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Articles
14 Apr 2016
Biomedical packages
Adjusting drugs, bodies, and environment in a phase III clinical trial
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Charlotte Brives
Editorial Note
14 Apr 2016
Is the 21st century the age of biomedicalization?
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Eileen Moyer,
Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Articles
14 Apr 2016
Blessing unintended pregnancy
Religion and the discourse of women’s agency in public health
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Don Seeman,
Iman Roushdy-Hammady,
Annie Hardison-Moody,
Winnifred W. Thompson,
Laura M. Gaydos,
Carol J. Rowland Hogue
Think Pieces
14 Apr 2016
Longing for evidence-based traditions
Addiction treatment in Canada's Northwest Territories
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Lindsay Bell
Special Pieces
14 Apr 2016
Picturing homelessness
A glossary of perceptions
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Robert Desjarlais
Photo Essays
14 Apr 2016
Exploring the boundaries of public space in the urban north
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Travis Hedwig,
Rebecca Barker
Photo Essays
14 Apr 2016
Invisible places
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Justin Langille
Photo Essays
14 Apr 2016
Traces and spaces of those living on the margins of Milwaukee
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David Nelson,
Karen Nelson,
Jeanne Miller,
Mike Miller,
Maxwell Ramsey
Photo Essays
14 Apr 2016
At home in the margins
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Surita Parashar
Found in Translation
14 Apr 2016
Transabled women lost in translation?
An introduction to: ‘“Extreme” transformations: (Re)Thinking solidarities among social movements through the case of voluntary disability acquisition’
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Alexandre Baril,
Kathryn Trevenen
Book and Film Reviews
14 Apr 2016
Anthropologie du médicament au Sud
La pharmaceuticalisation à ses marges
Alice Desclaux and Marc Egrot
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Reviewed by Pierre-Marie David
Book and Film Reviews
14 Apr 2016
Clinical labor
Tissue donors and research subjects in the global bioeconomy
Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby
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Reviewed by Neil Singh
Book and Film Reviews
14 Apr 2016
Mushroom worlds and earth beings
A resurgence of postrepresentational anthropology
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Emily Yates-Doerr
Editorial Note
08 Apr 2016
Acknowledging the Palestinian public health crisis
Why signing onto BDS makes sense for medical anthropologists
Dissertating
24 Mar 2016
Exigencies in the field
Shifting social, political, and theoretical realities of health research in Niger
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Alison Heller
Editorial Note
18 Mar 2016
Books and films available for review
Think Pieces
03 Mar 2016
A desire for anorexia
Living through distress
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Anna Lavis
Dissertating
15 Feb 2016
When your method fails
Stumbling upon new questions
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Carla Pezzia
Conference Reports
03 Feb 2016
‘Have we become too ethical’?
Discussing research ethics and human vulnerability in an international context
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Marina Marouda,
Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner
Special Pieces
09 Dec 2015
Beyond ‘trauma’
Notes on mental health in the Middle East
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Orkideh Behrouzan
Special Pieces
09 Dec 2015
Recoiling from war again
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Michael M.J. Fischer
Special Pieces
09 Dec 2015
Understanding war trauma
The ecology of loss, the prison of isolation, the role of the outsider
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Jennifer Leaning
Articles
09 Dec 2015
Medicalization as a way of life
The Iran-Iraq War and considerations for psychiatry and anthropology
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Orkideh Behrouzan
Editorial Note
09 Dec 2015
(Re)Framing and the (medical) anthropological lens
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Eileen Moyer,
Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Articles
09 Dec 2015
When wounds travel
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Omar Dewachi
Articles
09 Dec 2015
The poet’s melancholy
Depression, structures of feeling, and creativity among Afghan refugees in Iran
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Zuzanna Olszewska
Think Pieces
09 Dec 2015
Beyond trauma, beyond humanitarianism, beyond empathy
A commentary
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Veena Das
Think Pieces
09 Dec 2015
‘Unknowing’ and mental health system reform in Palestine
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Hanna Kienzler,
Zeina Amro
Found in Translation
09 Dec 2015
‘Medicine in context’
An epistemological trajectory
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Hansjörg Dilger,
Bernhard Hadolt
Photo Essays
09 Dec 2015
Ambivalent visibility
Chronic illness and image in young adulthood
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Stefan Reinsch,
Johannes Rascher
Book and Film Reviews
09 Dec 2015
An anthropology of lying
Information in the doctor-patient relationship
Sylvie Fainzang
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Reviewed by Sjaak van der Geest
The Nightstand
04 Nov 2015
Journal standards and their stories
Or, a trip down the rabbit hole
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Kirsten Bell
Conference Reports
28 Oct 2015
6th Medical Anthropology Young Scholars (MAYS) Annual Conference
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Tanja Ahlin,
Annelieke Driessen,
Natashe Lemos Dekker,
Judith Schühle
Photo Essays
21 Oct 2015
Portraying fathers
Reproductive journeys in Malawi
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Fiona R. Parrott,
Misheck J. Nkhata,
Blessings Mwandosya,
Green Kapira,
Aaron Ndovi,
Dorothy Makoka,
Levie Gondwe,
Amelia C. Crampin
Dissertating
07 Oct 2015
What is a 'throat hit'?
Reframing smoking as a sensory practice
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Imogen Bevan
Articles
15 Sep 2015
A mediating capacity
Towards an anthropology of the gut
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Thomas Cousins
Editorial Note
15 Sep 2015
Everyday afflictions in global context
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Eileen Moyer,
Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Articles
15 Sep 2015
‘The opposite of a history’
What substance use in pregnancy can lend to an ethics of accompaniment
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Ashish Premkumar
Articles
15 Sep 2015
Can epidemics be noncommunicable?
Reflections on the spread of 'noncommunicable' diseases
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Jens Seeberg,
Lotte Meinert
Special Pieces
03 Jul 2015
‘The ethnography of everyday life’
Honouring the work of Sjaak van der Geest
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Anita Hardon
Special Pieces
15 Sep 2015
How can it be!?
Ethnography as magical realism and the discovery of the ordinary
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Sjaak van der Geest
Think Pieces
08 Jul 2015
Blurred lines
Warfare and health care
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Omar Dewachi
Photo Essays
15 Sep 2015
Animating anthropology
On doing jamu in Java
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Julie Laplante
Photo Essays
12 May 2015
Other images
Ebola and medical humanitarianism in Monrovia
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Denielle Elliott
The Nightstand
15 Sep 2015
Animals incorporated
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Natalie Porter
Book and Film Reviews
22 Jul 2015
Moral laboratories
Family peril and the struggle for a good life
Cheryl Mattingly
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Reviewed by Katharine Dow