Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert: La vida no vale nada. Raquel Rubio‐Goldsmith, Celestino Fernández, Jessie K. Finch, and Aracelia Masterson‐Algar, eds., Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016, 302 pp.
(Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly)
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - September 6, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: John Doering ‐White Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
Compound Solutions: Pharmaceutical Alternatives for Global Health. Susan Craddock, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017, 166 pp.
(Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly)
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - September 6, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Svea Closser Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
The Attachment Imperative: Parental Experiences of Relation ‐making in a Danish Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Medical Anthropology Quarterly,Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 120-137, March 2018. (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly)
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - September 4, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly,Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 120-137, March 2018. (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly)
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - September 4, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Pregnant Metaphors and Surrogate Meanings: Bringing the Ethnography of Pregnancy and Surrogacy into Conversation in Israel and Beyond
This article explores the way that surrogacy and normal pregnancy share cultural assumptions about pregnancy. Through a juxtaposition of our ethnographic studies of two groups of Jewish–Israeli women—women who have undergone “normal,” low‐risk pregnancies and women who have given birth as gestational surrogates—we argue that surrogacy and pregnancy emerge as potent metaphors for one another. Both pregnant women and surrogates divided their bodies into two separate realms: fetus and maternal pregnant body. Both trivialized the effect of gestational influence on fetal health, making the fetus seem detached from g...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - September 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tsipy Ivry, Elly Teman Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Living the Social Determinants of Health: Assemblages in a Remote Aboriginal Community
This article provides a critical discussion of the social determinants of health framework and compares it with theoretical perspectives, such as that offered by assemblage theory, offering an alternative view of the complex interplay between human relationships and the structures around us. We offer an ethnographic perspective, discussing the lived experiences of the social determinants in an Indigenous community in a remote part of northern Australia. [Indigenous health, social determinants of health, assemblages, ethnography, medical anthropology]
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Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - September 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Richard D. Chenhall, Kate Senior Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
“Corporate Mortality Files and Late Industrial Necropolitics”
This article critically examines the corporate production, archival politics, and socio‐legal dimensions of Corporate Mortality Files (CMFs), the largest corporate archive developed by International Business Machine's Corporation (IBM) to systematically document industrial exposures and occupational health outcomes for electronics workers. I first provide a history of IBM's CMF project, which amounts to a comprehensive mortality record for IBM employees over the past 40 years. Next, I explore a recent case in Endicott, New York, birthplace of IBM, where the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOS...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - September 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Peter C. Little Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Cytomegalovirus: A Hospitalization Diary. Herv é Guibert. Translated by Clara Orban, with introduction by David Caron and afterword by Todd Meyers. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016, 85 pp.
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView. (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly)
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - August 22, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
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Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - August 22, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Cytomegalovirus: A Hospitalization Diary. Herv é Guibert. Translated by Clara Orban, with introduction by David Caron and afterword by Todd Meyers. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016, 85 pp.
(Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly)
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - August 22, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Andrew Irving Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
Handle with Care: Rethinking the Rights versus Culture Dichotomy in Cancer Disclosure in India
Medical Anthropology Quarterly,Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 59-84, March 2018. (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly)
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - August 13, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly,Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 59-84, March 2018. (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly)
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - August 13, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
