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…
Critical Public Health On difference and doubt as tools for critical engagement with public health Catherine M. Will This paper argues that critical public health should reengage with…
This is Part II of March’s article round-up. You can find part I here. In addition to the articles below, Theory, Culture and Society features an interview with…
Welcome back to In the Journals, a monthly review of just a fraction of the most recent academic research on security, crime, policing, and the law. With the…
Here is Part I of our March article round-up. American Anthropologist A Dog’s Life: Suffering Humanitarianism in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Greg Beckett In the Bel Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince,…
I’d like to highlight a pair of Special Sections in the early 2017 issues of Critical Public Health. The first is “The Publics of Public Health in Africa,”…
Welcome to a new year of Somatosphere’s In the Journals section! Here are some of the articles available in January 2017. Enjoy! Medical Anthropology Chronic Subjunctivity, or, How…
The first issue of Medical Anthropology in 2017 is a special issue, “Between Biopolitical Governance and Care: Rethinking Health, Self, and Social Welfare in East Asia.” Enjoy! Between Bio…