Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. 288 …
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), better known as drones, are on the rise. During the ongoing corona crisis their potential to either monitor …
When we were children my mother always told us there was nothing to fear from thunderstorms. But it was hard not to …
A post-COVID-19 “return to normal” implies a continuation of the very cultural, linguistic, and economic practices that precipitated the pandemic. Scholars of …
While the United States is often celebrated as a global leader in health expertise, it currently leads the world in COVID-19 infections …
Introduction The tension between critical theoretical innovation and on-the-ground, practical application has animated intense debate in medical anthropology (Scheper-Hughes 1990). Epistemological…
MICHELA COZZA On 21 March 2020, during the first COVID-19 pandemic peak in Italy, a group of doctors working at the Papa …
Since COVID-19 has come to haunt the globe, hospitals in all their guises have featured centrally in the pandemic response. As the …
Infographics have become a ubiquitous feature of the contemporary global health landscape, crowding the presentations and exhibition halls of conferences, the pages …
New Intimacies and De-Masking in Medical Anthropology and Global Health. A Reflective Blog CLAIRE SOMERVILLE The concept of fieldwork, and its’ physical …
Die USA kritisieren die WHO scharf: Präsident Trump wirft ihr eine mangelnde Distanz gegenüber China vor. Doch diese Haltung ist nichts Neues. …
Note — this text is an updated version of an article published in French by Analyse Opinion Critique (AOC) on April 3rd, …
Hide Press Release (10 Less Words) Kristina Großmann, Maribeth Erb, Nicole Weydmann, Novia Tirta Rahayu Tijaja As has been widely reported, a …
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Felix Lussem Eine andere Art von „Geisterorten“: Noch immer verschwinden Dörfer im Rheinland für Kohleextraktion. …
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Brandaan Huigen When the first cases of infection started to appear in southern Germany, Jens Spahn, …
For Spanish click here. “So, we have had other mosquito-borne illnesses for a long time, like dengue and chikungunya, and now all …
For English click here. Era o ano de 1947. Em uma floresta chamada Zika, em Uganda, liderados pelo médico-entomologista escocês Alexander J. …
I have perhaps an unpopular position to declare: Although pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an enormous biomedical breakthrough in the prevention of HIV, …
Hide Press Release (8 Less Words) Janina Kehr, Hansjörg Dilger, and Peter van Eeuwijk The health sector is one of the largest …
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Christopher Hohl Several phenomena have contributed to the increased attention paid to albinism in the past …
Medicine in the Meantime: The Work of Care in Mozambique Ramah McKay Duke University Press, 2018, 256 pages The study of …
A recent issue of Medicine Anthropology Theory devoted to the critique of global health partnerships (GHPs) raises a question of great significance to …
Photo: Paul R. Greenough Eva Jansen “The politics of vaccination. A global history” is a multi-faceted study of the connections between vaccination, …
Map of sleeping sickness RDT availability (red dots) in the north-western region of Uganda hosting refugees from South Sudan. In 2015, the …