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But are they actually healthier
WEBA holistic definition of ‘health’ remains difficult to operationalize, despite decades of attempts by medical anthropologists and the World Health Organization to do so. Anthropologists routinely reject dichotomous notions – belief vs. knowledge, wellness vs. health, mental vs. physical, environment vs. self – yet demands for physiological …
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View of Theorizing global health Medicine Anthropology Theory
WEBWe live in interconnected, yet also radically unequal, insecure, and unhealthy worlds: exhausted worlds. The spread of infectious disease across borders, struggles over access to treatments, and the rise in chronic disease pose highly complex and often unpredictable challenges – realities that are, time and again, couched in the vocabulary of emergency, …
Medicine Anthropology Theory
WEBMedicine Anthropology Theory is an English-language, fully open access journal hosted by the University of Edinburgh. It publishes R esearch Articles, Position Pieces, Reviews, and Field Notes in medical anthropology, the anthropology of biomedicine, critical global health studies, medical humanities, and science and technology studies.
Moving medicine inside the neighborhood Medicine …
WEBThis article focuses on the spatial significance of health care access, analyzing how state health programs effected sociospatial transformations in poor urban neighborhoods in Caracas, Venezuela. Starting in 2003, the leftist state constructed a parallel public health system to shift biomedical care from hospital emergency rooms to …
Health beyond the carbon barrier Medicine Anthropology Theory
WEBSilicon Valley donors have been investing heavily in a range of transhumanist longevity and immortality ventures. Theirs is a particular, culturally embedded endeavor, shaped by specific histories, ideologies, and futures that present new posthuman views of life, death, and survival. These projects aim for a future world in which the …
About the Journal Medicine Anthropology Theory
WEBAbout Medicine Anthropology Theory is an English-language, fully open access journal hosted by the University of Edinburgh that publishes scholarly articles, position pieces, reviews, and notes from the field r elated to the areas of medical anthropology, the anthropology of biomedicine, critical global health studies, medical humanities, and …
Introduction Medicine Anthropology Theory
WEBAbstract. As an emerging subfield of medical anthropology with roots in histories and geographies of colonial and international health, critical global health studies reflects both changing modes of health practice and the centering of critique as a core anthropological endeavor. This special section seeks to analyze and reflect on the …
Stigmatized places as therapeutic landscapes Medicine …
WEBUrban rivers in the United States have frequently been sites of long-term homeless encampments. Recent efforts to ‘restore’ these marginal waterways have focused on removing such camps, an approach that is justified in terms of concern for the health of both waterways and people. This article explores the intersection of landscape health …
Introduction Medicine Anthropology Theory
WEBThis collection of essays brings to light important themes in medical anthropology that have been eclipsed in recent years by theoretical turns toward problems of suffering, experience, and ontology (among others). Namely, they remind us of the importance of what was once popularly called the study of ‘ethnomedicine’.
Disease X and Africa: How a Scientific Metaphor Entered Popular
WEBIn 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the addition of Disease X, a hypothetical infectious threat, to its blueprint list of priority diseases. In the construction of discourse that circulated following this announcement, conceptions of Disease X intersected with representations of Africa. In our article, we share a broad …
On the coloniality of global public health Medicine Anthropology …
WEBThe continued inordinate demise from communicable pathogens in the global South is not the result of an intractable problem thwarting our best efforts to prevent and cure disease; we have the means. Rather, as an accomplice to contemporary imperialism, public health manages (as a profession) and maintains (as an academic discipline) …
Fluid illness Medicine Anthropology Theory
WEBIn response to the rising rate of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in Guatemala, the public health system established a national community-based dialysis program to enable people living in rural areas to complete treatment in their homes. Here we explore how this newly available, life-prolonging technology has altered local worlds …
After illness, under diagnosis Medicine Anthropology Theory
WEBA vast portion of the world’s population live with ill health following acute infection or disease and its emergency management. This reflects the increased capacity of technological innovations and pharmaceuticals to interrupt decline or complications, even when cure is unlikely. The authors in this Special Section illustrate how, in different …
Promises and perils of Guan Medicine Anthropology Theory
WEBThis article examines families’ involvement in the care and management of people with serious mental illnesses in China, and focuses on how that involvement is shaped by changing psychiatric institutions and law. Drawing on 32 months of fieldwork, I show that familial involvement is primarily characterised by guan [管], which can mean …
Opening up ‘fever’, closing down medicines Medicine …
WEBRising concerns about antimicrobial resistance have sparked a renewed push to rationalise and ration the use of medicines. This article explores the case of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) guideline, a periodically updated ‘global’ algorithm that shapes and normalises the centrality of medicines to care in low- and …
Structural vulnerabilities and healthcare services integration
WEBThis article draws on fieldwork from migrant communities and twenty-one ethnographic life histories told by HIV-positive Mozambicans in a major South African HIV clinic. From their collective narratives, a range of structural vulnerabilities are found that limit immigrants’ access to, and proper integration within, healthcare services.
View of Race, Racism and Anthropology: Decolonising Health …
WEBAbstract. In the United Kingdom, the government’s failure to consistently record the race and ethnicity of those who have died from COVID-19 and the disproportionate mortality impact of the virus on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities speaks to a systemic failure to account for the interplay between the social …
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