The July 2019 issue of Science, Technology & Human Values has a special issue, titled “Emerging Biotechnologies and the Reconfiguration of Mental Health”. The Death of the Clinic?…
I think this month’s articles would be of specific interest for looking to read on topics of risk and health, the politics of standardized evidence, boundaries of science…
Here are a selection of articles from June. The topics include issues of translation in social studies of medicine, access to health care, and many others. American Anthropologist…
Welcome back to In the Journals, a brief look at just a few articles that have been published in previous months on policing, law, and governance. These readings…
Here is the journal round-up for May! A very interesting batch of articles this month, including the very timely section in Cultural Anthropology on Reproductive Rights in the…
The March 2019 issue of Ethos, organized by Neely Myers and Kristin E. Yarris, focuses on “Extraordinary Conditions, Global Psychiatric Care, and Moral Subjectivity.” The collection close…
From: Diane M. Nelson, “Low Intensities,” Current Anthropology 60, no. S19 (February 2019): S122-S133. Welcome back to In the Journals, a brief look at just a few…
Here are some highlights from the journals in March 2019, including a special issue of Medical Anthropology dedicated to Human Animal Health in Medical Anthropology. Enjoy! American Anthropologist…
The History of Anthropology Newsletter has published a Special Focus section on Canguilhem’s “The Living and Its Milieu” (1952). The section includes six open access essays, and here…
Here are some highlights from the journals in February 2019. Enjoy! Cultural Anthropology (Open Access) Cultural Anthropology brings us multiple articles of interest, plus a collection of essays on…
The January roundup from the journals. Happy Reading! Body & Society Why Kinesthesia, Tactility and Affectivity Matter: Critical and Constructive Perspectives Maxine Sheets-Johnstone This article …
The December 2018 issue of Anthropology of Work Review is a special issue titled, “An Injury to One is an Injury to All: Immigrant Workers, Structural Vulnerability, and Occupational Injury.R…
The December 2018 issue of BioSocieties is a collection on epigenetics. Here are the abstracts. Enjoy! Situating the biosocial: Empirical engagements with environmental epigenetics from the lab to the…
From: Papachristos, A. V., Brazil, N. and Cheng, T. (2018), Understanding the Crime Gap: Violence and Inequality in an American City. City & Community, 17: 1051-1074. doi:10.1111/cico.12348 …
From the journals in December 2018, here’s some new reading for the first days of the new year. Enjoy! Medicine Anthropology Theory (Open Access) But are they actually…
Here are some highlights from last month’s journals. Enjoy! American Ethnologist Contractual dependencies: Disability and the bureaucracy of begging in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (op…
Late but still lively: it’s October’s installation of In the Journals. Annual Review of Anthropology Ethics in Human Biology: A Historical Perspective on Present Challenges Joanna Radin Th…
Map of Downtown Vancouver, taken from Fast, Danya, and David Cunningham. ““We Don’t Belong There”: New Geographies of Homelessness, Addiction, and Social Control in Vancouver’s Inner City.”…
Here’s the first part of the journal round-up for September. This month, American Anthropologist features a Special Section on Medical Anthropology in “World Anthropologies” and Etho…
Cultural Anthropology (Open Access) “A politics of habitability: plants, healing and sovereignty in a toxic world” Stacey Ann Langwick For Tanzanians, modern bodies bear complicated toxi…
Here are a variety of articles from July 2018. Trends: There are a number of articles on pregnancy, aging populations and elder care; as well as analyses of…
Medical Humanities Images as catalysts for meaning-making in medical pain encounters: a multidisciplinary analysis Deborah Padfield, Helen Omand, Elena Semino, Amanda C de C Williams, Joanna M Zakrzew…
Lots and lots to read this month, starting with an article by our In the Journals contributor Julia Kowalski in Political and Legal Anthropology Review: Bureaucratizing Sensitivity: Documents and…
The June 2018 issue of Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science is an issue about Georges Canguilhem’s life, work and intellectual legacies. The journal is open…