Negotiating Identities in the COVID-19 Crisis: The Global-Local Dilemma of Medical Epidemiologists in Taiwan [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情下的身份谈判：台湾医学流行病学家的全球化与本土化困境
Shao-Hua Liu
Shao-Hua Liu
Taiwan, internationally acclaimed for its early success in COVID-19 control, credits its robust system of medical epidemiologists as pivotal. This article examines how these physicians were caught between the professionalism of global healt...
Elly Teman,Orit Chorowicz Bar-Am
Elly Teman
This article revisits questions about the womb's role in conferring Jewish identity in Israel. Judaism is transmitted matrilineally, yet orthodox rabbis increasingly view babies from non-Jewish eggs as requiring conversion. Through intervie...
A Bogotana House of the Spirits: Venezuelan and Colombian HIV/AIDS Biosociality Beyond-the-Living [0.03%]
超越生死：委内瑞拉和哥伦比亚的艾滋病生物社会性
Rebecca Irons
Rebecca Irons
Biosociality is often referenced regarding those living with HIV/AIDS, but scholarship takes for granted that these relationships exist between living beings. Based on long-term ethnography in refuge houses for Venezuelan migrants and Colom...
Value-Scapes of Death: Livestock Veterinarians and the Regulation of Farm Animal Life in the Netherlands [0.03%]
牲畜执业兽医的生死价值观：荷兰农场动物生命的监管者视角研究
Else Vogel
Else Vogel
This article examines the crucial role of veterinarians in making animal death valuable, enabling productive life, and managing uncontrolled dying. Based on ethnographic fieldwork on dairy farms in the Netherlands, and considering veterinar...
Maurice Eisenbruch
Maurice Eisenbruch
Responses to the threat of COVID-19 have unveiled the underlying cultural theories of contagion across various countries. In Cambodia, erecting scarecrows has emerged as a popular response. This ethnographic study on contagious diseases and...
Patient Involvement and Rare Diseases in Italy: Narratives, Spirituality, and Legitimation in Healthcare [0.03%]
意大利的患者参与和罕见病：医疗保健中的叙述、精神世界及合法性
Ilaria E Lesmo
Ilaria E Lesmo
Public representations of rare diseases often depict patients as neglected and isolated. In response, initiatives promoting patient involvement have emerged, with illness narratives considered as key tools. However, the relationship between...
"Is This Violence?" Subtlety, Doubt, and the Struggle to Narrate Transgressive Behavior in Denmark [0.03%]
“这是暴力吗？”——以丹麦为例探究越界行为叙述中的微妙性、疑虑及叙述斗争
Ida Nielsen Sølvhøj
Ida Nielsen Sølvhøj
Based on multi-sited fieldwork in Denmark, I explore how Danish women and men negotiate their positions as potential victims of intimate partner violence: in particular, psychological violence. First, focusing on retrospective stories about...
Diagnostic Moments in the Rare Disease Life Narratives of Mitochondrial Disease Patients in Germany [0.03%]
德国线粒体病患者的罕见疾病生命叙述中的诊断时刻
Jacquelyne Luce
Jacquelyne Luce
I draw on interviews I conducted in Germany with four individuals who were eventually diagnosed with mitochondrial disease, a category of rare neurogenetic disorders. Rather than the diagnosis of mitochondrial disease serving as a threshold...
Remedios Caseros: Imperative Resilience Among Mexican Immigrants in the Bronx (USA) During the COVID-19 Pandemic [0.03%]
居家良方：新冠疫情下的美国布朗克斯区墨西哥移民的必要韧性
María Hernández,Alyshia Gálvez,Sandra Verdaguer et al.
María Hernández et al.
Communities with already high rates of non-communicable diseases, including Mexican immigrants living in the Bronx, were burdened further by the novel coronavirus. In this context, many individuals sought ways to prevent and mitigate sympto...
Immigrants to Health: Negotiating Liminality and Belonging with Cystic Fibrosis in Germany [0.03%]
从健康移民到疾病移民：德国囊性纤维化患者的身份 negotiation 和归属感 limburg 性体验
Stefan Reinsch
Stefan Reinsch
Cystic fibrosis is a rare genetic disease that significantly reduces life expectancy. Therapy can delay the progression of the disease, but it is onerous, time-consuming and makes the disease more visible, creating a sense of not belonging ...