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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Aug 10

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Aug 10

The research presented in this issue takes us to #Germany, #France, #Poland & #Italy. Available here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/gmea20/4...

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LIVING WITH RARE DISEASES IN EUROPE: UNCERTAINTY, NEGOTIATIONS, AND TEMPORALITY. Volume 44, Issue 5 of Medical Anthropology

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Aug 10

The issue includes 6 research articles, covering themes such as mitochondrial disease, Turner syndrome, Rhabdomyolysis, Cystic Fibrosis, and #spirituality.

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Aug 10

The introduction, by Diasio and Rajtar, emphasizes how the contributors attend to those dimensions of rare diseases that are usually situated outside health policy and biomedical purview. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Uncertainty, Temporality, and Negotiations: Experiencing Rare Diseases in Europe

Published in Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness (Vol. 44, No. 5, 2025)

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Aug 10

Issue 5’s title is: “Living with Rare Diseases in Europe: Uncertainty, Negotiations, and Temporality.” www.tandfonline.com/toc/gmea20/4...

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LIVING WITH RARE DISEASES IN EUROPE: UNCERTAINTY, NEGOTIATIONS, AND TEMPORALITY. Volume 44, Issue 5 of Medical Anthropology

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Aug 10

The editorial by Ellen Foley, the discussant of the 2022 panel “Landscapes of Surveillance Care in Reproductive Health” reminds us: “surveillance-care is good to think with, particularly as the effects of surveillance-care are far from foregone conclusions.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Commentary on Over-Looked Spaces: Theorizing Surveillance-Care in Reproductive Health

Published in Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness (Vol. 44, No. 3, 2025)

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Aug 10

The research presented takes us to North Carolina/ #USA, #Tanzania, #France and #Senegal.

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Aug 10

The issue features 6 research articles and one editorial, covering themes such as #abortion, childbirth, medically assisted reproductive care, self-testing and pregnancies, men’s #maternal support, and #bureaucracy.

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Aug 10

Read the introduction by the editors, @dtpowis.bsky.social ky.social & @adriennestrong.bsky.social l‬: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Over-looked Spaces: Theorizing Surveillance Care in Reproductive Health

At the 2022 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Seattle, WA, we organized a session called “Landscapes of Surveillance Care in Reproductive Health.” This introduction to o...

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Aug 10

Issue 3, on Surveillance and Care, builds on a discussion which began at @americananthro.bsky.social in 2002 to explore ways that surveillance and care play upon each other in ethnographic research and what we might learn from them. www.tandfonline.com/toc/gmea20/4...

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SURVEILLANCE-CARE. Volume 44, Issue 3 of Medical Anthropology

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Aug 10

Have you read the two recent Special Issues published by @medanthropology.bsky.social ?

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Feb 26

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Feb 26

Taking us to Dar es Salaam, Inga Haaland and Karama Ogillo explore how PrEP users experience novel types of (social) risks and harms, or social iatrogenesis, imposed by the biomedical #HIV prevention pill or the PrEP program.

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Social Iatrogenesis and Social Risks Among Queer PrEP Users in Dar Es Salaam

Pre-exposure prophylaxis, commonly known as PrEP, is an HIV-preventative pill taken to reduce the risk of contracting HIV. During a PrEP study in Dar es Salaam among queer PrEP users, this ethnogra...

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Feb 26

The history of #HIV #AIDS is often told from the Global North. @benjhegarty.bsky.social & co take us to an Indonesian transgender community (waria) to show how ethn. accounts of other HIV/AIDS histories can help us rethink fundamental global health concepts.

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Research, HIV/AIDS, and Turning Waria into a Key Population in Indonesia: An Ethnographic Oral History

The history of HIV/AIDS is often told from the Global North, a viewpoint that is naturalized in policies and programs that privilege biomedical models of treatment and prevention. This article expl...

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Feb 26

As a lens and practice in global and #publichealth, emergency may enable, drive, and influence change in governmental disease management.

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“Canary in the Coal Mine”: Hope and Emergency in the Management of Measles

Exploring the relationship between governmental infectious disease management and emergency systems, I examine the turn to emergency in European measles management during the resurgence of the dise...

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Feb 26

How do we conceptualise emergency in times of a public health crisis? Michael Rabi’s examination of the measles crisis in Europe (2017-20) shows how emergency constitutes a multitude of coexisting governmental relations that shape structures...

“Canary in the Coal Mine”: Hope and Emergency in the Management of Measles

Exploring the relationship between governmental infectious disease management and emergency systems, I examine the turn to emergency in European measles management during the resurgence of the dise...

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Feb 26

Drawing on many other interviews w/ social workers, and reflecting on Paul Ricouer’s concept of little ethics, Todd Ebling & Thomas Malaby offer us a lens to examine the forging and negotiation of moral relationships of care and shared vulnerability. #openaccess

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Solicitude and Solitude: Care, Ethics, and the Vulnerability of Front-Line Social Work in the US

The moral terrain of caring in a social work context is often treacherous. During ethnographic fieldwork with front-line workers at an organization providing services for unhoused individuals in a ...

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Feb 26

“And how the hell do you go on every day? And how do you not think about that in everything else you’re doing in life?” argues a social worker in the USA. The quote is a testament to the shared moral burdens which continue to bear heavily on many front-line social work staff...

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Feb 26

Breast/gynaecological #cancer predisposition testing in #Spain goes beyond med. diagnostics. Argudo-Portal shows how an anthropology of testing plays less expected roles in decaying healthcare systems through the production of low-risk collectives.. #openaccess

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Testing Ecology: Breast and Gynecological Cancer Predisposition Tests and the National Healthcare System in Spain

This research asks what is being put to the test by breast and gynecological cancer predisposition testing in Spain beyond genes or cancer. By combining document analysis and fieldwork with nationa...

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Feb 26

Drawing on data obtained from 54 interviews with OB-GYNs practicing in #USA states, Buchbinder & Sabbath reflect on the notion of obstetric harm, including the behind-the-scenes work of state legislators to shape how OB-GYNs experience such harm. #openaccess

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Reproductive Healthcare After Dobbs: Rethinking Obstetric Harm in the United States

The obstetric violence framework proposes that clinicians harm pregnant people through physical and psychological mistreatment and violations of autonomy. In this article, we analyze interviews wit...

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Feb 26

3) a slow and gradual rather than revolutionary shift will continue to de-center Medical Anthropology from its moorings in the Global North, as scholars in the Global South remake the discipline anew, to confront challenges from their own perspectives.

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Feb 26

Medical anthropology has changed & will continue to do soHow? 1) transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral collaborations will become increasingly more common; 2), some of the themes that have already come into focus will become unavoidable; ...

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Feb 26

In their editorial, @jamesstaples.bsky.social and Rebecca Marsland write about how their journey, as editors, has evolved since they accepted this role in 2020, the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. #openaccess

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Medical Anthropology Past, Present, and Future: The State of the Art

Published in Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness (Vol. 44, No. 1, 2025)

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Feb 26

It is our pleasure to share with you the summary of articles published in the most recent issue of Medical Anthropology, Vol 44, Issue 1.

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Volume 44, Issue 1 of Medical Anthropology

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