Toxic Disavowal by Chloe Ahmann
Figure 1. “Residents want out of industrial ghetto.” Photo by Lloyd Fox for the Baltimore Sun, 1998. In April 1998, Jeanette succumbed to terminal cancer. She was only…
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Art, the Clinic, and the Political Exercise of Thinking by Eva Marxen
From 2002-2013, the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona (MACBA) brought together professionals from the fields of psychoanalysis, art therapy, and anthropology to provide different services for a va…
Against Forgetting: Telling Stories After Zika by Eliza Williamson
For English click here. Contra o Esquecimento: Contando Histórias após o Zika Dois anos atrás, em um aeroporto, enquanto esperava uma conexão, recebi uma mensagem de WhatsApp de uma…
Web Roundup: Measles, Vaccinations and Epidemics by Whitney Arey
This month has been filled with news stories about the growing problem of measles outbreaks in the U.S. and around the world. In the U.S. this has been…
Book Forum: Daniel Renfrew’s Life Without Lead: Contamination, Crisis, and Hope in Uruguay by Andrés Romero
Introduction Daniel Renfrew’s Life Without Lead: Contamination, Crisis, and Hope in Uruguay (2018) is a masterful undertaking on the anthropology of disaster and its everydayness. An ethnograp…
From women to women: building the state response to the Zika epidemic in Brazil by Isabele Villwock Bachtold
For English, click here. De mulher para mulher: construindo a resposta do estado à epidemia de Zika no Brasil ‘Minha vida era uma antes e outra depois da…
In the Journals – November 2019 by Livia Garofalo
Here’s our November In the Journals. For the posthumanists out there, there is a special issue of Theory, Culture & Society on Transversal Posthumanities that might be of…
Histórias of Zika by Luísa Reis-Castro
For English click here. Era o ano de 1947. Em uma floresta chamada Zika, em Uganda, liderados pelo médico-entomologista escocês Alexander J. Haddow, pesquisadores colocaram macacos-rhesus em p…
Bioethnography and the Birth Cohort: A Method for Making New Kinds of Anthropological Knowledge about Transmission (which is what anthropology has been about all along) by Elizabeth F.S. Roberts
© Elizabeth F. S. Roberts These are pots and dishes. They transmit food and love. They transmit lead. They transmit class. They transmit enduring inequality and new forms…
A Poetics of Dementia by Rosemarie Buikema
One rainy morning in November, I called my mother. “Hi mum, how’re you doing?”“Well, it isn’t much fun to be sitting here in a chicken run all day…
Introduction: Excavating and (re)creating the biosocial; birth cohorts as ethnographic object of inquiry and site of intervention by Sahra Gibbon
Longitudinal birth cohorts are increasingly recognised as important for understanding how biological, social and environmental processes interact over time and contribute to health inequalities. Birt…
PrEP at the After/Party: The ‘Post-AIDS’ Politics of Frank Ocean’s “PrEP+” by Benjamin Weil
Introduction HIV/AIDS prevention efforts have taken many forms, ranging from pop-up stalls at LGBTQ+ Pride parades to circuit parties at popular queer venues. In this essay, we examine…
The ethnographic fact: a discussion of ethics in anthropological fieldwork by Florian Göttke
Note: A working-syllabus can be found below. Please add more recommendations in the comments. The lone-fieldworker model of research may still be the norm for anthropology in the…
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…
Power in the Face of Indian Surrogacy by Emma Abell-Selby
Introduction Power is in the air we breathe, and no matter where we are there are always individuals with more power over others. In “An anthropology of structural…
Staging Seizure: The Chronic Contingency of Epilepsy Diagnosis by Megh Marathe
Epilepsy is a chronic illness and disability characterized by recurrent, unpredictable seizures. Epileptic seizures are transient events during which people lose control over all or parts of body-min…
Syndemics: Considerations for Interdisciplinary Research by Rosalynn Vega
In this short piece, I explore how medical anthropology could be deployed through interdisciplinary collaborations in a way that is both theoretically rich and poised to positively impact…
PrEP at the Margins: Towards a Critically Applied Anthropology of Nordic PrEP Access by Tony Joakim Sandset
In the spirit of this series on a ‘critically applied’ approach to PrEP, this piece shows how thinking with the concept of marginality can contribute to an analysis…
homunculus Revolts: Re-Figuring the Neurological Subject by Zoë Wool
Figuring a Grotesque Norm 1954 Homunculus: Penfield Archives, Osler Library of the History of Medicine This hand drawn illustration rendered in black ink shows two mirror image outlines…
Web Roundup: Lunar Bodies by Blair Bainbridge
The past month has been a big one for the moon. There was a total solar eclipse across Chile and Argentina on July 2, a partial lunar eclipse…
The social life of PrEP in Kenya by Jennifer L. Syvertsen
I have perhaps an unpopular position to declare: Although pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an enormous biomedical breakthrough in the prevention of HIV, it also symbolizes much of what…
(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…
How do you do interdisciplinarity? by Roberta Pala
The AusSTS Interdisciplinary workshop took place at Deakin University, in Melbourne, Australia from the 3rd to the 5th of July 2019. The workshop quite literally started with a…
Internet-Based Access to PrEP in the U.S.: A “Critically Applied” Approach and the Symbolic Effects of a Clinical-Technological Assemblage by Shana Hughes
Introduction “I‘d been trying to get PrEP through my physician at the time, and …I had to print up all these studies and all the prescription information because…