A Shifting Hospital and Shifting Dependencies in Jammu and Kashmir by Sugandh Gupta
Design by okb-buro.com Arun Bhaiya[1] –Ramesh, I am giving you these medicines. Count them and tell me how many tablets do you have? Arun Bhaiya throws the seven…
Tag: Clinical ethnography
Katie Kilroy-Marac’s An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic by Nana Osei Quarshie
An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic Katie Kilroy-Marac University of California Press, 2019. 288 pages. Katie Kilroy-Marac …
Crafting a ‘critically-applied’ PrEP collaboration in Memphis by Matthew Thomann
Encountering PrEP I became interested in PrEP as an object of anthropological research on the L train between 1st and 3rd Avenues in Manhattan. It was the summer…
(Dis)continuities in cancer care: An ethnographic approximation to practices of disease stratification by Ignacia Arteaga
Background: Disease stratification practices have long been used as a means to produce and make sense of cancer, distinguishing ‘types’, tumour development stages, and even patients’ sociode…
Web Roundup: Trapped in the Tar Pit by Kathleen Lynch
Earlier this month, Atul Gawande, physician-author and new CEO of the yet-to-be defined health venture formed by JP Morgan, Berkshire Hathaway, and Amazon, published the long-form New Yorker…
Opening up shrinking life-worlds by Maarten van Westen
Lives change dramatically as dementia progresses. Using observations of people suffering from obsessions and compulsions, I will analyse this change along three dimensions. Obsessive-Compulsive Disord…
Sadeq Rahimi’s Meaning, Madness and Political Subjectivity: A Study of Schizophrenia in Turkey by Ayşecan Terzioğlu
Meaning, Madness and Political Subjectivity: A Study of Schizophrenia in Turkey By Sadeq Rahimi Routledge, 2015, 248 pages This book is issued by “The International Society for Psychological…
Un/Inhabitable Worlds: The Curious Case of Down’s Syndrome by Gareth Thomas
In her superb exposition of staring, Garland-Thomson (2009) draws attention to Chris Rush’s artistic piece Swim 2 which depicts a woman with Down’s syndrome in a regal pose…