Hormonal Theory: A Rebellious Glossary by Andrea Ford, Roslyn Malcolm, Sonja Erikainen, Lisa Raeder, and Celia Roberts (eds.) (Bloomsbury: 2024) Far beyond fitness tips about “boosting testosteron…
Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare by Nora Kenworthy (MIT Press: 2024) One chilly winter day, I (the author of this review) was standing in line…
Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization by Harry Yi-Jui Wu (MIT Press: 2021) Harry Yi-Jui Wu’s Mad by the…
The 2022 Mpox outbreak in the Global North disrupted the temporality of epidemics amid an uncertain recovery from COVID-19. Immediately associated with men who have sex with men,…
Part of a series discussing Romani Chronicles of Covid-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resilience, edited by Paloma Gay y Blasco and Martin Fotta (Berghahn: New York and Oxford, 2023).…
Part of a series discussing Romani Chronicles of Covid-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resilience, edited by Paloma Gay y Blasco and Martin Fotta (Berghahn: New York and Oxford, 2023).…
Part of a series discussing Romani Chronicles of Covid-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resilience, edited by Paloma Gay y Blasco and Martin Fotta (Berghahn: New York and Oxford, 2023).…
Part of a series discussing Romani Chronicles of Covid-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resilience, edited by Paloma Gay y Blasco and Martin Fotta (Berghahn: New York and Oxford, 2023).…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the April edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. Culture,…
Part of a series discussing Romani Chronicles of Covid-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resilience, edited by Paloma Gay y Blasco and Martin Fotta (Berghahn: New York and Oxford,…
Covid-19 is a pandemic that has to be approached as syndemic. This is what Yasar Abu Ghosh convincingly argues in this deeply disturbing and profoundly illuminating collective volume,…
Anthropological histories of the COVID-19 pandemic exceed the virus and epidemiological trends. Although its catastrophes have escalated globally, they have not unfolded homogeneously. The intensitie…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the June edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. Anthropologie…
A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam’s Age of Anxiety by Allen Tran (University of California Press: 2023) In A Life of Worry, Allen L. Tran…
Introduction Days before his death, Ernest Becker wrote with remarkable clarity on the human dishonesty around death. “The basic human predicament,” Becker submits, is “that we are simultaneously…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the April edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. American…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the March edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. Biosocieties…
For this installment of In the Journals, here is a quick orientation to, and selection from, two French journals that could interest readers of Somatosphere: Terrain: Created…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the February edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. American…
Narrating the Many Autisms: Identity, Agency, Mattering by Anna Stenning (Routledge: 2024) Over the past few decades, narrative has become an increasingly popular medium for autistic people to…
Podcast with Ruth Prince, Professor of Medial Anthropology at the Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, in conversation with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King…
Noemi Tousignant, Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London, in conversation with Shagufta Bhangu, Lecturer in the Department of Global Health…
I. Introduction In 2010 India found itself mired in a medical crisis of diplomatic proportions. The crisis was precipitated by a paper (Kumaraswamy et al 2010) published in…
For Dear Life: Art, Medicine and Disability, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (MCASD), September 19, 2024 – February 2, 2025 Cuts thumb and finger on a table…