Old, disabled, successful?

Transfigurations of aging with disabilities in Switzerland — Francesca RickliAging – both the definition and the actual process of aging – has undergone fundamental local and global changes in the past decades. Various advances in technology and medici…

Following ‘Fosfo’

Syntheticphosphoethanolamine and the transfiguration of immunopolitics in Brazil — Márcio VilarThe chemical substance synthetic phosphoethanolamine (fosfoetanolamina sintética) was developed at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil at the beginni…

Rethinking sociality and health through transfiguration

— Dominik Mattes, Bernhard Hadolt, Brigit ObristIn this introductory article to the Special Section, we intend to literally bring sociality to (bodily) life and ask what medical anthropology might gain by using the lens of sociality for a better under…

Sticky models

History as friction in obstetric education — John Nott, Anna HarrisThis paper explores the material histories which influence contemporary medical education. Using two obstetric simulators found in the distinct teaching environments of the University o…

Structural vulnerabilities and healthcare services integration

HIV-positive Mozambican migrants in Johannesburg — Bent SteenbergHome to one fifth of all people living with HIV, South Africa carries the world’s heaviest burden of this disease. While a significant proportion of those infected are immigrants from oth…

CAES Vol. 6, № 3

Think pieces: Substrate lexis of Kildin Sami interpreted through languages belonging to the Western branch of the Ainu-Minoan stock: some notes on the language of Paja ul deˀŋ Alexander Akulov In Kildin Sami there are about 30 words which have no convincing Finno-Ugric/Uralic (or any other) etymologies. 8 of them can be interpreted through languages […]

Book Review

Rice, Stephen K. and Michael D. Maltz, eds. 2018. Doing Ethnography in Criminology: Discovery through Fieldwork. Cham: Springer.