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…
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…
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.…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“Is writing seemly? Does the writer cut a respectable figure? Is it proper to write? Is it done?” – Jacques Derrida, “Plato’s Pharmacy” in Disseminations ~ ~ ~…
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…
This case is a story that a soldier told me. I call her Kelly, and she said it was “the craziest story I was gonna get” from her.…
What follows is a series of conversations conducted after the recent Image as Method symposium, which took place on May 4th and 5th, 2015, at Columbia University’s Heyman…
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…
Biosocial Becomings: Integrating Social and Biological Anthropology Cambridge University Press, 2013, 288 pages. This essay originally appeared in Portuguese in the journal Mana. Translation provide…
In June 2015 The Bellagio Task Force on Epidemics and Xenophobia met to discuss the resurgence of xenophobia across the globe—one most recently prompted by fearful and unsympathetic…
While conducting ethnographic fieldwork on indigenous political organizing in northwest Guatemala in the mid 2000s, I encountered, quite by accident, an apparent epidemic of Bell’s Palsy—an illness in…