The standout themes of this month are: the varying meanings of wellness and well-being, and Covid 19’s effect: on local populations, women and domestic violence, caregivers, and therapy…
Social Studies of Science Cultivated co-production: Sexual health, human rights, and the revision of the ICDSteven Epstein STS scholars frequently have shown how science and sociopolitical arra…
Sociocultural contexts of mental illness experience among Africans (open access)Akin Ojagbemi, Oye Gureje Even though mental disorders can be found in every culture globally, the lived experi…
Medical Anthropology has just released a special issue, edited by Thurka Sangaramoorthy and Megan A. Carney, which offers insights into “the landscape of immigrant mental health and how…
Annual Review of Anthropology Food Insecurity, Nutritional Inequality, and Maternal–Child Health: A Role for Biocultural Scholarship in Filling Knowledge GapsBarbara A. Piperata & Darna L. Duf…
Rounding out September’s In the Journals compilation, here are several more articles of interest. See also these Special Issues on “Island Imaginaries” and “Beyond the Product…
Science as Culture (Special Issue: Island Imaginaries) Island Imaginaries: Introduction to a Special Section (free access)Mascha Gugganig, Nina Klimburg-Witjes Colonial empires, scientists, phi…
Medical Anthropology Quarterly Becoming Institutionalized: Incarceration as a Chronic Health ConditionJohanna T. Crane, Kelsey Pascoe This article examines incarceration as a chronic condition …
Social Science & Medicine Turning suffering into side effects: Responses to HPV vaccination in Colombia (open access)Maurizia Mezza, Stuart Blume How do unpleasant post-vaccination symptoms…
The highlights of August’s In The Journals (Pt.1) are: a Colloquy in Cultural Anthropology on “L’enfer, c’est les autres”: Proximity as an Ethical Problem during COVID-19″; a “doubl…
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…
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…
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…