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Join our community and nominate yourself for the Executive Board positions! More info here: medanthro.net/2026-sma-exe... #anthropology #MedicalAnthropology #SocietyForMedicalAnthropology #SMA
2026 SMA Executive Board Call for Nominations  – Society for Medical Anthropology
The Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA) is calling for nominations to fill the following five positions on the SMA Executive Board:
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February 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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New from Laura Burke:
Concealed coexistence: Reproductive choice and coercion in Timor-Leste doi.org/10.1111/maq....

#MedicalAnthropology #FeministDemography
January 30, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBAL IMMUNIZATION: Vaccine Politics and Realities in Ethnographic Perspective, edited by Rebecca Irons, Sahra Gibbon, Joanna Cook and Aaron Parkhurst has now been published!

Find out more here: bit.ly/3MDjX0K

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January 27, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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Colleagues, I’m an archaeologist again teaching my #BiologicalAnthropology intro class- what are some recent beloved and admired studies I can use to introduce applied bioanth to undergrads? In #MedicalAnthropology, #MolecularAnthro, #biomechanics, #HumanDiversity? @bioanth.bsky.social colleagues?
January 21, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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The Medical Anthropologists & Social Scientists in Health (MASSH) TIG is planning for our upcoming annual meeting in Albuquerque.

To learn more about the MASSH TIG, visit appliedanthro.org/membership/t...

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January 21, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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The Medical Anthropologists & Social Scientists in Health (MASSH) TIG is planning for our upcoming annual meeting in Albuquerque.

To learn more about the MASSH TIG, visit appliedanthro.org/membership/t...

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January 21, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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Happy New Year everyone! May you enjoy 2026 like we enjoyed our awards ceremony at the #AAA2025! #anthropology #MedicalAnthropology #SMA #ethnography
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January 13, 2026 at 5:32 AM
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A REVELATORY PANDEMIC: Crisis, Agency, and COVID in Latin America, edited by Roberto Barrios and Virginia García-Acosta has now been published!

Find out more here: bit.ly/43ACJeT

#MedicalAnthropology #PoliticalAnthropology #EconomicAnthropology #Sociology
December 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Texas A&M Anthropology's Professor Allison Hopkins and former Anthropology undergraduate (and current medical student) Esha Uddaraju were featured in ArtSci to discuss the Medical Anthropology study abroad in Spain and high-impact learning!
#Anthrosky #Spain #studyabroad #medicalanthropology #TAMU
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November 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Congrats to Gabriela Morales for the New Millenium Book Award honorable
mention for her book ‘Decolonizing Medicine: Indigenous Politics and the Practice of Care in Bolivia!’ #anthropology #MedicalAnthropology #AAA25
Book cover for Gabriela Elisa Morales’s book ‘Decolonizing Medicine: Indigenous Politics and the Practice of Care in Bolivia.’
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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The Eileen Basker Memorial Prize honorable mention went to Jaya Keaney for her book ‘Making Gaybies: Queer Reproduction and Multiracial Feeling!’ #anthropology #MedicalAnthropology #AAA25
Book cover for Jaya Keaney’s book ‘Making Gaybies: Queer Reproduction and Multiracial Feeling.’
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Huge congrats to @eyatesd.bsky.social for winning the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize for her book ‘Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm!’ #anthropology #MedicalAnthropology #AAA25
Book cover for Emily Yates-Doerr’s book ‘Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm.’
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Today we are starting our weekly prompt - a future tradition we are hoping you’ll like! Share books and/or articles you have read last week that have sparked your interest 🥸 #MedicalAnthropology #anthropology #ethnography #SocialScience #nonfiction
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November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF PSYCHOLOGY: Ethnographic Studies of Psychological Healthcare, edited by Mikkel Kenni Bruun and Rebecca Hutten @rhutten.bsky.social has now been published!

Find out more here: bit.ly/3VhGHV7

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October 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Incredible reporting on PFAS and 3M's coverup of their spread, accumulation, ability to be passed to babies, and harm. Having difficulty deciding which syllabus to add this to. Maybe several.

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#EnvironmentalJustice is #ReproductiveJustice
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Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
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October 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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October 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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September 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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September 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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September 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Has any physician ever discussed #guthealth or social changes / existential issues with you when giving the diagnosis #depression? #medicalanthropology

This ariticle has some medication views but there is other research proving some of the points wrong.

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September 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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For #WorldBreastfeedingWeek, we're spotlighting NIGHTTIME BREASTFEEDING: An American Cultural Dilemma by Cecília Tomori ( @drtomori.bsky.social): bit.ly/3UczkxF

This title has a free introduction & the paperback is on sale!

Review by @anthropologica.bsky.social

#MedicalAnthropology #GenderStudies
August 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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AU Anthropology is hiring!

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Assistant Professor of Anthropology
American University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani...
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August 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Healing Plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians
Co-Authors: Alice Micco Snow and Susan Enns Stans
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Healing Plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians Co-Authors: Alice Micco Snow and Susan Enns Stans
July 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM