In the Journals – September 2018, Part I by Livia Garofalo
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…
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…
We hope you find articles of interest in this month’s In The Journals selections. Happy reading! American Ethnologist Quantitative care: Caring for the aggregate in US academic population…
The open-access journal Medicine Anthropology Theory has published a special collection of essays titled “Critical perspectives on US global health partnerships in Africa and beyond.” Her…
History of the Human Sciences (31[2]) has published a special issue about “zones of uncertainty that defy psychopathology’s order of things.” The issue, Psychopathological Fringes: Knowled…
Anthropology & Medicine (Vol 25 [1]) brings us a special issue on Genomics and Genetic Medicine, edited by Sahra Gibbon, Susie Kilshaw & Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner. See below for the…
The most recent issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology is a special issue on Cognitive Disability, edited by Patrick McKearney and Tyler Zoanni. Enjoy! Introduction: For an Anthropology…
March featured a number of special issues of interest to Somatosphere readers: Anthropology & Medicine has a special issue, “Genomics and Genetic Medicine: Pathways to Global Health?” Contemporary…
Here are some of the articles published in February 2018. Among them are two Special Issues I’d like to highlight: first, Social Science & Medicine brings us a…
In addition to the articles highlighted in this month’s regular “In the Journals” post, the January issue of Science, Technology, & Human Values is a themed issue on “The H…
Here are some articles of interest published in January 2018. Enjoy! Social Science & Medicine The consequence of “doing nothing”: Family caregiving for Alzheimer’s disease as non-action in…
Happy new year! This post rounds off Somatosphere’s 2017 “In the Journals,” with articles published in December. Enjoy! Medical Anthropology Quarterly (In)Visibility Online: The Bene…
Here’s a selection of articles of interest published last month. Enjoy! Anthropology Now I Feel, Therefore I Matter: Emotional Rhetoric and Autism Self-Advocacy Ben Belek How do people…
International Journal of Social Psychiatry (September issue) Becoming a patient-illness representations of depression of Anglo-Australian and Sri Lankan patients through the lens of Leventhal’s illne…
Hi folks! Without further ado, the second half of September’s installment: Medical Anthropology Quarterly Normal, Regular, and Standard: Scaling the Body through Fecal Microbial Transplants Mat…
In case you missed it, here’s a special issue that may be of interest: In Anthropology & Medicine, Diverse Bodies: The Challenge of New Theoretical Approaches to Medical Anthropology.…
Here is the article round-up for August, put together in collaboration with Ann Marie Thornburg. There is a special issue section of Social Science and Medicine out this month…
American Quarterly Queer History, Mad History, and the Politics of Health Regina Kunzel Among the central themes of the eclectic field of mad studies is a critique of…
The first part of the In the Journals post for June 2017 can be found here. And now, for part two… Medical Humanities SPECIAL ISSUE: Communicating Mental…
Please enjoy the article round-up for the month of May! This post was put together in collaboration with Ann Marie Thornburg. American Ethnologist Plant matters: Buddhist medicine and economies…