaks in Guinea [0.03%]
非凡与日常之间:几内亚埃博拉疫情期间的身体记忆和疫情应对措施
Almudena Mari-Saez,Frédéric Le Marcis
Almudena Mari-Saez
In 2021, an outbreak of Orthoebolavirus occurred in Nzerekore (Guinea). Following the declaration, diagnostic and containment actions were triggered, framing the outbreak as an extraordinary event. Yet, outbreaks are embedded in the everyda...
Amarrados: How Precariousness Structures Inconsistent Care in a Residential Facility for Peruvian Older Adults [0.03%]
捆绑与照料的不一致性:秘鲁养老院老年人的生活状态
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
In this article I examine how care is enacted, justified, and contested in a precarious residential institution for older adults in Lima, Peru. I analyze how material scarcity shapes everyday care practices and moral reasoning, especially r...
Sensory Ecologies of Therapeutics: Anti-Coloniality, Heritage Practices and Community Healing [0.03%]
治疗的感觉生态学:反殖民主义、遗产实践和社区康复
Kristina Baines
Kristina Baines
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among Belizean Maya and Garifuna communities, this paper forefronts the therapeutics of sensory experience in traditional healing practice. Exploring the sensory aspects of daily ecological interactions and...
Care (Mis)match: Arranging "Good" Care Relations for Multilingual Care Work Trainees in Denmark [0.03%]
关怀的(误)匹配:丹麦多语言护理工作培训人员的“良好”护理关系安排
Sara Lei Sparre,Stine Hauberg Nielsen
Sara Lei Sparre
In Denmark, a growing number of care workers are multilingual. To address labor shortage, municipalities recruit resident migrants for training in elderly care. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, we explore how migrant care work trainees' str...
Timothy Olanrewaju Alabi
Timothy Olanrewaju Alabi
In this article, I investigate the multiplicity of mental healthcare practices at Aro Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Abeokuta, Nigeria, using Annemarie Mol's theory of multiple bodies to explore how biomedical, sociocultural, and spiritual dime...
"Making One's Own Doctor" :" Épicerie medicine" and the Informal Circulation of Antibiotics in Northern Madagascar [0.03%]
“草根医疗”:“杂货店取药”及抗生素在马达加斯加北部的非正规流通
Mingyuan Zhang Betancourt
Mingyuan Zhang Betancourt
People in Madagascar often resort to small grocery kiosks (épicerie) for various Western medicines including antibiotics - they call the practice "magnano docteur tegna" ("making one's own doctor"). Creating an unregulated antibiotic marke...
Naturalizing Machines, Mechanizing Bodies: Constructions of Personhood at the NICU [0.03%]
自然化机器,机械化身体:NICU中的主体建构
Paula Martone,Anna Molas,Diana Marre
Paula Martone
Preterm infants represent a medical and social challenge. Their liminal state in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) can jeopardize parental recognition of their personhood and even of their status as human beings. Aware of how this cou...