In the Journals, June 2021, Part 2 by Jung Eun Kwon
BioSocieties How environments get to the skin: biosensory ethnography as a method for investigating the relation between psychosis and the city (Open Access) Marc Winz & Ola S…
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In the Journals, June 2021, Part 1 by Hayley Ip
Medical Humanities Hostile environments? Down’s syndrome and genetic screening in contemporary culture (open access) Lucy Burke This essay explores the complex entanglement of new reproducti…
In the Journals, May 2021 by Arbel Griner
This month’s highlight – just going open source on Global Public Heath: COVID19 and the political geography of racialization in the US (open access) Ryan Whitacre, Adeola Oni-O…
In the Journals, April, Part 2 by Livia Garofalo
Here’s the second part of the round-up for April. Enjoy! Social Science & Medicine Help me quit smoking but don’t make me sick! The controversial effects of electronic…
Special Issues: “Public Health Activism in changing times: relocating collective agency. Part 1” and “The COVID Horizon” by Emmanuelle Roth
We would like to highlight the release of two special issues this month. First, Critical Public Health’s second issue of the year is dedicated to “Public health activism…
In the Journals, April 2021, Part 1 by Emmanuelle Roth
Current Anthropology Of Plots and Men: The Heuristics of Conspiracy TheoriesDidier Fassin In a time when conspiracy theories seem to be flourishing, generally receiving dismissive reactio…
In the Journals, March 2021, Part 2 by Shoshana Deutsh
Part 2 of “In the Journals” for March 2021 includes a special issue in New Genetics & Society, “Organizing Precision Oncology” and a special forum in Science as…
Special Issue: “Embodied Belonging” by Shoshana Deutsh
This special issue of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, edited by Dominik Mattes and Claudia Lang, proposes the notion of “embodied belonging” which engages with the “entanglements of the…
In The Journals, March 2021, Part 1 by Gabrielle Hanley-Mott
BioSocieties Sportswomen as ‘biocultural creatures’: understanding embodied health experiences across sporting culturesHolly Thorpe, Marianne Clark & Julie Brice Over the past decade, a cri…
In the Journals – Militarization
Officers wearing a traditional late 1960s uniform (left) and a new demilitarized uniform featuring a blazer (right), Riverside County Sheriff, 1969 by Stuart Schrader via Journal of Urban…
In the Journals, February 2021 by Anna Zogas
Here are some new articles published in February 2021. These are in addition to the special issue of Critical Public Health, “Beyond Biological Citizenship,” already highlighted for us…
In the Journals – Incarceration, Rehabilitation, and Recidivism
Josh Shapiro: Fair Commutation Not Mass Incarceration by joepiette2 via creativecommons Welcome back to In the Journals! This ongoing series aims to bridge conversations that are often siloed…
Special Issue: “Beyond Biological Citizenship” by Emmanuelle Roth
Critical Public Health’s first issue of the year is a special issue titled “Beyond Biological Citizenship,” edited by Marsha Rosengarten, Todd Sekuler, Beate Binder, Agata Dziuban and Peter-Paul…
In the Journals, January 2021, Part 2 by Raha Peyravi
Some interesting themes include scientific uncertainty and methodological experimentation. Enjoy! Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Social Studies of Health, Illness, and Medicine From …
In the Journals, January 2021, Part 1 by Jung Eun Kwon
Social Science & Medicine Why public health framing matters: An experimental study of the effects of COVID-19 framing on prejudice and xenophobia in the United States Lindsay Y.…
In the Journals – Policing Migration
A Macedonian police officer raises his baton toward migrants by Freedom House via creativecommons Welcome back to In the Journals! This ongoing series aims to bridge conversations that…
In the Journals, December 2020, Pt. 2 by Eliza Williamson
Medical Anthropology Quarterly This month’s edition of MAQ examines the Covid-19 pandemic and the role of medical anthropology in making sense of and responding to it. Medical Anthropolog…
Other Psychotherapies: Special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry by Eliza Williamson
This special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry explores the under-examined roots of Western psychotherapy, complicating the idea that it is, in the words of the issue organizers, “exclusively&#…
In the Journals, December 2020, Part 1 by Emmanuelle Roth
American Anthropologist Fitness Fanatics: Exercise as Answer to Pending Zombie Apocalypse in Contemporary AmericaKatie Rose Hejtmanek Physical fitness has a long history in the United Sta…
In the Journals, November 2020, Part 1 by Anna Zogas
Here’s the first part of November’s round-up of new journal articles that may be of interest. Enjoy! Science, Technology and Human Values Borderlands of Life: IVF Embryos and…
Global Mental Health: a special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry by Eliza Williamson
This special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry addresses the growing field of Global Mental Health. As the organizers state in their introduction to the issue, “Over the past decade,…
Indigenous Mental Health: a special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry (OA) by Eliza Williamson
This open-access special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry examines mental health among Indigenous populations, with an emphasis on research. As the organizers state in their introduction, the articl…
Loneliness: a special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry by Eliza Williamson
The October 2020 issue of Transcultural Psychiatry addresses the concept of loneliness anthropologically. As the special issue editors state in their introduction: “In recent years, loneliness has…
In the Journals – October 2020, Pt. 2 by Eliza Williamson
Social Studies of Science Who’s afraid of Ebola? Epidemic fires and locative fears in the Information Age (OA) Wesley Shrum, John Aggrey, Andre Campos, Janaina Pamplona da Costa,…