Benjamin Hegarty – The Anthropology Newspaper

Diffracting Trauma in the Global South between biology and culture / Difractar La Noción de Trauma en el Sur Global entre biología y cultura by Benjamin Hegarty

Trauma is a concept with wide-ranging impact, moving out of limited psychiatric fields into the popular imagination and policy (Fassin 2009). Psychologists now accompany medical doctors in the w…

Post date 16th March 2023
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PrEP on Trial: the Future of HIV in Indonesian Policy Worlds

Platypus

In 2012, the first pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs, billed as a pill a day to prevent HIV, were authorized for use in the United States. Heralded as a…

Post date 23rd August 2022
Post author By Benjamin Hegarty
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A Place Apart by Benjamin Hegarty

Somatosphere

On a crisp autumn day in April in Melbourne, my phone has several missed calls from an Indonesian friend. With a heavy heart, I call back to see…

Post date 15th July 2020
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