A pill to control the uterus: misoprostol and reproductive politics in Burkina Faso and Senegal [0.03%]
控制子宫的药片——burkina faso和塞内加尔的米索前列醇与生殖政治学
Siri Suh,Tidiane Ndoye,Nathalie Sawadogo
Siri Suh
African women's uteri have long been objects of biomedical and technological control, from the promotion and discouragement of births by colonial authorities and development experts, to the neoliberal and feminist achievements of reproducti...
'There is No Fixed time': Epidemic Preparedness and Relational Time Among Acholi Refugees in Uganda [0.03%]
“没有固定的时间”——乌干达阿乔利难民中的疫情应对与关系时间概念
Sophie Mylan
Sophie Mylan
Techno-scientifically orientated public health approaches to epidemic preparedness are based on a linear temporality, and struggle to embrace the uncertainty surrounding unpredictable and uncontrollable events. Long-term ethnographic resear...
"It's a Limbo": The Moral Scenes of Interpreting Autonomy in Danish Intellectual Disability Care [0.03%]
“这是一种利莫”:丹麦智力障碍护理中解释自主性的伦理场景
Maya Christiane Flensborg Jensen,Rikke Horne Fischer
Maya Christiane Flensborg Jensen
In Denmark, people with intellectual disabilities who live in supported housing are entitled to both care and autonomy. Catering to these ideals creates situated dilemmas for caregivers and residents, especially when increased attention to ...
Still in the Danwei: How Danwei Memory Anchors Institutional Dementia Care in Urban China [0.03%]
单位大家庭逻辑对中国城市机构养老的影响研究
Yuan Yan
Yuan Yan
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in an urban Chinese care home, this article examines how residents with dementia establish familiarity in institutional settings. Contrary to home-making approaches that locate familiarity in domestic intimac...
Navigating Challenges with Trust and Creativity: Adolescents' Experiences of COVID-19 in Iceland [0.03%]
信任与创造力挑战应对：冰岛青少年眼中的新冠疫情体验
Eva Jörgensen,Ria Reis,Jónína Einarsdóttir
Eva Jörgensen
In this study, we explore the relational dimensions of resilience among adolescents in Iceland during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the frameworks of social-ecological resilience and the embodied, social, and public child, we examine how res...
Jiaqi Liu,Jianfeng Zhu,Mei Ding et al.
Jiaqi Liu et al.
We introduce eggcentrism to examine how eggs govern women's time, choices, and worth in Chinese IVF clinics. Drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork, we explore how clinical and social infrastructures render the egg central to ...
Promises and Tensions: Clinic-Based HIV Viral Load Testing and Infant Diagnosis in Papua New Guinea [0.03%]
兑现与挑战：艾滋病毒载量检测和婴儿诊断在巴布亚新几内亚门诊的实施问题
Sujith Kumar Prankumar,Ruthy Boli-Neo,Janet Gare et al.
Sujith Kumar Prankumar et al.
Using a sociomaterial perspective based on interviews with health workers, we examine how clinic-based HIV viral load testing and early infant diagnosis technologies reshape health care realities in Papua New Guinea. The use of such technol...
IVF Doctors as Moral Pioneers and Moral Guardians in Pronatalist China [0.03%]
辅助生育医生在中国重孙社会中的道德先锋与道德守护角色
Ziqi Xie
Ziqi Xie
#In this article I examine the roles of IVF doctors in two state-owned hospitals amid China's shift to pronatalism. Rather than simply promoting infertility treatment, some doctors act paternalistically as "moral pioneers" and "moral guardi...
Ordinary Possession: Kinship, Alterity, and the Perils of Selfhood in Pakistan [0.03%]
寻常的占有：亲属关系、他者与自我认同的风险——兼论巴基斯坦的社会问题
Muhammad Osama Imran,Sanaullah Khan
Muhammad Osama Imran
In this article we theorize ordinary possession as a form of self-estrangement through which tension, kinship pressure, and dissociative states are negotiated in everyday life in Pakistan. Rather than treating jinns as episodic intrusions, ...
Caroline Meier Zu Biesen
Caroline Meier Zu Biesen
In this article, I examine the uterus as an object in relation to endometriosis and the epistemological struggle of sufferers to have their pain taken seriously. Defined by endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus, endometriosis affects m...