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Anthropology and/of Mental Health Part 1 Society for Cultural

WEBBeatriz Reyes-Foster, PhD is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Central. Florida. A sociocultural and medical anthropologist, she is the …

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Society for Cultural Anthropology Anthropology and/of Mental …

WEBJune 25, 2020. Publication Information Expand. The “Anthropology and/of Mental Health” series is a two-part exploration of anthropologists' experiences with mental health. In …

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Microbial Management Society for Cultural Anthropology

WEBTomoko referred here to the microbiome, a focus of medical and social scientific research in recent years. Microbes are essential for human health, and they …

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View of Life before Vegetables: Nutrition, Cash, and Subjunctive …

WEBThe slippery quality of vegetables—as objects of wealth and health—reflects the particular interstices of development and public health institutions that demonstrate how public …

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Life before Vegetables: Nutrition, Cash, and Subjunctive Health in

WEBSince the 1950s, Samoa has faced rapid changes in food systems and labor practices, creating an environment in which health conditions such as diabetes touch every …

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What is Communicable

WEBLong-accepted models of causality cast diseases into the binary of either “contagious” or “non-communicable,” typically with institutional resources focused primarily on …

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Multispecies Care in the Sixth Extinction Society for Cultural

WEBIn response to recent critical investigations of practices and labors of care, this collection of essays explores how attention to multispecies care contributes to …

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Through the Body of the Midwife Cultural Anthropology

WEBThe question of how to build trust in health care is one that faces health-care workers and public health actors around the world. This article illustrates how midwives in …

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Embodied Ecologies Society for Cultural Anthropology

WEBThe materiality of human bodies at the smallest scales—genes, microbes, chemicals, hormones—is increasingly being understood as both responsive to broader …

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Introduction: Embodied Ecologies

WEBIntroduction: Embodied Ecologies. Photo by Franck Genten, licensed under CC BY NC ND. The materiality of human bodies at the smallest scales—genes, …

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Rule by Good People: Health Governance and the Violence of …

WEBThis article rethinks the presumed translatability of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) health promotion models and explores the unintended consequences of their global …

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Society for Cultural Anthropology Prenatal Health in Cuba: What’s…

WEBCuban prenatal health policy thus explicitly ties biological reproduction and the reproduction of socialism together through the language of social costs and …

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Society for Cultural Anthropology From Ebola to Plague and …

WEBThis global health mobilization is reminiscent of what was seen in West Africa from 2014 to 2016 in response to the Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic. This …

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Society for Cultural Anthropology Ayurveda in the …

WEBThe abbreviation AYUSH encompasses Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha, Homeopathy, Naturopathy, Sowa Rigpa, and the more capacious “folk healing” systems. …

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Necropolitics versus Biopolitics: Spatialization, White Privilege, and

WEBAnthropologists have used Michel Foucault’s thesis on biopolitics to critique modern institutions. Yet while useful, biopolitics is often misapplied. The arrests, killings of …

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Asian Medicines and Covid-19: An Introduction

WEBStill, Covid-19 has propelled all of us into new and uncharted territory, at once scholarly and personal. With the current pandemic, scholars have taken to online …

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Society for Cultural Anthropology Translation of Beijing's…

WEBA nationwide recommendation from February 18, 2020, by The National Hygiene and Health Committee of the P.R. China, as well as Beijing’s sixth and seventh …

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Society for Cultural Anthropology Covid-19 in Kerala: Nature …

WEBOn January 30, 2020, Kerala became the first Indian state to diagnose a patient with Covid-19. In a February Facebook post—now removed—Mohanan Vaidyar …

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AnthroPod Talks Abortion Society for Cultural Anthropology

WEBFollowing the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, nearly half of the U.S. population stands to lose access …

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