Somatosphere readership survey by Eugene Raikhel
Are you a regular reader of Somatosphere who would like to help us make the site even better? Are there certain topics or issues that you’d like to…
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When Research Bleeds into Real Life: Studying Reproductive Ageing while Ageing Reproductively by Carrie Friese
In a book chapter addressing feminist research methods and women’s health and healing, Rayna Rapp (1999) wrote about the complicated ways in which everyday life is embroiled in…
Conference review: MAGic 2015 Anthropology and Global Health: Interrogating Theory, Policy and Practice by Josien de Klerk
“Global Health is like a containership. The multiple actors —international and local NGOs, humanitarian organisations, scientists, activists, politicians — operate the tugboats, attempting to nu…
Summer Roundup: Inhabitable Worlds, Part Two by Deanna Day
Continuing our summer roundups, today we are highlighting a second set of essays from our Inhabitable Worlds series, brought to us by editors Michele Friedner and Emily Cohen.…
What Halloween Masks
October 31st is America’s curious anomaly. On October’s last day, as trees defoliate and nature ebbs towards the deadness of winter, parents mark the day by lifting prohibitions. …
Graphic Medicine Manifesto by Juliet McMullin
In organizing the 6th Annual Conference of Comics and Medicine, I frequently heard the refrain “Comics and medicine? What’s that? How do those two things go together?” Indeed,…
Waiting in the face of bare life by Aaron Ansell
Advocates of a more robust democratic citizenship in Brazil often point bitterly to the frequent practice of cutting ahead of others in line. Such line-cutting, they lament, indicates…
The rise of developmental science: Debates on health and humanity – A Special Issue of Social Science and Medicine by Francis Mckay
Shaping the modern child: Genealogies and ethnographies of developmental science Dominique P. Béhague, Samuel Lézé Introductory article. No abstract. Fertile bodies, immature brains?: A genealogical c…
The Americans with Disabilities Act After 25 Years – A Special Issue of Disability Studies Quarterly by Francis Mckay
Twenty-Five Years After the ADA: Situating Disability in America’s System of Stratification Michelle Maroto, David Pettinicchio Americans with disabilities represent a significant proportion of the po…
In the Journals Oct 2015 – Part 1 by Francis Mckay
Hi all. Here’s the first part of this month’s roundup. Configurations Nano Dreams and Nanoworlds: Fantastic Voyage as a Fantastic Origin Story Emily York Fantastic Voyage, a…
Summer Roundup: Inhabitable Worlds, Part One by Deanna Day
Continuing our summer roundups, today we are highlighting a first set of essays from our Inhabitable Worlds series, brought to us by editors Michele Friedner and Emily Cohen.…
Tu Youyou and the Nobel Prize by Elisabeth Hsu
When I interviewed Professor Tu Youyou in 2005 — in her office at the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the work unit within which she had spent…
Summer Roundup: Bioculturalism by Deanna Day
We continue our set of summer roundups by focusing our attention on a series of interviews conducted by Jeffrey G. Snodgrass. Snodgrass spoke with William Dressler, Emily Mendenhall,…
Somatosphere interview at New Books Network by Eugene Raikhel
A couple of weeks ago, Todd Meyers, Emily Yates-Doerr and I spoke with Monique Dufour of New Books in Medicine about the origins of Somatosphere, our thoughts on…
Making a Case for Reducing Pollution in China, or The Case of the Ugly Sperm by Janelle Lamoreaux
The Chinese film, Under the Dome, tells the story of a former CCTV news anchor’s struggle to understand and deal with smog in the wake of her pregnancy…
Summer Roundup: Forums by Deanna Day
Now that the academic year is in full swing, we thought it would be a great time to do a roundup of the work that you may have…
Books for review by Eugene Raikhel
A new crop of books has arrived and they need to be reviewed! We are now asking reviewers to complete their pieces within four months of receiving a…
Case by case by Jason Danely
“The question for me of whether to get a stomach tube for my mother was whether or not she has lived her natural life completely.[1] Maybe her time has…
Book Forum — Richard Keller’s Fatal Isolation by Todd Meyers
Richard Keller’s Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003 is a careful accounting of the toll the heat wave took on those most vulnerable in…
Book Forum — The Viral Network: A Pathography of the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic by Eugene Raikhel
In this Book Forum, our commentators respond to Theresa MacPhail’s provocative ethnography of influenza research and public health response, The Viral Network: A Pathography of the H1N1…
Film Forum — In the Shadow of Ebola by Marissa Mika
It was only a year ago that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa was highly visible. Images of health workers dressed in hot and heavy hazmat gear, body…
Normalizing Sexually Violated Bodies: Sexual Assault Adjudication, Medical Evidence, and the Legal Case by Sameena Mulla
What constitutes evidence of sexual assault? I am seated in a courtroom as a sexual assault forensic nurse is asked to explain, by a prosecutor, the basic tenets…
“Bioculturalism” — An interview with Greg Downey by Greg Downy
This series aims to get anthropologists and closely-related others talking seriously, and thinking practically, about how to synergize biological and social scientific approaches to human health and w…
Book Forum — Christian McMillen’s “Discovering Tuberculosis” by Todd Meyers
Christian McMillen’s Discovering Tuberculosis is many things, but mostly it is an account of failure. The book is a story of disease control in the twentieth century…