Search Results - "Medical anthropology quarterly"

What Went Wrong: Corona and the World after the Full Stop by Caduff, Carlo

“…This article examines the global response to the Covid‐19 pandemic. It argues that we urgently need to look beyond the virus if we want to understand the real…”
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Reworking the Social Determinants of Health: Responding to Material‐Semiotic Indeterminacy in Public Health Interventions by Yates‐Doerr, Emily

“…Both public health experts and medical anthropologists are concerned with how health is shaped by environmental forces. This creates an important…”
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Re‐racialization of Addiction and the Redistribution of Blame in the White Opioid Epidemic by Mendoza, Sonia, Rivera, Allyssa Stephanie, Hansen, Helena Bjerring

“…New York City has the largest number of opioid dependent people of U.S. cities, and within New York, Whites have the highest rate of prescription opioid and…”
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Care in Trouble: Ecologies of Support from Below and Beyond by Duclos, Vincent, Criado, Tomás Sánchez

“…Over the last decades, care has proliferated as a notion aimed at capturing a vast array of practices, conditions, and sentiments. In this article, we argue…”
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Hydroxychloroquine Controversies: Clinical Trials, Epistemology, and the Democratization of Science by Berlivet, Luc, Löwy, Ilana

“…The claim that anti‐malaria drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, can cure COVID‐19 became a focus of fierce political battles that pitted promoters of…”
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"Just One Thing after Another": Recursive Cascades and Chronic Conditions by Manderson, Lenore, Warren, Narelle

“…Chronic conditions and their resultant difficulties in daily living frequently occur with other health problems, sometimes due to interactions or complications…”
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Obstetrics in a Time of Violence: Mexican Midwives Critique Routine Hospital Practices by Zacher Dixon, Lydia

“…Mexican midwives have long taken part in a broader Latin American trend to promote "humanized birth" as an alternative to medicalized interventions in hospital…”
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Social Cultivation of Vaccine Refusal and Delay among Waldorf (Steiner) School Parents by Sobo, Elisa J.

“…U.S. media reports suggest that vastly disproportionate numbers of un- and under-vaccinated children attend Waldorf (private alternative) schools. After…”
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Introduction: Human Animal Health in Medical Anthropology by Brown, Hannah, Nading, Alex M.

“…This introductory article maps out the parameters of an emerging field of medical anthropology, human animal health, and its potential for reorienting the…”
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The Redistribution of Reproductive Responsibility: On the Epigenetics of “Environment” in Prenatal Interventions by Valdez, Natali

“…The rapidly shifting field of epigenetics has expanded scientific understanding of how environmental conditions affect gene expression and development. This…”
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Beyond Comorbidity: A Critical Perspective of Syndemic Depression and Diabetes in Cross-cultural Contexts by Mendenhall, Emily

“…This article examines the comorbidity concept in medical anthropology. I argue that the dearth of articles on comorbidity in medical anthropology may result…”
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Only Near Is Dear? Doing Elderly Care with Everyday ICTs in Indian Transnational Families by Ahlin, Tanja

“…In Kerala, South India, young people, especially women, are encouraged to become nurses in order to migrate abroad for work and thereby improve the financial…”
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The Unbearable Whiteness of Citational Practice in US Medical Anthropology by Davis, Dána‐Ain, Mulla, Sameena

“…In this article, we examine the citational practices of US medical anthropology and seek to decenter Western‐centric theory to minimize its theoretical…”
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Towards a social determination of health framework for understanding climate disruption and health‐disease processes by Hasemann Lara, José Enrique, Díaz de León, Alejandra, Daser, Deniz, Doering‐White, John, Frank‐Vitale, Amelia

“…We compare the social determinants of health (SDOH) and the social determination of health (SDET) from the school of Latin American Social Medicine/Collective…”
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Irrational acts: Maternal death, women's agency, and the obligation to care in Uganda by Boyd, Lydia

“…Following the recommendation of the WHO in the mid-2000s, the Ugandan government banned traditional birth attendants (TBAs) and encouraged all women to give…”
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Talking morphine: Pain and prognosis in Indian cancer care by Surawy-Stepney, Nickolas

“…Pain can be a pervasive feature of cancer, particularly in regions such as India, where the disease is rarely detected in its early stages. Yet over recent…”
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The worlds of public health, anthropological excursions By DidierFassin, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. 2023. 274 pp by Rekhis, Mayssa, Holmes, Seth M.

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Ayahuasca as liquid divinity: An ontological approach By André van der Braak, Lanham: Lexington Books. 2023. 229 pp by Harris, Shana

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Circumcision and medicine in modern Turkey By OymanBasaran, Austin: University of Texas Press. 2023. 232 pp by Sanal, Aslihan

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Landscapes of care: Immigration and health in rural America By ThurkaSangaramoorthy, Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. 2023. 173 pp by Carpenter‐Song, Elizabeth

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