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The Ultrasonic Picture Show and the Politics of Threatened LifeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 categorizati...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - August 4, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Tsipy Ivry Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

ErrataEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - August 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Joanna Z. Mishtal, Joanna Z. Mishtal Tags: Errata Source Type: journals

The Human Drama of Abortion: A Global Search for Consensus by Aníbal FaúndesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - August 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Michele Rivkin-Fish Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Looking Within: A Sociocultural Examination of Fetoscopy by Deborah BlizzardEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - August 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Eugenia Georges Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Visions of Illness: An Endography of Real-Time Medical Imaging by Maud RastakeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - August 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Joseph Dumit Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

President, Society for Medical Anthropology Speaking to the National Health Crisis:Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - August 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Carolyn Sargent Tags: Presidential Address Source Type: journals

The Intensive Medical Care of Sick, Impaired, and Preterm Newborns in Israel and the Production of Vulnerable Neonatal SubjectivitiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - August 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Noga Weiner Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Susto Etiology and Treatment According to Bolivian Trinitario People:Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 fis...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - August 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Evert Thomas, Ina Vandebroek, Patrick Van Damme, Lucio Semo, Zacaria Noza Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Community Participation in New Mexico's Behavioral Health Care ReformEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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: predomin...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - August 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Miria Kano, Cathleen E. Willging, Barbara Rylko-Bauer Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Routes to Government TB Treatment:Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - August 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sarah E. Chard Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Radical Remedies:Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 em...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - August 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Suzanne D. Schneider Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

La Tecnología y Las Monjitas:Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - August 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: K. Jill Fleuriet Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

The Interrogative Imperative:Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - May 31, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Mark R. Luborsky, Andrea P. Sankar Tags: Editors' Introduction Source Type: journals

Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS by Marc EpprechtEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - May 10, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Alexander Rödlach Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

The Too-Good Wife: Alcohol, Codependency, and the Politics of Nurturance in Postwar Japan by Amy Beth BorovoyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - May 10, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Karen Nakamura Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Matters of "Conscience":Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 individ...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - May 10, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Joanna Z. Mishtal Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

On Becoming a Male Sex Worker in Mysore:Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 "beh...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - May 10, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Robert Lorway, Sushena Reza-Paul, Akram Pasha Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

"You Look, Thank God, Quite Good on the Outside":Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - May 10, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Yehuda C. Goodman Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Community Engagement and Science:Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - May 10, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Donald Pollock Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Negotiating Community Engagement and Science in the Federal Environmental Public Health SectorEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 environ...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - May 10, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Peter C. Little Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the "Embodied Subjectivity" (1908–61)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - May 10, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: P. Fusar-Poli, G. Stanghellini Tags: Centennial Recognition Source Type: journals

Vital queries in medical anthropology: still goaded by the "person".Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19189719 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly)
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - December 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Luborsky M, Sankar A Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

On recognition, caring, and dementia.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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"?...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - December 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Taylor JS Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

Politics of care: commentary on Janelle S. Taylor, "On recognition, caring, and dementia".Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19189721 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly)
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - December 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Cohen L Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

Paternity for sale: anxieties over "demographic theft" and undocumented migrant reproduction in Germany.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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: Medic...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - December 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Castañeda H Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

Cancer rehabilitation in Denmark: the growth of a new narrative.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 d...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - December 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Hansen HP, Tjørnhøj-Thomsen T Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

Stigma despite recovery: strategies for living in the aftermath of psychosis.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 previo...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - December 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Jenkins JH, Carpenter-Song EA Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

What can critical medical anthropology contribute to global health? A health systems perspective.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19189725 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly)
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - December 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Pfeiffer J, Nichter M, Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

Medical anthropology against war.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19189726 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly)
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - December 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Inhorn MC Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

Coded talk, scripted omissions: the micropolitics of AIDS talk in an affected community in South Africa.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 f...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - September 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Wood K, Lambert H Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

Making scenes: imaginative practices of a child with autism in a sensory integration-based therapy session.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - September 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Park M Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

Neoliberal reform and health dilemmas: social hierarchy and therapeutic decision making in Senegal.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this article, I trace the links among neoliberalism, regional ecological decline, and the dynamics of therapeutic processes in rural Senegal. By focusing on illness management in a small rural community, the article explores how economic reform is mediated by existing social structures, and how household social organization in turn influences therapeutic decision making. The illness episodes relayed here demonstrate how the acute economic and social crisis facing the Ganjool region becomes written on the bodies of young men, and how the fault lines of gender and generation shape illness experiences. These narratives...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - September 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Foley EE Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

Being anorexic: hunger, subjectivity, and embodied morality.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article explores the embodied process of being anorexic and the moral repertoires within which this process is entangled. The point of departure for this discussion is that, while critical feminist epistemology plays an important role in politicizing anorexia as a symbolic cluster of meanings, it has provided us with limited analytical tools for an in-depth understanding of an anorexic's lived experiences and of the embodied realities involved in being anorexic. At the same time, autobiographical accounts of anorexia provide insightful emic perspectives on being anorexic but are not engaged with symbolic and theoretic...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - September 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Gooldin S Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

The coproduction of moral discourse in U.S. community psychiatry.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article shows how everyday moral talk is coproduced by both the immediate contexts of clinical work and the categories of formal bioethics. PMID: 18717363 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly)
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - June 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Brodwin P Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

Cross-cultural perspectives on physician and lay models of the common cold.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We compare physicians and laypeople within and across cultures, focusing on similarities and differences across samples, to determine whether cultural differences or lay-professional differences have a greater effect on explanatory models of the common cold. Data on explanatory models for the common cold were collected from physicians and laypeople in South Texas and Guadalajara, Mexico. Structured interview materials were developed on the basis of open-ended interviews with samples of lay informants at each locale. A structured questionnaire was used to collect information from each sample on causes, symptoms, and tre...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - June 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Baer RD, Weller SC, de Alba García JG, Rocha AL Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

Before your very eyes: illness, agency, and the management of Tourette Syndrome.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this article, I examine the ways that people with Tourette Syndrome (TS) manage the motor and vocal tics characteristic of this neurological disorder. To mitigate the powerful stigmas associated with TS, individuals must either remove tics from public view or strive to recast the way that they are perceived. Drawing on ethnographic research with TS sufferers in Indiana, I elaborate three strategies by which this is done, strategies referred to here as displacement, misattribution, and contextualization. These processes strongly affect both the symptoms themselves and the subjective experience of the illness. They al...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - June 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Buckser A Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

Managing the unmanageable: elderly Russian Jewish émigrés and the biomedical culture of diabetes care.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article argues for a more reflexive understanding of U.S. biomedical culture as a replacement for the current "sound bite" model of cultural diversity. PMID: 18610811 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly)
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - March 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Borovoy A, Hine J Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

Race, ethnicity, and racism in medical anthropology, 1977-2002.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We present a content analysis of Medical Anthropology and Medical Anthropology Quarterly, based on a systematic random sample of empirical research articles (n = 283) published in these journals from 1977 to 2002. We identify both differences and similarities in the use of race, ethnicity, and racism concepts in medical anthropology and neighboring disciplines, and we offer recommendations for ways that medical anthropologists can contribute to the broader debate over racial and ethnic inequalities in health. PMID: 18610812 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly)
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - March 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Gravlee CC, Sweet E Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

The emergence of integrative medicine in Australia: the growing interest of biomedicine and nursing in complementary medicine in a southern developed society.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this article, I examine the process by which some biomedical physicians and nurses in Australia have come to adopt various alternative therapies in their regimens of practice, largely in response to (1) the growing interest on the part of many Australians in what is generally called "complementary medicine", and (2) a recognition that biomedicine is not particularly effective in treating an array of chronic ailments. Some Australian biomedical physicians and nurses have come to embrace "integrative medicine," which purports to blend the best of biomedicine and complementary medicine, and have even created an Austral...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - March 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Baer H Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

Dying under the bird's shadow: narrative representations of degedege and child survival among the Zaramo of Tanzania.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this article, I examine the cultural interpretations of degedege, an indigenous illness commonly recognized by the Zaramo people of coastal Tanzania as life threatening. Drawing on the narratives of three bereaved parents who lost a child to degedege, I analyze the contextual and circumstantial factors involved in these parents' negotiation of the identity of an illness and in their subsequent therapy seeking behavior. I show that even though cultural knowledge and etiological beliefs about degedege may be shared locally, there is significant variation in the therapeutic pathways that parents follow to deal with an ...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - March 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Kamat VR Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

The life and death of a street boy in East Africa: everyday violence in the time of AIDS.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article focuses on the life history of a single street boy in northwestern Tanzania, whom I name Juma. I suggest that Juma's experiences and the life trajectory of himself and of significant individuals around him (particularly his mother) were structured by everyday violence. I describe everyday violence in terms of a conjuncture between macrostructural forces in East Africa (including a history of failed development schemes and the contemporary political economy of neoliberalism) and the lived experience of individuals as they negotiate local, contextual factors (including land-tenure practices, the power dynamics b...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - March 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Lockhart C Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

Healing herbs and dangerous doctors: "fruit fever" and community conflicts with biomedical care in Northeast Thailand.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In Northeast Thailand, khai mak mai (fruit fever) is a local, ethnomedical category of illness identified by community members as untreatable by biomedical health providers. The illness is believed to be incompatible with several substances that may induce death, including fruit as well as two forms of medication associated with biomedical care: injections and intravenous solution. Consequently, fevers suspected of being khai mak mai are treated by herbalists while biomedical health services are avoided and feared. In this article, I examine local perceptions and treatment of khai mak mai. I also explore the context an...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - December 1, 2007 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Pylypa J Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

Critical therapeutics: cultural politics and clinical reality in two eating disorder treatment centers.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Recent studies suggest that eating disorders are increasing in Mexico and that this seems to correspond with Mexico's push to modernization. In this respect, Mexico exemplifies the acculturation hypothesis of eating disorders, namely, that anorexia and bulimia are culture-bound syndromes tied to postindustrial capitalist development and neoliberalist values, and that their appearance elsewhere is indicative of acculturation to those values. Available evidence for this claim, however, is often problematic. On the basis of five years of comparative fieldwork in eating disorder clinics in Mexico City and a small Midwester...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - December 1, 2007 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Lester RJ Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

Languages of labor: negotiating the "real" and the relational in Indo-Fijian women's expressions of physical pain.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Medical personnel in public clinics in Fiji routinely contend that state-funded medical resources are misallocated on patients who complain of, but do not actually experience, physical pain. Frequently, these patients are identified as being Indo-Fijian women (i.e., women of South Asian origin in Fiji). In this article, I examine clinical interactions between medical staff and female Indo-Fijian patients to demonstrate how "real" and 'unreal' pain are distinguished in the clinical setting and to indicate some of the roles clinical encounters play in community processes that ascribe alternative meanings to physical pain...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - December 1, 2007 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Trnka S Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

Medical anthropology at the intersections.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 17937248 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly)
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - September 1, 2007 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Inhorn MC Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

Susceptibility genes and the question of embodied identity.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Drawing on an assumption of the co-construction of the material and the social, late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) is used as an illustrative example to assess claims for an emergent figure of the "individual genetically at risk." Current medical understanding of the genetics of AD is discussed, followed by a summary of media and AD society materials that reveal an absence of gene hype in connection with this disease. Excerpts from interviews with first-degree relatives of patients diagnosed with AD follow. Interviewees hold complex theories of causation. After genetic testing they exhibit few if any subjective change...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - September 1, 2007 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Lock M, Freeman J, Chilibeck G, Beveridge B, Padolsky M Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

"Showing roughness in a beautiful way": talk about love, coercion, and rape in South African youth sexual culture.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article offers an ethnographic exploration of the spectrum of practices relating to sexual coercion and rape among young people in a township in the former Transkei region of South Africa. Contextualizing meanings of sexual coercion within local youth sexual culture, the article considers two emic categories associated with sex that is "forced": ukulala ngekani: "to sleep with by force" or ukunyanzela: "to force," both usually used to describe episodes occurring within sexual partnerships; and ukudlwengula, used to describe rape by a nonpartner or stranger. The article discusses the semantic content of and differences...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - September 1, 2007 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Wood K, Lambert H, Jewkes R Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

A rose by any other name? Rethinking the similarities and differences between male and female genital cutting.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this article, we offer a critical examination of the tendency to segregate discussion of surgical alterations to the male and female genitals into separate compartments--the first known as circumcision, the second as genital mutilation. We argue that this fundamental problem of definition underlies the considerable controversy surrounding these procedures when carried out on minors, and that it hinders objective discussion of the alleged benefits, harms, and risks. We explore the variable effects of male and female genital surgeries, and we propose a scale of damage for male circumcision to complement the World Heal...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - September 1, 2007 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Darby R, Svoboda JS Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

The meaning of the present: hope and foreclosure in narrations about people with severe brain damage.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this article, I consider narratives told within a clinical setting. I argue that personnel in a day center for people with acquired brain damage are constantly involved in narrating about the disabled participants. The negotiation of who the participant is, and foremost will be, is in constant negotiation in regard to issues of hope. I further argue that hope is a meaning-making process and, as such, it has been defined as crucially connected to time. Hope has been said to enable a connection between the present and the future, because action taken in the present could bring about (positive) change in the future. Ho...
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - September 1, 2007 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Antelius E Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals

Alcohol, drug, and tobacco study group takes a stand: the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: an urgent call for U.S. ratification.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: PMID: 17937253 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] (Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly)
Source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly - September 1, 2007 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Med Anthropol Q Source Type: journals