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Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:59:55 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5499603&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01192.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5499603 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5499603 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5499602&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01191.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5499602 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5499602 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5499601&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01190.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5499601 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5499601 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5499600&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01189.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5499600 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5499600 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5499599&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01188.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5499599 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5499599 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5499598&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01187.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5499598 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5499598 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5499597&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01186.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5499597 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5499597 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5499596&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01185.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5499596 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5499596 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5499595&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01184.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5499595 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5499595 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5499594&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01183.x In this article, I examine the clinical practices engaged in by U.S. homebirth midwives and their clients from the beginning of pregnancy through to the immediate postpartum period, deconstructing them for their symbolic and ritual content. Using data collected from open‐ended, semistructured interviews and intensive participant‐observation, I describe the roles ritual plays in the construction, performance, and maintenance of birth at home as a transgressive rite of passage. As midwives ritually elaborate approaches to care to capitalize on their semiotic power to transmit a set of counterhegemonic values to participants, they are attempting, quite self‐consciously, to peel away the fictions of medicalized birthing care. Their goal: to expose strong and capable women who “grow” ... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5499594 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5499594 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5499593&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01182.x This article describes how local responses to global health initiatives on infant feeding for HIV‐positive mothers reflect and transform sociocultural values in Tamil Nadu, India. Drawing from ethnographic research conducted from 2002 to 2008, the article compares guidelines for counseling HIV‐positive mothers established by UNICEF and WHO with decision‐making processes and perceptions of HIV‐positive mothers. In addition to the financial considerations, three factors are identified as impinging on this decision: (1) a strong sociocultural value in favor of breastfeeding linked to historical traditions and contemporary state and international development discourses, (2) constructions of class identity, (3) the influence of a rights‐based discourse in HIV/AIDS advocacy. This wide ... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5499593 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5499593 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5499592&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01181.x This study explores such situated processes as they produce and perpetuate embodied inequality at childbirth in the Kilombero Valley of South–Central Tanzania. Ethnographic narratives illustrate how these processes differentially affect the kind of care women seek and receive. Also described are women's complex yet pragmatic responses to potential exclusion in the attempt to secure a safe and otherwise positive outcome. In a culturally constructed world of childbirth, face‐to‐face claims on entitlement to biomedical services collide with enactments of discrimination at multiple levels, creating a space of contestation for social and material positioning as well as for physical well‐being. [embodied inequality; childbirth; Tanzania; social exclusion; maternal health] (Source: Medica... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5499592 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5499592 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5499591&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01180.x This article examines an explanation circulating within a U.S. multidisciplinary pediatric pain clinic that links the neurobiology of functional pain disorders to desirable personal attributes such as smartness and creativity. Drawing on ethnographic observations and the analysis of video‐recorded clinical interactions and focusing on two cases, I introduce the term personhood diagnostics to explore how the explanatory framework worked not only to pinpoint a pathophysiological mechanism for pain to legitimize it as “real” but also to cast patients as virtuous persons. In doing so, it laid the groundwork for an ethic of clinical care that privileged the patient's responsibility for treatment. Within this narrative logic, diagnostic explanations reveal not only causal pathways but also... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5499591 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5499591 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5499590&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01179.x Vaccination anxieties grew into a public health issue during the 2008 failed measles and rubella immunization campaign in Ukraine. Here I explore how health care providers bend official immunization policies as they navigate media scares about vaccines, parents’ anxieties, public health officials’ insistence on the need for vaccination, and their own sense of expertise and authority. New hierarchies are currently being renegotiated, and I follow health care providers as they attempt to parcel out their new position in the Ukrainian society and beyond. Public health control is reframed in a postsocialist context as a condition of acceptance into the European community as a sanitary democracy, and a contestation point between citizens and state. I untangle how relationships between citiz... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5499590 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5499590 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5499589&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01178.x This article draws on data collected through interviews with working‐class women seeking reproductive healthcare at clinics in Rabat, Morocco, and with medical providers to challenge the link between Islamic ideology and reproductive practices and the correlation among Islam, poverty, and fertility. Morocco, a predominantly Muslim country, has experienced a dramatic decrease in fertility between the 1970s and today. I argue that patients and providers give new meanings to modern reproductive practices and produce new discourses of reproduction and motherhood that converge popular understandings of Islam with economic conditions of the Moroccan working class. [Islam; family planning; Morocco; maternal health; economics] (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5499589 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5499589 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5189423&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01172.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5189423 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5189423 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5189422&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01171.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5189422 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5189422 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5189421&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01170.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5189421 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5189421 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5189420&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01168.x This article employs the rite of passage concept to analyze why and how heroin use and a subsequent HIV/AIDS epidemic have taken hold among minority Nuosu (Yi) young men in Southwest China. It juxtaposes structural inequalities and sociocultural particularities in social suffering among Nuosu youths as they attempt to create meaningful lives in China's market reform era. Since the 1980s, young Nuosu have ventured out to Han‐dominant cities in search of fun and opportunities. This movement has become a new foray into manhood and inadvertently set up their encounter with heroin and the subsequent introduction of HIV into their hometowns. The article is based on my 20‐month ethnographic fieldwork in Limu, a mountainous Nuosu community in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Provinc... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5189420 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5189420 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5189419&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01167.x This article draws on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Berlin from 2006 to 2007. Although Turkish Berliners seem burdened by diabetes, informal diabetes care, for example through a self‐help group, is nonetheless collectively negotiated. Increasing incidence and awareness of diabetes in Berlin's Turkish population and their growing political organization and economic entrepreneurship, against the backdrop of experiences of marginality, gives rise to biosociality unanticipated in previous accounts. Addressing the limitations of previous uses of biosociality, this ethnography suggests that social interaction and belonging that formed around altered biologies, here diabetes, are complex and fragmented.[biosociality, diabetes, migrant communities, Turkish Berliners] (Source: Medical An... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5189419 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5189419 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5189418&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01165.x In this article, I seek to show how states of insecurity provoked by ongoing social, economic, and political ruptures in Haiti can disorder individual subjectivity and generate the flight of individuals seeking asylum within and across borders. Nongovernmental actors working in Haiti and with Haitians in the diaspora frequently managed the long‐term psychosocial effects of insecurity. Their interventions can range from repressive to compassionate and influence the formation of identity and the embodied experiences of trauma for vulnerable Haitians. The case of a young Haitian refugee who was repatriated to Haiti from the United States in the 1990s demonstrates how insecurity is both an existential state reflecting the disordering of embodied experience, as well as a collective sociopolit... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5189418 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5189418 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5189417&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01164.x Of the estimated 214 million people who have migrated from poorer to richer countries in search of a better life, between 20 and 30 million have migrated on an unauthorized, or “illegal,” basis. All have health needs, or will in the future, yet most are denied health care available to citizens and authorized residents. To many, unauthorized im/migrants’ exclusion intuitively “makes sense.” As scholars of health, social justice, and human rights, we find this logic deeply flawed and are committed to advancing a constructive program of engaged critique. In this commentary, we call on medical anthropologists to claim an active role in reframing scholarly and public debate about this pressing global health issue. We outline four key theoretical issues and five action steps that will ... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5189417 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5189417 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5189415&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01163.x As the notion of a “right to health” gains influence, it is increasingly deployed in ways that are diverse, contextually variable, and at times logically inconsistent. Drawing on extended fieldwork at an Israeli human rights organization that advocates for “illegal” migrants and other vulnerable groups, this article contends that medical anthropologists cannot simply rally behind this right. Instead, we must take it as an object of ethnographic analysis and explore how it is invoked, debated, and resisted in specific contexts. Critical ethnographies of right to health discourse and practice can enlighten us, and help us enlighten scholars in other fields, to the complexity, messiness, and “mushiness” (Sen 2009) of this right, especially in the context of advocacy on unauthorize... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5189415 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5189415 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4889919&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01162.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4889919 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4889919 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4889918&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01161.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4889918 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4889918 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4889917&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01160.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4889917 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4889917 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4889916&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01159.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4889916 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4889916 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4889915&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01158.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4889915 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4889915 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4889914&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01157.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4889914 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4889914 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4889913&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01156.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4889913 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4889913 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4889912&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01155.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4889912 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4889912 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4889911&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01153.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4889911 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4889911 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4889910&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01152.x This article draws on theoretical perspectives of stratified reproduction and the politics of time to examine the controversy in which Babies advocate reopening the Katrina‐damaged New Orleans Charity Hospital, and administrators and planners support a new state‐of‐the‐art biosciences district, GNOBED. Babies evoke the present, ethical urgency (kairos) of responding to sickness and disability; GNOBED implies prolonging or saving future lives through biotechnologies under development in accelerated time (chronos). As preservationists and residents threatened with displacement join “re‐open Charity” proponents, planners symbolically engage in prolepsis, rhetorically precluding opposing arguments with flash forward of supposedly “done deals.” At stake is nothing less than so... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4889910 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4889910 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4889909&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01151.x When frozen embryos are publically debated in the United States, they are most often positioned as having two possible future trajectories: (1) as individual humans and (2) as contributors to stem cell research. Long‐term embryo accumulation threatens both of these futures. An accumulated embryo is stuck in a clinic, held back from having an individual future or from contributing to science. There are other kinds of futures, though. For some patients in the United States and Ecuador, where I conducted ethnographic research, future reckoning involves a vision of responsibility toward embryos embedded within a specific family. For these patients, frozen embryo donation to another family or to science constitutes abandonment. The future at stake is not that of an individual embryo's life, b... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4889909 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4889909 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4889908&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01150.x This article explores how medicine materializes and problematizes time through a discussion of ethicality—in this case, the form of governance in which scientific evidence, Medicare policy and clinical knowledge and practice organize first, what becomes “thinkable” as the best medicine, and second, how that kind of understanding shapes a telos of living. Using liver disease and liver transplantation in the United States as my example, I explore the influence of Medicare coverage decisions on treatments, clinical standards, and ethical necessity. Reflexive longevity—a relentless future‐thinking about life itself—is one feature of this ethicality. (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4889908 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4889908 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4889907&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01149.x The experience of futility among frontline clinicians in community psychiatry is produced by the temporal structuring of their work. All health care providers share the disposition to intervene in the course of disease. Specific notions about the course of severe mental illness are woven into the mission of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) as well as the treatment plan, a key paperwork tool used to stage daily activities. The treatment plan demands a narrative of progress that ACT workers often find impossible to supply. The gap between the ideal of progress and the realities of practice produce distinctive kinds of demoralization. Drawing from an ethnography of a single ACT team in the United States, this article explores how clinicians encounter, articulate, and attempt to resolve suc... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4889907 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4889907 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4889906&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01148.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4889906 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4889906 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4889905&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01136.x Researchers have long held that fatalism (the belief in a lack of personal power or control over destiny or fate) constitutes a major barrier to participation in positive health behaviors and, subsequently, adversely affects health outcomes. In this article, we present two in‐depth, ethnographic studies of rural women's health decisions surrounding cancer treatments to illustrate the complexity and contestability of the long‐established fatalism construct. Narrative analyses suggest that for these women, numerous and complex factors—including inadequate access to health services, a legacy of self‐reliance, insufficient privacy, combined with a culturally acceptable idiom of fatalism—foster the use of, but not necessarily a rigid conviction in, the notion of fatalism. (Source: Med... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4889905 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4889905 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4889904&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2011.01154.x With the massive Gulf oil spill of 2010, there has been intensified concern about the impacts of industrial contamination on physical environments, human health, and social well‐being. Based on ethnographic research in a primarily African American town in an area of Southern Louisiana colloquially known as the Chemical Corridor because of the large number of local chemical manufacturing plants, this article engages arguments made by Auyero and Swistun concerning the uncertainties and confusions that emerge when official or empowered pronouncements about the health impacts of living near waste‐generating factories conflict with the everyday experience of perceived health‐related contamination in an impoverished community. The article seeks to address gaps in our understanding of how c... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4889904 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4889904 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4558101&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01147.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4558101 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4558101 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4558100&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01146.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4558100 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4558100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4558099&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01145.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4558099 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4558099 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4558098&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01144.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4558098 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4558098 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4558097&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01143.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4558097 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4558097 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4558096&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01142.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4558096 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4558096 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4558095&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01141.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4558095 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4558095 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4558094&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01140.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4558094 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4558094 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4558093&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01139.x In the wake of the Millennium Development Goals, the focus on vulnerability and access to care has increasingly gained ground in the malaria social science literature. However, little emphasis has been given to the cumulative processes of vulnerability. In this article, we draw on ethnographic data, in particular on case studies, gathered in southeastern Tanzania in the 1990s and reexamine them in the context of vulnerability. We analyze the underpinnings of the cumulative dimension of vulnerability at three levels: (1) structural, that is, elements that determine access to material and social resources; (2) agent driven, that is, the consequences of coping strategies that enhance vulnerability; and (3) conjunctural, that is, periods characterized by the confluence of adverse circumstances... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4558093 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4558093 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4558092&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01138.x The Korwa, an indigenous community of Central India, were displaced from their forest abode four decades ago because of the state's forest policy. The resettled Korwa do not consider the new space their home and summarize their journey of displacement from hill forest to lowland villages in terms of deprivation of healthy life. The Korwa complain of fever, diffuse aches, fatigue, and frail bodies forming a part of their everyday lives thereby signaling the loss of experiential health attributed to alienation from the forest. During an intensive ethnographic fieldwork in Chhatisgarh, the Korwa informants were found to be drawing a sharp contrast between the “health‐generating” attributes of forest life and the “health‐threatening” miseries of current wage labor economy. Using li... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4558092 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4558092 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4558091&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01137.x In this article, I argue that although cervical cancer is an often stigmatized condition in Brazil, women with cervical cancer in Recife, Brazil, did not simply endure the stigma, they also perpetuated it. I draw on narrative theory and 18 months of ethnographic research in Recife to argue that rather than resisting the stigma associated with their disease, women in Recife used stigma to construct illness narratives that affirmed that they were still held to the same norms and values as the nonill. In turn, those narratives, and the healing narratives constructed along with them, provided women with hope for a future free from cervical cancer and free from the “imperfections” associated with that disease. Thus, women with cervical cancer used stigmatizing narratives both as links back ... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4558091 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4558091 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4558090&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01135.x Maya mobile medical providers in highland Guatemala and the goods and services that they offer from “soapboxes” on street corners, local markets, and on buses exemplify an important yet underinvestigated domain of localized health care, one that I refer to as the “other” public health. This medical and linguistic examination of traveling medical salespeople calls for a reconsideration (on a global scale) of what has come to be understood as “public health,” arguing that “othered,” local forms of public health that are often overlooked by anthropologists as “nontraditional” and delegitimized by bio‐medicine as nonscientific merit serious consideration and investigation. This ethnography of marginalized forms of public health offers global insights into emerging heterod... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4558090 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4558090 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4558089&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01134.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4558089 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4558089 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4558088&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01133.x The capacity for a complex inner life—encompassing inner speech, imaginative reverie, and unarticulated moods—is an essential feature of living with illness and a principal means through which people interpret, understand, and manage their condition. Nevertheless, anthropology lacks a generally accepted theory or methodological framework for understanding how interiority relates to people's public actions and expressions. Moreover, as conventional social–scientific methods are often too static to understand the fluidity of perception among people living with illness or bodily instability, I argue we need to develop new, practical approaches to knowing. By placing the problem of interiority directly into the field and turning it into an ethnographic, practice‐based question to be ad... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4558088 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4558088 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4558087&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01123.x This article examines the production and reproduction of silence around infertility in Ireland. Based on narratives collected during 18 months of fieldwork, this article locates the contradictory role of silence in both the private experiences of individuals faced with a difficulty conceiving and in institutions constituted as mechanisms of public support. For many people who experience infertility, silence is rooted in the social stigma associated with reproductive failure or sexual inadequacy. Silence protects privacy while at the same time foreclosing both challenges to assumptions that fertility is the norm and any counterdiscourse to the heteronormative, profamily society in Ireland. I show how the reproduction of silence about infertility is a legacy of Ireland's history, reproductiv... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4558087 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4558087 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4262819&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01132.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4262819 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4262819 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4262818&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01131.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4262818 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4262818 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4262817&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01130.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4262817 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4262817 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4262816&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01129.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4262816 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4262816 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4262815&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01128.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4262815 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4262815 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4262814&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01127.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4262814 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4262814 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4262813&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01126.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4262813 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4262813 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4262812&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01125.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4262812 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4262812 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4262811&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01122.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4262811 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4262811 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4262810&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01121.x Growing evidence suggests that economic inequality in a community harms the health of a person. Using panel data from a small‐scale, preindustrial rural society, we test whether individual wealth rank and village wealth inequality affects self‐reported poor health in a foraging–farming native Amazonian society. A person's wealth rank was negatively but weakly associated with self‐reported morbidity. Each step up/year in the village wealth hierarchy reduced total self‐reported days ill by 0.4 percent. The Gini coefficient of village wealth inequality bore a positive association with self‐reported poor health that was large in size, but not statistically significant. We found small village wealth inequality, and evidence that individual economic rank did not change. The modest ef... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4262810 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4262810 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4262809&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01120.x This article examines how North Carolina tobacco farmers think about the moral ambiguities of tobacco business. Drawing on ethnographic research with tobacco farmers and archival research on the tobacco industry, I specify the core psychological defense mechanisms that tobacco companies have crafted for people associated with the industry. I also document local social, cultural, and economic factors in rural North Carolina that underpin ongoing rural dependence on tobacco despite the negativity that surrounds tobacco and structural adjustments. This article contributes to our knowledge about tobacco farmers and tobacco farming communities, which is important for tobacco‐control strategies. I reflect on ethical and economic paradoxes related to the rise of corporate social responsibility ... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4262809 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4262809 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4262808&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01119.x Discussion considers debates over the extent to which “discursive consciousness” in interview settings illuminates health‐relevant practices in everyday life contexts. (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4262808 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4262808 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4262807&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01118.x This article explores the institutional reasoning and scientific calculations behind the state's fish consumption advice, with special attention paid to the consequences for Alaska Natives. I argue that a discourse of “Alaskan exceptionalism” is utilized by the health department to justify their assessment of risk. Although this exceptionalist discourse is intended to accommodate the unique lifestyles of Alaskan citizens, it may actually serve to undermine the very lifeways and traditions that it presumes to preserve. This article contributes insights into the ways that states can influence the social and material reproduction of communities through the deployment of “cultural difference” during the risk‐assessment process. (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4262807 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4262807 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4262806&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01117.x Human embryonic stem cells are elusive, recalcitrant entities that resist characterization and standardization. Without agreements about what the cells are and how best to systematize cell culture and testing, data cannot be extracted meaningfully, the nascent field will be slow to stabilize, and significantly, there may be safety risks for patients. I discuss efforts to characterize cells definitively and standardize practices across uniquely derived lines, labs, and researchers. I argue that such efforts are made more complicated by layered identities imposed on them by classification conventions, interactions with researchers and laboratory environments, and inheritances from genetic ancestry. The need to understand and possibly capitalize on such distinct, cumulative identities is in t... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4262806 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4262806 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3906200&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01116.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3906200 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:10:23 +0100 3906200 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3906199&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01115.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3906199 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:10:23 +0100 3906199 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3906198&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01114.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3906198 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:10:22 +0100 3906198 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3906197&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01113.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3906197 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:10:22 +0100 3906197 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3906196&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01112.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3906196 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:10:22 +0100 3906196 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3906195&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01111.x Findings from a study designed to discover how local understanding of malaria among Yao in Malawi relate to pregnancy risk definitions reveal that malaria in pregnancy is not perceived as a major risk. Using extended ethnographic field research and multiple methods, we argue a shift from narrow single‐disease approaches to malaria during pregnancy is required and document women's concerns about exposure to multiple vulnerabilities during pregnancy, including witchcraft, extramarital affairs, and multiple dangerous illnesses. Four dimensions are implicated in Yao perceptions of risk: perceived adverse consequences in pregnancy; ease of treatment and cure; transmission and agency to control; and type of risk (social–medical). We discuss implications and consider malaria program features ... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3906195 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:10:21 +0100 3906195 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3906194&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01110.x This article explores the local perceptions and practices surrounding pregnancy loss in Cameroon—a topic that has long been neglected in international reproductive health debates. Based on extended periods of anthropological fieldwork in an urban and a rural setting in the East province of the country, it shows the inherent ambiguities that underlie pregnancies and their perceived dangers. By situating meanings of pregnancy loss within the complex dynamics of marriage and kinship, pregnant bodies are argued to be social bodies—the actions and interpretations of which shift along with social situations. This approach not only forms an alternative to the current focus on the body politic in global discourses on fertility risks but also shows how conventional assumptions such as the rigid... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3906194 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:10:19 +0100 3906194 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3906193&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01109.x The number of people on antiretroviral treatment in Mozambique has increased by over 1,500 percent since it first became free and publicly available in 2004. The rising count of “lives saved” seems to portray a success story of high‐tech treatment being provided in one of the poorest contexts in the world, as people with AIDS experience dramatic recoveries and live longer. The “scale‐up” has had significant social effects, however, as it unfolds in a region with a complicated history and persistent problems related to poverty. Hunger is the principal complaint of people on antiretroviral treatment. The inability of current interventions to adequately address this issue leads to intense competition among people living with HIV/AIDS for the scarce resources available, undermining... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3906193 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:10:19 +0100 3906193 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3906192&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01108.x This study examines the social context of workplace violence and risk avoidance in the context of legal regulations meant to reduce harms associated with the industry. Ethnographic research, including 18 months of extended field observations and interviews with 190 female sex workers, is used to illustrate how sex workers in Tijuana, Mexico, experience and manage workplace violence. Multiple subthemes emerge from this analysis, including deciding where to work, working with a third party, avoiding theft, and dealing with police. These findings support the idea that the risk of violence is part of a larger “hierarchy of risk” that can result in a “trade‐off” of harms. (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3906192 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:10:19 +0100 3906192 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3906191&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01107.x In a Russian Orthodox Church drug rehabilitation program in St. Petersburg, drug addiction was often described as a disease of frozen feelings. This image suggests that rehabilitation is a process of thawing emotional worlds and, thus, allows the emotions to flow once again. In this article I argue that “frozen feelings” is better understood as the unsocial emotional worlds many drug users experience, and that rehabilitation in this church‐run program particularly focuses on the cultivation of an emotional world that supports sociality. This is done, I argue, by means of ethically training rehabilitants to learn how to control and manage their emotional worlds, and in so doing, rehabilitants become new moral persons better able to live in the social world. (Source: Medical Anthropolo... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3906191 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:10:18 +0100 3906191 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3906190&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01106.x This article explores the practice of false patient out‐referral by medical students in Iranian teaching hospital emergency departments. Drawing on participant‐observations and interviews during eight months in six hospitals in Tehran, we investigate how discourse is appropriated to construct and legitimate out‐referrals through four general strategies of sympathy, mystification, intimidation, and procrastination. Based on a critical approach to false out‐referral discourse, we revisit the medical and educational functioning of teaching hospitals in Iran: Focusing on medical students involved in false out‐referrals, their discursive reproduction of deception is examined along with their legitimate challenges to institutional structures. Moreover, focusing on the institution of ho... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3906190 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:10:18 +0100 3906190 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3906189&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01105.x I describe the refashioning of a sense of self and identity of a junior officer in the U.S. Army who was injured in Iraq. Ethnographic data for this article were collected between July 2006 and January 2008. The setting for this article is the U.S. Armed Forces Amputee Patient Care Program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Two models of rehabilitation are contrasted in the rehabilitation program. The first focuses on the refashioning of identity through a sports model of rehabilitation emphasizing physical functioning. The second approaches rehabilitation by emphasizing individual interests and the concern of a person who has a future life to develop. I conclude by arguing that understanding the process of rehabilitation from traumatic injury would benefit from a perspective that melds m... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3906189 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:10:17 +0100 3906189 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3839900&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01103.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3839900 Mon, 31 May 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3839900 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3839899&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01096.x When medical practitioners act as expert witnesses for the plaintiff in contested illness lawsuits, they can be stigmatized by their professional community. Drawing on ethnographic research surrounding the condition multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS) in Australia, this article focuses on: how plaintiff experts specialize; their rationale for deviance from the professional norm; and structural constraints to medical advocacy. By diagnosing and treating the condition as organic, these experts oppose the accepted disease paradigm of the medical community and therefore face professional isolation and peer pressure. They rationalize their continued advocacy within a moral discourse, which includes a professional aspiration toward altruism, an ethical commitment to “truth,” and the explic... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3839899 Mon, 31 May 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3839899 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3839898&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01094.x Researchers studying infertility from the perspective of anthropology and other the social sciences seldom examine the assumptions embedded in the biomedical definition of infertility. Implicit in the biomedical definition is the assumption that people can be divided straightforwardly into those who are trying to conceive and those who are not trying to conceive. If being infertile implies “intent to conceive,” we must recognize that there are various degrees of intent and that the line between the fertile and the infertile is not as sharp as is usually imagined. Drawing on structured interview data collected from a random sample of Midwestern U.S. women and from qualitative interviews, we demonstrate that that there is a wide range of intent among those classified as infertile accordi... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3839898 Mon, 31 May 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3839898 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3544716&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01094.x Researchers studying infertility from the perspective of anthropology and other the social sciences seldom examine the assumptions embedded in the biomedical definition of infertility. Implicit in the biomedical definition is the assumption that people can be divided straightforwardly into those who are trying to conceive and those who are not trying to conceive. If being infertile implies "intent to conceive," we must recognize that there are various degrees of intent and that the line between the fertile and the infertile is not as sharp as is usually imagined. Drawing on structured interview data collected from a random sample of Midwestern U.S. women and from qualitative interviews, we demonstrate that that there is a wide range of intent among those classified as infertile according t... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3544716 Sat, 08 May 2010 14:40:14 +0100 3544716 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3544725&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01103.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3544725 Thu, 06 May 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3544725 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3544724&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01102.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3544724 Thu, 06 May 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3544724 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3544723&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01101.x The editors of MAQ are pleased to present reflections from several emerging scholars on this historic convocation of the Society for Medical Anthropology, held September 24[ndash]27, 2009, at Yale University. We hope these serve to amplify and refract the preceding account of these meetings by Marcia Inhorn, whose description of the scope, scholarly locations, and organizational supports for the first-ever conference was, perforce, an insider's top-down view. The following thoughts are provided by students from Monash University Melbourne, Australia, and from Wayne State University, Michigan, who took part. Although there are worthy insights from the many students at the meetings, we hope these give a taste; publication deadlines limited our ability to include others planned. These scholar... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3544723 Thu, 06 May 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3544723 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3544722&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01100.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3544722 Thu, 06 May 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3544722 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3544721&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01099.x I explore surrogate mothers' narrative construction of pregnancy loss on surrogacy support websites. Communicating via the Internet, women construct the public online world of surrogacy. Drawing on anthropological and sociological literature I investigate the connections between conceptualizations of loss and understandings of technological practices and the consequences of these understandings for assisted reproduction. Surrogate mothers define loss broadly, ranging from failure to conceive to miscarriage and stillbirth; loss means the failure to give a baby to the intended parents. Assisted reproductive technologies contribute to loss by raising expectations of success, by attempting to maximize results through the transfer of multiple fertilized ova, and by early monitoring and testing.... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3544721 Thu, 06 May 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3544721 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3544720&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01098.x The disproportionate prevalence of Type II diabetes mellitus among the poor suggests that, in addition to lifestyle factors, social suffering may be embodied in diabetes. In this article, we examine the role of social distress in narratives collected from 26 Mexican Americans seeking diabetes care at a public hospital in Chicago. By linking social suffering with diabetes causality, we argue that our participants use diabetes much like an "idiom of distress," leveraging somatic symptoms to disclose psychological distress. We argue that diabetes figures both as an expression and a product of social suffering in these narratives. We propose that increasingly prevalent chronic diseases, like diabetes, which are closely associated with social disparities in health, may function as idioms for ps... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3544720 Thu, 06 May 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3544720 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3544719&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01097.x This article examines the way that the ECC of Mexican American farmworker children in the United States sets them up for lasting dental problems and social stigma as young adults. We examine the role of dietary and environmental factors in contributing to what we call "stigmatized biologies," and that of market-based dental public health insurance systems in cementing their enduring effects. We adapt Margaret Lock's term, local biology, to illustrate the way that biology differs not only because of culture, diet, and environment but also because of disparities in insurance coverage. By showing the long-term effects of ECC and disparate dental treatment on farmworker adults, we show how the interaction of immigrant caregiving practices and underinsurance can having lasting social effects. A... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3544719 Thu, 06 May 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3544719 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3544718&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01096.x When medical practitioners act as expert witnesses for the plaintiff in contested illness lawsuits, they can be stigmatized by their professional community. Drawing on ethnographic research surrounding the condition multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS) in Australia, this article focuses on: how plaintiff experts specialize; their rationale for deviance from the professional norm; and structural constraints to medical advocacy. By diagnosing and treating the condition as organic, these experts oppose the accepted disease paradigm of the medical community and therefore face professional isolation and peer pressure. They rationalize their continued advocacy within a moral discourse, which includes a professional aspiration toward altruism, an ethical commitment to "truth," and the explicit e... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3544718 Thu, 06 May 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3544718 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3544717&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01095.x This article explores differences in the social context in which crack sales and use and HIV risk take place in seven low-income communities in San Salvador, and structural factors that may influence these differences. The organization of drug selling varied among the communities on a number of dimensions including: whether drug sales were open or closed systems; the type of drug-selling site; and the participation of drug users in drug-distribution roles. Drug-use sites also varied according to whether crack was used in private, semiprivate, or public spaces, and whether individuals used drugs alone or with other drug users. Three patterns of drug use and selling were identified based on the dimensions outlined above. Structural factors that influenced these patterns included the geograph... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3544717 Thu, 06 May 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3544717 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3372801&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01093.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3372801 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3372801 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3372800&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01092.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3372800 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3372800 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3372799&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01091.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3372799 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3372799 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3372798&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01090.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3372798 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3372798 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3372797&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01089.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3372797 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3372797 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3372796&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01088.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3372796 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3372796 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3372795&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01087.x It is often argued that Western medical responses to illness take illness out of the intimate social contexts within which illness becomes meaningful for people and that, as a result, Western medicine can often constitute an ineffective or, at worst, a disempowering response to illness. While not wishing to challenge such arguments, we seek in this article to present material that might serve as a useful caveat to them. Drawn from interviews conducted as part of an Australian study exploring cross-cultural understandings and experiences of mental illness, we present the accounts of three Vietnamese Australian women. In these accounts, the diagnoses of mental illness that these women had received from their Australian doctors were not presented as being meaningless or disempowering. Rather,... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3372795 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3372795 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3372794&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01086.x Antibiotic resistance is a global public health threat exacerbated by medically unwarranted or improper antibiotic use. Pharmacy counters at the U.S.[ndash]Mexico border provide an example of where lay decisions to use antibiotics in ways considered "risky" may be initiated and negotiated. We test how cultural and public health knowledge of antibiotics is distributed among pharmacy staff, local Mexican clients, and U.S. medical tourists in the bordertown of Nogales using a cultural consensus tool. We find that shared cultural models across these groups include public health statements; however, other shared statements are likely to reinforce antibiotic sales at pharmacy counters by those on both sides of the purchase as economic, rather than therapeutic, encounters. From a public health pe... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3372794 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3372794 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3372793&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01085.x Although a significant body of scholarship on trauma has emerged in medical anthropology, there has been little examination of how gendered expectations shape the aftermath of extreme human experience, forms of recovery, and subjectivity. Here, I show how domestic and other forms of violence have shaped Luz's suffering in the dictatorial (1973[ndash]90) and officially democratic (1990[ndash]present) eras in Chile. I then elucidate how Luz's engagement with Safe Space, an NGO connected to UN violence against women frameworks, and other globally connected women's groups, have allowed her to generate transformative ties with other women. These relationships provide support for Luz's self-defined project of transforming herself and society, largely in relationship to gendered expectations, so ... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3372793 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3372793 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3372792&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01084.x The important diversity of indigenous medical systems around the world suggests that gender issues, well understood for Western science, may differ in significant ways for non-Western science practices and are an important component in understanding how social dimensions of women's health care are being transformed by global biomedicine. Based on ethnographic research conducted with formally trained women Ayurvedic doctors in Nepal, I identify important features of medical knowledge and practice beneficial to women patients, and I discuss these features as potentially transformed by modernizing health care development. The article explores the indirect link between Ayurveda's feminization and its marginalization, in relation to modern biomedicine, which may evolve to become more direct and... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3372792 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3372792 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3372791&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01083.x Closely linked to the increase in psychotropic pill consumption, forgetting and remembering emerged from devastated social scenarios as a new local idiom among poor youth in the late 1990s and the new millennium. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out during the years of the deepest economic crisis in Argentina (2001[ndash]03), I argue that psychotropic pill consumption is associated with not only deteriorating economic conditions but also changes in the quality and price of cocaine, and in the scarcity and subsequent change of status of medications during the economic breakdown. Taking into account developments in the field of memory studies, I examine the relationship among political economy, social memory work, and changing drug-use practices. Regarding memory as a social practic... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3372791 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3372791 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3372790&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2010.01082.x There has been a meteoric rise over the past two decades in the medical research and media coverage of the so-called global childhood obesity epidemic. Recently, in response to this phenomenon, there has been a spate of books and articles in the fields of critical sociology and cultural studies that have argued that this "epidemic" is socially constructed, what Natalie Boero (2007) dubs a "postmodern epidemic." As an anthropologist who has studied child nutrition and obesity in relation to poverty and the school environment, I am concerned about both the lack of reflexivity among medical researchers as well as critical scholars' treatment of the problem as entirely socially constructed. In this article I present both sides of this debate and then discuss how we can attempt to navigate a mi... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3372790 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3372790 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3025371&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01068.x Drawing on ethnographic data collected over 13 months of fieldwork in family doctor clinics in Havana from 2004 to 2005, I examine the shifting moral and material economies of Cuban socialist medical practice. In both official ideology and in daily practice, the moral economy of ideal socialist medicine is based on an ethos of reciprocal social exchange[mdash]that is, the gift[mdash]that informs not only doctors' relationships with the Cuban state and with individual patients but also the state's policies of international medical service to developing nations. The social and economic upheavals after the fall of t Soviet Union, however, have compelled both the state and individual doctors to operate in a new local and global economy. The gift remains the central metaphor of Cuban medical pr... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3025371 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:04:44 +0100 3025371 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3025384&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01081.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3025384 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3025384 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3025383&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01080.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3025383 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3025383 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3025382&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01079.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3025382 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3025382 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3025381&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01078.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3025381 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3025381 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3025380&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01077.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3025380 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3025380 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3025379&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01076.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3025379 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3025379 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3025378&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01075.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3025378 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3025378 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3025377&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01074.x In periurban Costa Rica, undocumented Nicaraguan migrant women are regularly denied medical services from the state health system historically renowned for universal access. Yet Costa Ricans portray migrant women as demanding and disproportionately at fault for health system declines. Medical citizenship is under constant negotiation when undocumented migrants attempt to access state-provided services within this south-to-south migrant circuit. In this article, I draw on 13 months of field research and 138 in-depth interviews with multiple stakeholders to explore the negotiations over the meanings and experiences of medical citizenship. The case study underscores the importance of medical citizenship for a growing number of south-to-south migrants, and theoretically, the gendered dimension... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3025377 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3025377 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3025376&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01073.x The world-wide emergence of categories for diagnosing mental health problems in children and youth such as conduct disorder is often attributed to the globalization of a highly biomedical form of psychiatry. In Brazil, a small group of therapists are resisting biomedicalization by keeping psychodynamic traditions alive and aiming to transform psychotherapy into a resource for politicized youth empowerment. Nevertheless, clinical practices demonstrate an increased use of biomedical diagnoses and therapeutic routines. On the basis of fieldwork with therapists and teachers, and a nine-year-long ethnography of young people, this article explores the localized effects of these potentially contradictory developments. Results show that the growth of biomedical practices alongside politicized ther... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3025376 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3025376 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3025375&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01072.x This study is one of the first to examine the links connecting water insecurity, gender, and emotional distress. The article presents quantitative and qualitative analyses of interview data collected from randomly selected pairs of male and female household heads (n =48) living under the same household-level conditions of water insecurity. The results provide partial confirmation of past findings that women are more likely than men to be burdened with everyday water responsibilities. However, there were no significant differences between men's and women's experiences in household water emergencies (i.e., water shortages and last-ditch attempts to buy water) and reports on some measures of emotional distress (i.e., worry, annoyance, and anger with family members). The results suggest that i... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3025375 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3025375 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3025374&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01071.x Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic research on HIV prevention programs in Poland, I explore the consequences of the shift from models of HIV prevention that emphasize "risk groups" and AIDS blame, to models that focus on "risky behaviors" and universal risk. The centrality of choice making and individual risk management in these models suggests objective risk assessment free from moralizing arguments. The Polish national prevention strategy shifted to focus on choice making, address all risk groups, and include concrete prevention strategies. This shift created a backlash that resulted in the reassertion of moral arguments about risk and risk groups that positioned those most vulnerable to HIV outside the purview of prevention efforts. AIDS organizations working with marginalized, "moral... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3025374 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3025374 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3025373&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01070.x In this study, based on interviews with 15 recently arrived Yemeni women, I show different "idioms of distress" that connect the women's emotional states to experiences of physical space and the body. I also raise methodological and epistemological questions about conducting anthropological work in communities whose members experience profound isolation. (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3025373 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3025373 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3025372&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01069.x In this article, I examine the use of an ad hoc medical category[mdash]the "social case"[mdash]by psychiatrists in contemporary Romania. "Social cases" receive intensive psychiatric care, usually through long institutional stays, remaining hospitalized because psychiatrists perceive them as too poor and, thus, "unfit" to survive without the welfare assistance provided by institutionalization. The "social case" label emerges at the intersection of (1) plans by the state to deinstitutionalize public mental health care, (2) the rise of a new class of downwardly mobile and increasingly poor formerly working-class people, and (3) the desire of psychiatrists to protect their patients in the face of neoliberal assaults on Romanian welfare state support for publicly funded mental health care. Disa... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3025372 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3025372 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2666297&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01056.x This article examines a local version of medical public discourse about fetal images produced through ultrasonography in Israel, where this technology has gained huge popularity. Nevertheless, I argue, ultrasound in Israel has not become engaged in the discursive production of "fetal subjects" central to the Euro-American life politics. Fetal images in Israel have become entangled in a "politics of threatened life": where "life" stands typically for the pregnant woman and "threat" for the fetus, while the prospect of a reproductive misfortune is the fabric through which pregnancies, regardless of their medical categorization as "low risk" or "high risk," are navigated and negotiated by doctors and women. The same processes of separation generated by ultrasonography forge different imagined... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2666297 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:57:31 +0100 2666297 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2666308&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01067.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2666308 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2666308 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2666307&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01062_3.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2666307 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2666307 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2666306&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01062_2.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2666306 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2666306 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2666305&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01062_1.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2666305 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2666305 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2666304&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01061.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2666304 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2666304 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2666303&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01066.x Following reduction in mortality rates of term and preterm babies hospitalized in NICUs, neonataology refocused its concerns on the survivors' elevated risks of long-term health and developmental problems, thus turning the "intact survival" of hospitalized newborns into an equivalently desired moral and professional goal as their "survival." Based on ethnographic observations in an Israeli NICU ("pagia"), I suggest that the new moral practice has bearings on the construction of neonatal subjectivities. According to Jewish and Israeli laws, personhood is conferred on at birth. However, my findings indicate that in practice the question of "quality of life" often appears to be a stronger consideration than legal personhood when withdrawal of intensive therapies is discussed in the nursery. C... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2666303 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2666303 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2666302&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01065.x This article addresses two concepts that are quite widespread among Latin American cultures: susto or "'fright sickness," and the "masters of the animal species" philosophy, whereby individual animal spirits are believed to be "owned" by species-specific spiritual masters. This is the first article to integrate both these aspects, drawing from ethnographic data from the Trinitario people in Bolivia collected through participant-observation and semistructured ethnobotanical interviews on medicinal plants. Although Trinitarios have a long history of agriculture, their worldview is still partly one of animistic hunter and fisherman societies. This worldview is reflected in Trinitario susto etiology and treatment. Susto is locally believed to originate through soul theft by a variety of master... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2666302 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2666302 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2666301&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01060.x In 2005, New Mexico implemented a unique reform in managed behavioral health services that seeks to ensure delivery of consumer-driven, recovery-oriented care to low-income individuals. Distinguishing features of the reform are the Local Collaboratives (LCs), regionally based community organizations designed by state government to represent behavioral health concerns of New Mexico's diverse cultural populations. We examine community response to the LCs, focusing on two broad sets of themes derived from 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork. The first set[mdash]structure and function[mdash]encompasses several issues: predominance of provider versus consumer voice; insufficient resources to support internal operations; imposition of state administrative demands; and perceived lack of state res... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2666301 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2666301 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2666300&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01059.x This study indicates that conceptualizations of the political economy of treatment seeking need to more fully acknowledge the dynamic nature of the microlevel political economic context of treatment seeking, including the domino social, economic, and health effects of structurally problematic health care systems. (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2666300 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2666300 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2666299&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01058.x As states weaken and public health care deteriorates throughout the developing world, new spaces are opening for civil society groups to fill the gaps of declining health systems. In Mexico, popular health groups have responded to health care decline by building community clinics, establishing health promoter training programs, and opening natural medicine pharmacies. Lower- and working-class women are the primary participants in these groups that use a self-help approach to find practical solutions to local health care problems. However, little is known about participants' circumstances, motivations, or the ideals they embrace. Drawing from women's narratives, I explore the "micropolitics" of women's participation in local health groups. I examine their efforts to reclaim control over the... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2666299 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2666299 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2666298&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01057.x In this article, I contrast conceptualizations of authoritative knowledge in pregnancy and birth between U.S. midwives and their Mexican immigrant clients at a religious birthing center in south Texas. Although the two groups share certain orientations to pregnancy management, essential differences in prenatal care and birth epistemologies underscore distinct social and economic positions. I use narrative data to document and explain these differences, which throw into relief the hierarchies of identity and need that structure immigrant women's reproductive experiences. Unveiling the different epistemologies can also help to explain sometimes radically divergent ideas that have impacted the very survivability of the birthing center. By focusing on Mexican immigrant women's reproductive dec... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2666298 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2666298 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2498590&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01047.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2498590 Sun, 31 May 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2498590 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2498598&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01054_2.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2498598 Sun, 10 May 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2498598 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2498597&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01054_1.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2498597 Sun, 10 May 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2498597 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2498596&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01053.x The fall of state socialism in Poland in 1989 constituted a critical moment that redefined policies regulating reproductive health and access to care. As the Polish state adopted the discourse and agenda of the Catholic Church in its health policies, reproduction and sexuality became sites of moral governance through the implementation of the Conscience Clause law, which permits healthcare providers to deny medical services citing conscience-based objections. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores the effects of the implementation of the conscience clause and argues that the adoption of this law for individual use paved the way for restrictions on reproductive healthcare on a systemic scale. The special status afforded to the church is highly significant for access to healt... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2498596 Sun, 10 May 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2498596 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2498595&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01052.x Growing public health attention has been placed on the HIV vulnerability of males who sell sex to males in India. However, there is little research that outlines the trajectories through which males come to be involved in practicing sex work in India. Locating "male sex work" within a vibrant social, political, and erotic landscape, this article explores the intertwining of "sexual subjectivity" and "sex work." The authors refer to 70 sexual life histories generated from research conducted in Mysore to unsettle dominant public health notions that regard male sex work as rooted solely in poverty or as a decontexualized "behavioral risk factor." Such perspectives are countered by demonstrating how male sex work in Mysore encompasses a complex interplay between self-realization, sexual desire... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2498595 Sun, 10 May 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2498595 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2498594&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01051.x Rather than viewing therapeutic interventions as either compliance or resistance to the social order, I analyze them as mimesis of cultural ideal selves. In particular, I examine the new mediations of the social order constituted in mimetic therapeutic practices and their entailed creativity and ambivalence. Drawing on participant observation in a Jewish ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) rehabilitation site I explore how, given the ruptures brought about in mental disorders, caretakers offer their clients new ways to inhabit the normal self through its imitation. Specifically, caregivers construct replications of dominant selves by selectively deploying modern and neotraditional discourses of the self in diverse social contexts and in multiple registries like body, emotions, social relations, and wa... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2498594 Sun, 10 May 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2498594 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2498593&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01050.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2498593 Sun, 10 May 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2498593 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2498592&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01049.x In this case study, I use ethnographic data to explore how community engagement and science are deployed at the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, with the goal of formulating an understanding of the personalized meanings of science[ndash]community relations for key environmental public health experts. In focus is the cultural discourse circulating in the agency that exposes the real concerns, beliefs, and attitudes of these scientists and experts vis-à-vis their community engagement experiences. Finally, I propose that critical attention to the place of power relations, knowledge politics, and environmental justice are fundamental to studies of toxic contamination where commitments to community engagement and quality science are joined to form a positive research goal... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2498592 Sun, 10 May 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2498592 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2498591&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1548-1387.2009.01048.x (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2498591 Sun, 10 May 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2498591 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2161064&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D19189719%26dopt%3DAbstract Vital queries in medical anthropology: still goaded by the "person". Med Anthropol Q. 2008 Dec;22(4):311-2 Authors: Luborsky M, Sankar A PMID: 19189719 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2161064 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 2161064 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2161063&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D19189720%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Taylor JS The onset of dementia raises troubling questions. Does the person with dementia still recognize you? If someone cannot recognize you, can they still care about you? This essay takes such questions as the entry point for a broader inquiry into recognition, its linkages to care, and how claims to social and political "recognition" are linked to, or premised on, the demonstrated capacity to "recognize" people and things. In the words and actions of her severely impaired mother, the author finds guidance toward a better, more compassionate question to ask about dementia: how can we best strive to "keep the cares together"? PMID: 19189720 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2161063 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 2161063 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2161062&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D19189721%26dopt%3DAbstract Politics of care: commentary on Janelle S. Taylor, "On recognition, caring, and dementia". Med Anthropol Q. 2008 Dec;22(4):336-9 Authors: Cohen L PMID: 19189721 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2161062 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 2161062 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2161061&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D19189722%26dopt%3DAbstract This article examines pregnant undocumented women's experiences with the health care system and relationship to the state in Germany. It also provides a discussion of how a restrictive immigration climate, particular models of citizenship, and liberal family laws have resulted in unique practices surrounding paternity claims. It is based on long-term ethnographic data to highlight contradictions and ambiguities in the policy environment and utilizes the notion of stratified reproduction to bring new evidence regarding mothers' deportability and practices of paternity. PMID: 19189722 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2161061 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 2161061 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2161060&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D19189723%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Hansen HP, Tjørnhøj-Thomsen T A fundamental assumption behind cancer rehabilitation in many Western societies is that cancer survivors can return to normal life by learning to deal with the consequences of their illness and their treatment. This assumption is supported by increasing political attention to cancer rehabilitation and a growth in residential cancer-rehabilitation initiatives in Denmark (Danish Cancer Society 1999; Government of Denmark 2003). On the basis of their ethnographic fieldwork in residential-cancer rehabilitation courses, the authors examine the new rehabilitation discourse. They argue that this discourse has challenged the dominant illness narrative, "sick-helped-cured," producing a new narrative, "sick-helped-as if cured," and that this new n... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2161060 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 2161060 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2161059&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D19189724%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Jenkins JH, Carpenter-Song EA In this article, we identify an array of creative strategies used by persons diagnosed with schizophrenia-related illness to deflect and resist social stigma, and address the lived experience of deploying these strategies in the intersubjective context of everyday life. The data are derived from anthropological interviews and ethnographic observations of ninety persons who received treatment at community mental health facilities in an urban North American locale. Nearly all were keenly aware of stigma that permeated their lives. Their predicament is contradictory: on the one hand, they have recovered relative to previous states of psychosis; on the other hand, their subjectivity is saturated by intense awareness of social stigma that seems intract... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2161059 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 2161059 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2161058&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D19189725%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Pfeiffer J, Nichter M, PMID: 19189725 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2161058 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 2161058 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2161057&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D19189726%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Inhorn MC PMID: 19189726 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly) Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2161057 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 2161057 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1970147&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D19014013%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Wood K, Lambert H In this ethnographic article, we explore the character of local discourse about AIDS in an affected township community in South Africa, describing the "indirection" that characterized communication about suspected cases of AIDS. Through a case study of one affected family, the article first explores the diverse ways in which people came to "know" that specific cases of illness were AIDS related, and how this "knowledge" was communicated. We consider why communication was indirect and coded, arguing that this reflected nota "denial" of its presence in this community but, rather, a complex group of overlapping concerns far from unique to AIDS: first, a normative injunction on naming potentially fatal conditions; second, an interest in pursuing different therape... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1970147 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1970147 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1970146&cid=s_37718_46_f&fid=37718&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D19014014%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Park M A tension in medical anthropology, as an interdisciplinary field, exists between those polar territories of the logic--and therefore grammars--of a positivist-scientific stance of biomedicine and a literary-philosophical one used to represent experience. Taking up literary-philosophical and existential perspectives from anthropology proper, I draw on an ethnographic study of a sensory-integration-based clinic to propose that imaginative practices are one arena where such tension can be worked out. Enacted narratives, as a method, reveal how imaginative practices foreground the ways in which desire and hope are integral to healing. Kenneth Burke's (1969 [1945]) theory of dramatism, particularly his scene : act ratio, provides an analytic lens to examine the imaginary pla... Medical Anthropology Quarterly journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1970146 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1970146