Prem Kumar Rajaram: The Moral Economy of Precarity
The authors of The Anthropological Career in Europe (Fotta, Ivancheva and Pernes 2020) have made visible the inequality and hierarchy that has become increasingly normalized in higher education…
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Everyday Infection, Looming Threat: Hospital-Based Infection Control in the United States by Katharina Rynkiewich
Design by okb-buro.com During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals have served a dual role in regards to infection control and management. Hospital emergency rooms and intensive care units…
Ela Drążkiewicz: Blinded by the Light: International Precariat in Academia
I was reluctant to contribute to this blog series. The recently published EASA report (Fotta, Ivancheva and Pernes 2020) draws attention to precarious labour in anthropology. However, in…
Writing Life No. 7: An interview with Omar Dewachi by Lina Pinto-Garcia
Two years ago, I was suggested to take a look at the work of Omar Dewachi, an Iraqi scholar who, like me, has taken a deep interest in…
How to Make Medical Anthropology Useful to Healthcare Practitioners, Activists, and Policy-Makers: Lessons Learned by Robbie Davis-Floyd
Introduction: A Brief Summary of My Medical Anthropological Activist Work For three generations of practitioners, activists, and policymakers in the fields of childbirth, obstetrics, midwifery, an…
Spectacular Infrastructure: Madrid’s Pandemic Hospital between Public Spectacle and Speculation by Janina Kehr
Design by okb-buro.com On a fresh autumn day in 2019, under Madrid’s deep-blue sky, I went for a morning coffee with Ernesto, an infectious-disease physician working in one…
Susana Narotzky: A History of Precariousness in Spain
The EASA report on The Anthropological Career in Europe (Fotta, Ivancheva and Pernes 2020) is an important initiative that offers quantitative evidence about a situation which all of…
Giacomo Loperfido: On Excellence, Precarity, and The Uses of Public Money
Covid19 is producing a crisis – both sanitary and economic – of global structural proportions, threatening the very existence of society as we know it. All precarious segments…
Writing Life No. 6: An interview with Sally Wyatt by Claudia Egher
Figure 1. Sally’s writing space Sally Wyatt is a science and technology studies (STS) scholar and Professor of Digital Cultures at Maastricht University. She is a prolific academic…
Natalia Buier: What sample, whose voice, which Europe?
The EASA membership survey and the associated ‘precarity’ report (Fotta, Ivancheva and Pernes 2020) are an important and timely contribution. Surely these are findings we must build on…
Medical anthropology applied to education in socio-health professions: From the enchantment of technology to the enchantment of the encounter by Viviana L. Toro Matuk
“If you want to understand what a science is, you should look for the first instance not at its theories and its findings, and certainly not at what…
Don Kalb: Anthropological Lives Matter, Except They Don’t
The PrecAnthro Collective within EASA has shown staying power and bite. That is what the EASA precarity survey demonstrates (Fotta, Ivancheva and Pernes 2020). Mariya Ivancheva has turned…
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…
Writing Life No. 5: An interview with Robert Desjarlais by Michelle Charette
Photo by Robert Desjarlais “British poet W.H Auden suggested that true poets are those who like ‘hanging around words listening to what they say.” Desjarlais, 2011, Counterplay: An…
Emergent Anthropology: Reimagining U.S. Medical Anthropology in Theory and Practice by Ellen Rubinstein
The American Anthropological Association website identifies four subfields of anthropology (archaeology, biological, cultural, linguistic) and reserves a separate section for “applied and practicing …
A Hospital Without People in a Timor-Leste Community by Laura Burke
‘If you are bleeding a lot…go to hospital’. Cristiano, a community health volunteer gave a health seminar to 12 community members inside a dark concrete house, in a…
Writing Life No. 4: An interview with Tom Rice by Carla Greubel
Figure 1: One of Tom’s writing space, Exeter, UK “An acoustemologist, that’s probably the best professional description for me” – Tom Rice is a Senior Lecturer at the…
Doing and Seeing: Cultivating a “Fractured Habitus” through Reflexive Clinician Ethnography by William Schlesinger
Introduction The tension between critical theoretical innovation and on-the-ground, practical application has animated intense debate in medical anthropology (Scheper-Hughes 1990). Epistemological…
Writing Life No. 3: An interview with Janelle Taylor by Anna Harris
Figure 1: Janelle’s chair, with writing and knitting projects underway The conversation began on a summer day in a 13th Century chateau, with a moat, on the outskirts…
The Thinness of Care: The Promise of Medical Anthropology in MD/PhD Training by Joshua Franklin
In the mid-twentieth century, recognizing the growing need for innovations born of clinical experience, pathways for training MD-PhD physician-scientists emerged in the hopes that this hybrid trainin…
Medical Anthropology and Practice of Medicine in Health Issues by Awah Kum Tchouaffi
Abstract: It is known through anthropological literature that African countries are distinguished by a category of medicine that many specialists call ethnomedicine or traditional African medicine. F…
Disrupting medical anthropology: Views from Kenya and Cameroon on how to build a more inclusive discipline by Moïse Mvetumbo
Medical anthropologists often strive to disrupt typical public health and medical discourses, in part by questioning the broader applicability of individualized psychological concepts and biomedical …
Window Work: Framing Eldercare in the Age of COVID-19 by Kristina Grünenberg
In this blogpost, we draw from our current fieldwork on the island of Ærø, a place which has branded itself as “the digital island”[1], to explore how care…
Infrastructure, Maintenance, and Waste in a Myanmar Hospital by Nora Wuttke
Design by okb-buro.com Hand sketches shown in with this article are by the author from her fieldwork in Yangon in 2020. All images copyright by Nora Wuttke. The…