Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
The science and politics of anthropological reframing — Eileen MoyerThis think piece asks readers to consider how the science of anthropology has contributed to (re)categorization and imaginaries of gender, class, and the state in the context of public…
Categorization, speculation, and granting access to global health technologies in Indian private clinics — Andrew McDowellTriage is a process of categorizing potential health and guiding care. It is based on the idea that all bodies are equal while pot…
Thinking with ‘BME’ categories in UK mental health care — Natassia F. BrenmanIn this think piece, I discuss a composite category – Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) – that has emerged and expanded to incorporate race, ethnicity, and now also immigration …
The elephants in our ethnographic rooms — Katharina Schramm, Claire Beaudevin
Making up MSM in the global response to HIV and AIDS — Richard Parker
An ethnographic genealogy of sexual alterity and the emergence of global health in Postcolonial Namibia — Robert LorwayDrawing upon long-term ethnographic research in Namibia, I examine the label ‘MSM’ through a materialist interpretation of affect, vi…
Becoming a global health category — Paul Boyce, Fabian CataldoThis article explores the creation of ‘MSM’ as global health category over the course of the HIV and AIDS epidemic, and across country contexts from India to southern and eastern Africa. We …
Reflections on paperwork and project time in performance-based aid economies — Cal (Crystal) BirukThe MSM category has traveled far and wide from its invention in US public health worlds in the late-1990s, migrating as well into anthropological scholar…
Circulations, becomings, and doings in global health — Elsa Fan, Matthew Thomann, Robert Lorway
Exploring ‘green care’ in low light — John Tredinnick-RoweThis photo essay discusses some of the methodological issues for medical anthropology in the environmental human health sector, particularly, how season and latitude shape the types of anthropol…
— Wais Aria, Josephine de Freitas, Maggie Francis, Andrew MacnabMother and child mortality rates in Afghan internally displaced person (IDP) camps are high. Most women have unplanned pregnancies; many are child brides. Contraception can lower maternal…
— Ian LichtensteinDeveloped countries that enact laboratory standards and universal health policies have the luxury of numerous resources and technological advances to ensure an efficient diagnosis. In rural and urban Ghana, resource availability fluc…
An object-centered ethnography for global health — Abigail H. NeelyIn this article, I call for an object-centered ethnography to illuminate the ontological multiplicity that marks the worlds of health and healing that people inhabit. Focusing on a spor…
New subtypes, causes, and care — Lauren Carruth, Sarah Chard, Heather A. Howard, Lenore Manderson, Emily Mendenhall, Emily Vasquez, Emily Yates-DoerrInterest in disaggregating diabetes into numerous subtypes is growing as patients and providers recogni…
— Eugene T. RichardsonThe continued inordinate demise from communicable pathogens in the global South is not the result of an intractable problem thwarting our best efforts to prevent and cure disease; we have the means. Rather, as an accomplice to co…
On children as diagnosticians of their own well-being — Franziska FayIn this think piece, I argue that making children diagnosticians of their own well-being can contribute to a broader understanding of child protection that goes beyond singular issues…
Algorithms as blueprints for global health in an era of antimicrobial resistance — Justin Dixon, Clare ChandlerRising concerns about antimicrobial resistance have sparked a renewed push to rationalise and ration the use of medicines. This article explo…
— Anne Lia CremersScholars of medical pluralism are interested in how healers position themselves and their healing practices within a therapeutic landscape, and how patients navigate an array of therapeutic traditions. Based on fieldwork in Lambaréné…
Health disparities and unrecognized interventions in Mississippi — Kate M. Centellas, Emma Willoughby, John J. GreenThis article seeks to understand how and why certain locations are excluded from or seen as foreclosed as places of innovation and knowl…
Anthropological engagements with classifying, boundary making, and epistemological closure — Eileen Moyer, Vinh-Kim Nguyen
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Seeking closure in clinical spaces — Amishi Panwar
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