Indigenous narratives of HIV/AIDS: morality and blame in a time of change [0.03%]
艾滋病流行背景下的原住民叙事：变迁时期的道德观与责备心理
Felicity Thomas
Felicity Thomas
While it is increasingly recognized that contextually relevant HIV prevention and AIDS mitigation interventions are more likely to succeed than enforced generic strategies, relatively little attention has been given to understanding the man...
Heather T Battles,Lenore Manderson
Heather T Battles
Questions regarding access to and the use of medical and surgical treatment for people with disabilities revisit themes central to medical anthropology. The "Ashley Treatment" is named after a nine-year-old girl, Ashley, who has extreme phy...
Ellen Badone
Ellen Badone
Through the lens of an illness narrative, this article focuses on the complex relationships between biomedicine and alternative therapies in Brittany, France. Themes drawn from the illness narrative highlight Breton ideas about the body, th...
Who's judging the quality of care? Indigenous Maya and the problem of "not being attended" [0.03%]
谁在评判护理质量？玛雅人的困境：“没有得到应有的关注”
Nicole S Berry
Nicole S Berry
In developing countries, lack of trust in the quality of care provided is often cited as a major factor promoting reluctance to seek biomedical help for obstetric emergencies. This article draws on fieldwork among Mayan informants in Solol...
Beyond decision making: class, community organizations, and the healthwork of people living with HIV/AIDS. Contributions from institutional ethnographic research [0.03%]
超越决策：阶级、社区组织与艾滋病患者的身体资本积累——制度民族志的视角
Eric Mykhalovskiy
Eric Mykhalovskiy
The consolidation of antiretroviral therapy as the primary biomedical response to HIV infection in the global North has occasioned a growing interest in the health decision making of people living with HIV (PHAs). This interest is burdened ...
Reconsidering the allure of the culturally distant in therapy seeking: a case study from coastal Tanzania [0.03%]
从坦桑尼亚沿海地区的一个案例研究再思考治疗寻求中文化疏远的吸引力
Vinay R Kamat
Vinay R Kamat
This article examines two seemingly contradictory notions found in the anthropological literature that address so-called traditional healers. First, it suggests that despite their purportedly holistic approach, healers in coastal Tanzania m...
João Biehl
João Biehl
I am interested in the arts of government that accompany economic globalization and in the remaking of populations as market segments (specifically therapeutic markets). Using the Brazilian response to AIDS as an ethnographic baseline, I ex...