(Un)Categorizing Albinism by Giorgio Brocco
“Everything started with a little spot in the head, right up [by] my right ear! I don’t even remember the precise day or week I discovered it. Instead,…
Tag: medicine/biomedicine
Taking part in and being part of giving birth: Enacting participation in a midwife-led birth situation by Annekatrin Skeide
According to her midwife Jana, Mira’s was a textbook birth: it was quite fast, even for a second birth, and proceeded without any complications. In reflecting on her…
Opening up shrinking life-worlds by Maarten van Westen
Lives change dramatically as dementia progresses. Using observations of people suffering from obsessions and compulsions, I will analyse this change along three dimensions. Obsessive-Compulsive Disord…
Pricing the EpiPen: Drug Prices, Corporate Governance, and the Financialization of Biomedicine by Danya Glabau
Why does Mylan’s EpiPen cost so much? That was a question many parents of food allergic children found themselves asking this past August, as a flurry of news…
Conference Report: The Humanization of Health Sciences through Innovation in Health Professions Education by Thomas Cousins
Brocher Foundation, May 2016 Introduction This three-day event took place at the Brocher Foundation Institute, Geneva, from May 17-20 2016, and was generously funded by a Brocher Foundation…
Graphic Medicine and Medical Anthropology by Dana Walrath
Introduction When I began my graphic memoir series, Aliceheimers, it focused just on life with my mother Alice before and during dementia. But the revelatory insight that she…
Technologies of Care: Administering Donated Breast Milk in a South African Neonatal Intensive Care Unit by Miriam Waltz
This is the third installment of the series from the University of Cape Town’s First Thousand Day Research Group. My research traces out the pathways of donated milk…