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The politics of reproduction among Haredi Jews in EnglandBen Kasstan — Kaveri Qureshi

Early Tibetan medical responses to the emerging coronavirus epidemic: Notes from a field visit to Dharamsala, India — Barbara GerkeThe epidemic of COVID-19 caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been in the headl…

Reflections on suicide from Swakopmund, Namibia — Jack BoultonA recent national survey by the Ministry for Health and Social Services revealed that Namibia’s suicide rate was vastly higher than previously thought. Mirroring global conceptions of mental…

Everyday self-care in a civil servant milieu of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — Andrea Kaiser-GrolimundTo date, most social anthropological studies on aging in African contexts focus on care for poor older people provided by related others. The focus of this…

The bureaucratic experience of organized assisted suicide — Marcos Freire de Andrade NevesThe process of organized assisted suicide (OAS), permitted in Switzerland under specific circumstances, requires applicants to produce and circulate an array of m…

The movement of autism back and forth through time — Ben BelekKinship relations constitute the grooves through which autism travels temporally. On the one hand, the biological components of the condition are understood to journey from one generation to…

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…

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…

— 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…

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…

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…

— Jong-min JeongThis article critically engages with the predominant understandings of repetitive bodily practices within a dementia context. Rather than interpreting such practices as pathological and abnormal, I instead approach them through an ethn…

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Never quite beyond illness — Laura L. HeinemannOrgan transplantation is often held to epitomize the power and promise of biomedicine. Yet life after transplant does not so clearly mark an ‘after’ to illness, and instead requires close monitoring and tr…

An opportunity to address inequities in genetic medicine? — Emily Hammad MrigRecent advances in genetic research provide anthropologists with an opportunity to reconsider the meaning and importance of interdisciplinary research. This piece suggests tha…

— Narelle Warren, Courtney AddisonThe curative imaginary is a powerful driver of hope and investment in medicine, often displacing attention and resources given to other illness-related fields of practice. Whereas cure implies an end to the sick role …

Social withdrawal in contemporary Japan — Ellen B. Rubinstein, Rae V. SakakibaraHikikomori (‘social withdrawal’) appeared in Japan at the end of the twentieth century, inciting public panic about a generation of Japanese youth who shun social contact a…

Hybridity, difference, and decolonizing health — Carolyn Smith-MorrisBefore professional diagnosis, the determination of whether one is ‘ill’ or ‘well’ rests within the patient. These moments, when sufferers (re)cognize their own bodily and phenomenolo…