Tag: In the Journals

This special issue of Critical Public Health is part two of a series on “Public Health Activism in changing times: relocating collective agency.” As editors Catherine Campbell and…

Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine  Exploring engagement with digital screens for collecting patient feedback in clinical waiting rooms:…

Science, Technology, & Human Values Participation in Citizen Science: Insights from the CONECT-e Case Study Petra Benyei, Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana, Laura Aceituno-Mata, Laur…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

BioSocieties Sportswomen as ‘biocultural creatures’: understanding embodied health experiences across sporting culturesHolly Thorpe, Marianne Clark & Julie Brice Over the past decade, a cri…

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…

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…

Some interesting themes include scientific uncertainty and methodological experimentation. Enjoy! Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Social Studies of Health, Illness, and Medicine From …

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.…

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…

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&#…

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…

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…

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,…