Crystal Meth, "High Blood," and Spiritual Manifestations Among Injection Drug-Using Youths in Mufakose, Harare [0.03%]
哈拉雷穆法科塞注射吸毒青年的冰毒、艾滋病和灵异体验
Florence Ncube
Florence Ncube
The discovery of illicit exchanges of "highblood" among injection drug-using youths has thrown families off balance in Mufakose. In this article, I explore the (ab)use of biomedical technologies by youths in administering crystal meth as we...
The "New Flu": Ontological Insecurity and Pandemic Sense-Making in the US South [0.03%]
“新型流感”：“美国南部的ontology不安与大流行感知认知
Jasmina Polovič,Laura A Bray,Gloria Tallbull et al.
Jasmina Polovič et al.
Pandemics are inherently disruptive, evoking uncomfortable and unsustainable emotions. We explore the emotional landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic and its normalization among vaccine hesitant residents in Oklahoma. Ontological insecurity re...
Business as Normal? [0.03%]
一切如常？
Tom Widger,James Staples,Rebecca Marsland
Tom Widger
The Cosmopolitics of Health: Women's Communal Healing as Defense of More-Than-Human Worlds in the Andes [0.03%]
天地人和：安第斯山区妇女的社区疗愈与多物种世界的保护关系学说
Lucía Isabel Stavig
Lucía Isabel Stavig
Illness is not only where colonial healthcare is experienced, but also a battleground over which worlds exist. Indigenous struggles to heal in their communities are political defenses of the more-than-human "worlds of health" vital to their...
Care Beyond the Clinic: Maintaining Life on Kidney Dialysis in Aging Japan [0.03%]
日本老龄化社会中的慢性肾病透析治疗及其对生命维持的影响
Amy Borovoy
Amy Borovoy
Care for kidney failure in the context of rapid aging taxes society, the state, and the individual patient. Kidney dialysis is the predominant form of care for end-stage renal disease in Japan. In this article I explore how dialysis profici...
Vaccinations, Pills, and Resistance: School Health Campaigns in Kenya During the COVID Pandemic [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的肯尼亚学校健康运动：疫苗、药物和抗阻
Mariam Florence Yusuf,Washington Onyango-Ouma,Paul Wenzel Geissler et al.
Mariam Florence Yusuf et al.
Ethnographic fieldwork in rural western Kenya (2022-2023) reveals how state-led public health interventions, including COVID-19 vaccination and school-based biomedical campaigns, operate through authority, hierarchy, and coercion. Such prac...
The Doing/Undoing of MRKH and the Doing of Gestational Pregnancy and Gender Through Uterus Transplants [0.03%]
MRKH的建构与解构以及通过子宫移植进行妊娠和性别角色的建构
Sophia Avice,Andrea Whittaker,Hannah Gibson
Sophia Avice
Women with the rare Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome are born without a uterus. Following international interviews with 34 women with MRKH and 15 surgeons and specialists, we explore how the usually invisible condition of MRKH...
Caught in the Middle: Biomedicine, Social Constructivism and Young People's Experiences of Obesity in Poland [0.03%]
夹在中间：生物医学、社会建构论与波兰青少年肥胖经历的关系研究
Zofia Boni,Stanley Ulijaszek
Zofia Boni
There continues to be a lot of uncertainty around childhood obesity, with biomedical and social perspectives colliding. Based on ethnographic research in Poland, we argue that the messiness of obesity as a research object and the inability ...
"It's Their Little Red Bible": Exploring Immigration and Immunization Journeys Through Nigerian Mother Relationships with Child Health Records in London [0.03%]
“那是她的红小字圣经——探索尼日利亚母亲在伦敦通过儿童健康记录讲述移民和疫苗接种经历的研究报告
Oyinkansola Ojo-Aromokudu,Sandra Mounier-Jack,Ben Kasstan-Dabush
Oyinkansola Ojo-Aromokudu
Drawing on an ethnography of Nigerian migrant motherhood in London, we explore how the original design of children's health records, known as the Red Book, to log routine vaccinations has been transformed to document family proof of residen...
Dána-Ain Davis
Dána-Ain Davis