What Makes An Egg Collapse?: Infrastructures of Egg Freezing
“I am not really emotionally ready for children, but this is on my mind on repeat: Biologically speaking, your eggs are collapsing, your eggs are collapsing.” I heard…
“I am not really emotionally ready for children, but this is on my mind on repeat: Biologically speaking, your eggs are collapsing, your eggs are collapsing.” I heard…
MINNA EYRE Dear The Rt Hon Liz Kendall MP, Secretary of State, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), I am a postgraduate Medical Anthropology student at University…
LOTUS LI Dr Rachel Quinn – Executive Director of Strategy and Partnerships at National Academy for Social Prescribing Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX 1 Apri…
Imagine that every time you poop, your hygiene routine involves depositing your used toilet paper into a toilet-side receptacle. As you wash your hands, the device mixes, processes,…
Outbreak mitigation always operates within a tension between technical expertise (lo técnico) and political imperatives (lo político). My conversations with epidemiologists in Guatemala over the past …
Dr. Sinha[1] is the anti-Benjamin of our times. He asks his patients to believe in the aura of the machine. When I meet him in the treatment room…
Donna Haraway opens When Species Meet with the proclamation that “human genomes can be found in only about 10 percent of all the cells that occupy the mundane…
This special series examines the spatial, temporal, and conceptual boundaries of infection. As a primarily analytic approach, the authors in this series unpack epidemiologic keywords such as outbreak,…
In 2022, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s son died at the age of twenty-six from a lifelong battle with cerebral palsy, a neurological disorder caused by birth-related brain damage.…
By Giulia Sinatti – Ten years since its last edition, the Medical Anthropology Europe (MAE) conference returned in September 2025 with a live (and online) four-day event in Vienna…
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com The following post is based on a lecture I gave in the course, ‘Drugs Across Cultures,’ on steroids and performance-enhancing drugs. A very-beta version…
How the anthropology of reciprocity helps explain our reliance on plastic in healthcare. Single-use disposable medical plastic waste is a huge issue. But rational, scientific solutions will only…
“Hannah, roll a six!,” Mahad, Alliance Wellness recovery program resident, pleaded as the game of Ludo intensified. Ludo, a strategic and competitive board game, was popular among Somali…
Authors’ Note: The following essay uses the words “women” and “girls” in order to mirror the phrasing and experiences of cited literature as well as the responses of…
LECKHNA PARAS CHAJED Gillian Keegan Secretary of State for Education House of Commons London SW1A 0AA Dear Gillian Keegan, RE: A call to improve the quality of menstrual…
ELI SHLEIFER Matthew Rycroft CBE, Permanent Secretary Home Office, 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF April 2024 Dear Sir Matthew Rycroft KCMG CBE,  …
STEFFI SHARMA Wes Streeting MP Secretary of State for Health and Social Care 39 Victoria Street London SW1H 0EU Dear Secretary of Health and Social Care, I write…
LIVIA SAPERE To: Giorgia Meloni Palazzo Chigi Piazza Colonna, 370 00187 Roma (RM), Italy Dear Giorgia Meloni, I am writing to address the decision of your government to…
TEONÉ BURRIDGE Sir Chris Bryant House of Commons London SW1A 0AA Dear Sir Chris Bryant, I am writing to you, the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on…
DORA FREITAS April 2024 James Cleverly House of CommonsLondonSW1A 0AA Dear Home Secretary, James Cleverly, On the 4th of December 2023, you announced during a parliamentary debate…
Once a week, I get to play doctor. Setting aside the endless anki cards and slide decks familiar to all medical students in their preclinical training, I turn…
By Annikki Herranen-Tabibi, Harvard Medical School, United States On a sweltering afternoon in the congested Expo City of Dubai, I entered the COP28 Visitor Center to collect my…
Surfing’s roots are in long-standing cultures in the Pacific Islands, South America, and West Africa. After wave-riding was banned by European Missionaries who deemed it leisurely and “sav…
Bedtime stories are stories narrated by adults to children before they fall asleep. As an essential parenting skill, the storytelling scene is infused with love and trust. These…