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Special Pieces
13 Sep 2016
Remembering Klaas Willem van der Veen (1930–2016)
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Sjaak van der Geest
Editorial Note
13 Sep 2016
On the public and private politics of well-being
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Eileen Moyer,
Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Special Pieces
13 Sep 2016
Introduction
Ethnomedicine and medical anthropology today, in the case of Tibet
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Vincanne Adams
Articles
13 Sep 2016
The recognition of Sowa Rigpa in India
How Tibetan medicine became an Indian medical system
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Stephan Kloos
Articles
13 Sep 2016
Positioning Sowa Rigpa in India
Coalition and antagonism in the quest for recognition
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Calum Blaikie
Articles
13 Sep 2016
Naming and forgetting
Sowa Rigpa and the territory of Asian medical systems
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Sienna R. Craig,
Barbara Gerke
Special Pieces
13 Sep 2016
The work of evidence in critical global health
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Vincanne Adams,
João Biehl
Think Pieces
13 Sep 2016
Theorizing global health
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João Biehl
Think Pieces
13 Sep 2016
Ordinary medicine
The power and confusion of evidence
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Sharon R. Kaufman
Think Pieces
13 Sep 2016
Ecologies of evidence in a mysterious epidemic
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Charles L. Briggs
Think Pieces
13 Sep 2016
addicted.pregnant.poor
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Kelly Ray Knight
Think Pieces
13 Sep 2016
Lower extremities
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Harris Solomon
Think Pieces
13 Sep 2016
After war
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Zoë H. Wool
Think Pieces
13 Sep 2016
What is critical global health?
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Vincanne Adams
Articles
13 Sep 2016
Affect, infrastructure, and vulnerability
Making and breaking Japanese eldercare
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Jason Danely
Articles
13 Sep 2016
‘My friends look just like you’
Research encounters and imaginaries in Vancouver’s urban drug scene
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Danya Fast
Articles
13 Sep 2016
Occupational citizenship
Practice, routine, and bureaucracy among nurses and midwives in rural Burkina Faso
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Lise Rosendal Østergaard
Found in Translation
13 Sep 2016
From superstition to folk medicine
The transition from a religious to a medical concept
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Josep M. Comelles
Found in Translation
13 Sep 2016
Self-determination in dependence
The ambiguity of elder care in the Netherlands
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Klaas Willem van der Veen
Photo Essays
13 Sep 2016
A medicine for every sickness
A visual reflection on the treatment of eye disease in rural Niger
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Kelley Sams
Book and Film Reviews
13 Sep 2016
De machinemens
De machinemetafoor in de geneeskunde en in het denken over ziekte en gezondheid
Nel van den Haak
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Reviewed by Karen Mogendorff
Book and Film Reviews
13 Sep 2016
After war
The weight of life at Walter Reed
Zoë H. Wool
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Reviewed by Anna Zogas
The Nightstand
13 Sep 2016
More journal standards and their stories
A meditation on a nursery rhyme
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Kirsten Bell
Conference Reports
07 Sep 2016
Veterinary anthropology
When medical anthropology meets animal studies
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Frédéric Keck
Book and Film Reviews
15 Aug 2016
Yaya’s story
The quest for well-being in the world
Paul Stoller
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Reviewed by Beth Uzwiak
Conference Reports
26 Jul 2016
Exploring and articulating a critical suicidology
'Suicidology's cultural turn, and beyond'
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C.M. Cassady
Conference Reports
13 Jul 2016
Revisiting the margins
Towards a praxis for critical global health
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Michelle Pentecost
Book and Film Reviews
15 Jun 2016
Loneliness and its opposite
Sex, disability, and the ethics of engagement
Don Kulick and Jens Rydström
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Reviewed by Marieke van Eijk
Dissertating
30 May 2016
Writing grief
Death and bereavement in ethnographic texts
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Jennifer J. Carroll
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