The Bubble-Bathification of Self-Care: Problematizing Possibilities for Restful Mental Health in Canada [0.03%]
加拿大心理健康放松的可能性:批判泡澡式自我关怀现象
Loa Gordon
Loa Gordon
As radical genres of self-care are co-opted under neoliberal logics, I track an emerging "bubble-bathification" of self-care, which foregrounds rest as a therapeutic avenue toward mental health. Fieldwork at Canadian universities demonstrat...
Attuning to Global Health: Health Data Infrastructuring, Epidemiological Accountability and Digital Labor in Ghana [0.03%]
全球健康视角下的卫生数据基础设施、流行病学责任和加纳的数字劳动
Alena Thiel,Lars Rune Christensen
Alena Thiel
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among Ghanaian officials and international developers in the field of health information systems, we investigate how innovations in health data infrastructures are aligned with global practices of epidemiol...
The Transcendent Patterning of Medical Pluralism: Religion and Medical Practices Among Miao Migrants in China [0.03%]
中国苗族移民的宗教与医学实践——超越多元医学的格局
Shixian Wen,Orlando Woods,Quan Gao
Shixian Wen
Based on ethnographic fieldwork on the medical practices of Miao internal migrants in China, in this article we critique the hierarchical and discrete ontologies of "pluralism" prevalent in anthropological studies of medical pluralism. It e...
Coming-Around: Living with Lung Cancer on the Nether Side of Rehabilitation in Denmark [0.03%]
劫后余生:丹麦肺康复治疗受试者的生活体验研究
Mikala Erlik,Malene Missel,Morten Quist et al.
Mikala Erlik et al.
Inequality in cancer is often framed as disparities in mortality, incidence, and treatment. Cancer rehabilitation aims to help people live the best possible life with cancer, regardless of their background. In this study, I explore how peop...
Uncertainty, Temporality, and Negotiations: Experiencing Rare Diseases in Europe [0.03%]
不确定性、时间感与谈判:欧洲罕见病体验
Nicoletta Diasio,Małgorzata Rajtar
Nicoletta Diasio
After Antibiotics - Events, Episodes and the Veterinization of UK Livestock [0.03%]
抗生素之后——事件、时事与英国畜禽兽医化现象
Stephen Hinchliffe
Stephen Hinchliffe
As antimicrobial use is more tightly regulated, animal medicine is under pressure. Drawing on UK fieldwork with veterinarians, farmers, and animal health providers, this article examines how animal health practices are being reorganized. It...
The Care of Deeply Significant Insignificant Things: An Ethnographic Study of Palliative Care in Malta [0.03%]
善待无足轻重却意义深远的事物——马耳他姑息性护理的民族志研究
Kurt Cassar
Kurt Cassar
In Malta, palliative care is often seen by nurses, policymakers and others as care of doing nothing. In my study, I demonstrate how nurses working in a palliative care unit attend to what, in the Maltese language, are called ċuċati: seemi...
Therapeutic Trajectories of Kenyan Queer Men with Anal Warts: Iatrogenesis in a Time of Homophobia [0.03%]
肯尼亚男同性恋尖锐湿疣患者的治疗轨迹:艾滋病恐惧症时代的医源性损害
Matthew Thomann,John Maina Wambui,Pascal Macharia et al.
Matthew Thomann et al.
Human papillomavirus (HPV)-related anal infection is high among African gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM). In Kenya, queer men living with HPV-related anal warts often avoid health facilities, fearing homophobic retal...
Aliens, Scientific Methods and Risks. Health Care Professionals Opposed to Vaccination Against COVID-19 in Argentina [0.03%]
外星人、科学方法和风险。阿根廷反对COVID-19疫苗的医护人员
Juan Pablo Zabala,Pablo R Kreimer
Juan Pablo Zabala
We analyze the ways in which different researchers and health professionals in Argentina (physicians, biochemists, epidemiologists) develop their arguments against mass vaccination against COVID-19. In particular, we explore how these posit...
Ophra Leyser-Whalen
Ophra Leyser-Whalen
Utilizing a symbolic interactionist lens in analysis of 16 in-depth interviews with 13 women and three men who had used fertility treatments in the United States, I reveal how the uterus was a powerful symbol for those struggling with infer...