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…
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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,…
In the Journals, October 2020, Part I by Emmanuelle Roth
Cultural Anthropology (Open Access) Beyond the Household: Caribbean Families and Biocultural Models of AlloparentingRobin G. Nelson Alloparental or extramaternal care is an integral aspect of h…
Special Issue: Doing the individual and the collective in forensic genetics: governance, race and restitution by Megh Marathe
BioSocieties has a new open-access special issue titled, “Doing the individual and the collective in forensic genetics: governance, race and restitution.” Edited by Amade M’charek and Pet…
Special Issue: Chronic Disaster: Reimagining Noncommunicable Chronic Disease by Megh Marathe
American Anthropologist has a new open-access Vital Topics Forum titled, Chronic Disaster: Reimagining Noncommunicable Chronic Disease. Edited by Alyshia Gálvez, Megan Carney, and Emily Yates-Doerr, …
In the Journals, September 2020, Part 2 by Megh Marathe
Anthropology & Medicine What drives distress? Rethinking the roles of emotion and diagnosis among people with diabetes in Nairobi, KenyaEmily Mendenhall, Abednego Musau, Edna Bosire, Victoria …
In the Journals, September 2020, Part 1 by Livia Garofalo
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry The Affective Creativity of a Couple in Dementia Care Jong-min Jeong The capacity to feel and express themselves in response to worldly surroundings i…
In the Journals – Policing and Discrimination
George Floyd protest signs at the Ottawa Courthouse by Janderson L. via wikimedia Welcome back to In the Journals! This ongoing series aims to bridge conversations that are…
In the Journals, August 2020, Part 2 by Hayley Ip
Social Science & Medicine Rural gerontological health: Emergent questions for research, policy and practice Laura I.L.Poulina, Mark W.Skinnera, NeilHanlon This article explores what can …
In the Journals, July 2020 (Part 3) by Shoshana Deutsh
This post includes articles published in both April 2020 and July 2020. In April, Technology and Culture featured a special section on Rethinking Reproductive Technologies and Modernities in…
In the Journals, August 2020, Part 1 by Arbel Griner
Cultural Anthropology (Open Access) Exhuming Dead Persons: Forensic Science and the Making of Post-fascist Publics in Spain (open access) Jonah S. Rubin Four decades after the fall of…
In the Journals – Police Abolition
Allegory of Justice (Sanctity of the Law) by The Metropolitan Museum of Art via PICRYL Welcome back to In the Journals! This ongoing series aims to bridge conversations…
Special Issue: Sensing Race as a Ghost Variable in Science, Technology, and Medicine by Raha Peyravi
The journal of Science, Technology, and Human Values has released a special issue edited by Katrina Karkazis and Rebecca Jordan-Young that highlights the invisibility of race in different…
In the Journals, July 2020 (Part 2) by Raha Peyravi
Critical Public Health Hostage to Fortune: an Empirical Study of the Tobacco Industry’s Business Strategies since the Advent of e-cigarettes (open access) Marisa de Andrade, Kathryn Angus, Ge…
In the Journals – Conflict and Captivity
POW release to UN authorities was the first step in repatriation. Here, communists turn over UN troops at the POW receiving center at Panmunjon, on the border of…
In the Journals – Confinement and Mental Health
Cour des agitées by Amand Gautier via wikimedia Welcome back to In the Journals! This ongoing series aims to bridge conversations that are often siloed by discipline, geographical…
In the Journals – Prisons and Pandemics
Prisoners’ Round by Vincent Van Gogh via wikimedia Welcome back to In the Journals! My name is Ally, I am a graduate student beginning a Master’s in Anthropology at…
Special Issue: The Global Psyche (Open Access) by Eliza Williamson
Medical Anthropology Quarterly has published a special issue, edited by Dominique P. Béhague and Kenneth MacLeish, featuring articles that “examine diverse incarnations of what might be called …
Special Issue: Framing “Post-AIDS” and Global Health Discourses in 2015 and Beyond by Eliza Williamson
The Journal of Medical Humanities has released a special issue, edited by Gráinne O’Connell, that “analyses the relevance, or possible critiques, of ‘post-AIDS’ rhetoric and global health…
Special Issue: Behind the Measures of Maternal Health by Eliza Williamson
Social Science & Medicine has published a special issue called “Behind the Measures of Maternal Health, Ethnographic Accounts of Inventory and Intervention,” edited by Jan Brunson and…