Search Results - "Medicine Anthropology Theory"

The Glass Witness​: Visual and Tactile Engagements with Online Medical Crowdfunding by Wardell, Susan

“…Donation-based crowdfunding platforms invite people to tell stories of unmet health needs in a hybrid form—using both words and images—but research to date has…”
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Pandemic and Politicisation in Argentina: Nursing Professional Trajectories in the Conurbano Bonaerense Region by Pozzio, Maria, Testa, Daniela

“…The article analyses the politicisation of nursing personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina, focusing on the trajectories of nurses trained in the…”
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Mother of All Labour: Vulnerability and Immunity in Times of Ebola by Gomez-Temesio, Veronica

“…Wonkifong Ebola treatment unit was unique at the time of the outbreak that hit the Guinea in 2014. Contrary to other infrastructures run by Western workers,…”
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Psychoactive Agents​: Drugs, Morality, and Responsibility by Carrier, Neil, Ermansons, Guntars

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Labile Bodies​: A Hospital Ethnography of Medical Professionals’ Struggles in Deceased Organ Donation by Bea, Sara

“…This article presents an ethnographic study of the donor body in deceased organ donation. Drawing on the science and technology studies’ incitement to study…”
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Sugar, A Morally Ambiguous Substance: Responsibility, Social Class and Pleasure in Scotland’s State Primary Schools by Bevan, Imogen

“…Children’s sugar consumption has been marked out as an important area of public health policymaking in the UK, due to connections between sugar consumption,…”
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Making Homes in a Nursing Facility in Athens by Papadaki, Eirini

“…This Photo Essay seeks to visualise the room-homes of the residents in one of the largest semi-public nursing homes in Athens, Greece. Unlike in other…”
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Of Truths and Snakes: The Percussive Effects of Asylum Seeking in Australia by Arambewela-Colley, Nadeeka

“…Australia’s border hardened stance has created a culture of asylum prevention, providing a rationale for the use of defence and security as the core argument…”
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Solace of Substance​: Agency, Surrender, and Consolation in Addiction and Polydrug Use by Roe, Laura

“…Although preceding its association with substance use, early uses of the term ‘addiction’ signified intense attachment or ‘devotion’ to an activity or pursuit,…”
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UK Khat Prohibition and the Making of a Harmful Drug by Ermansons, Guntars

“…This article delves into the complex dynamics of khat (Catha edulis) prohibition in the UK, with a particular focus on a Somali community in north-west London…”
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Hope and Haunting Images: The Imaginary in Danish Parkinson’s Disease Rehabilitation by Tonnesen, Merete, Nielsen, Claus Vinther

“…Much in life is imagined: hoped for, dreamed about, or dreaded, as we engage with potential futures. Parkinson’s disease is a progressive and…”
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The Role of Affective Labour in Expertise: Bringing Emotions Back into Expert Practices by Egher, Claudia, Carboni, Chiara, Wehrens, Rik

“…In recent years, a lot of scholarly attention has been devoted to how practices of digitalisation and datafication require medical professionals to work…”
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A Potent Chew?: Kenyan Khat and the Agency of Drugs by Carrier, Neil

“…Few other categories of things appear so bound up with questions of agency, power and responsibility as that of ‘drugs’. With over a century of global treaties…”
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Seeking Knowledge in and for Troubled Times: The Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology, MAT, and a Shared Vision by Editorial Collective

“…Editorial for the September Issue, 2024…”
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Grave Reverberations: Inherited Colonial Logics during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines by Docot, Dada, Go, Matthew C.

“…Using the theory of reverberations, we track the dissonant transformation of sanitation regimes during the American colonial period in the Philippines,…”
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Invoking Senghor​: Universal Healthcare Coverage and the Place of Culture in Senegal by Wood, Anna

“…Senegal introduced Couverture Maladie Universelle (CMU), its version of universal health coverage (UHC), in 2013, basing it on the establishment of mutual…”
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The Butt of the Joke​: Humour and Queer Care at an Anal Dysplasia Clinic by Robertson, William J

“…Based on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork I conducted at an anal cancer prevention clinic in Chicago, USA, this article considers queer camp humour as a…”
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Pluralising Cancer by Davies, Elspeth

“…This Review essay seeks to interrogate the vast category of ‘cancer’. Taken together, the three books explored here pluralise cancer, locating it not just in…”
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Cultivating Care​: Notes from a Mental Health Organisation in India by Ganguly, Tuhina

“…This Field Note reflects on the ethics and work of professional mental health care in the context of a non-profit counselling organisation in the city of…”
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Concerning ‘Neglect’​: Perspectives on the Prioritisation of Mental Health Conditions in Protracted Displacement Contexts by Ghafoerkhan, Rina, Lowe, Lucy, Nieuwe Weme, David, Griede, Elise, Jeffery, Laura

“…‘Neglect’ is a lucrative concept attracting billions of US dollars in research and development funding and transforming what is prioritised in global health…”
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