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https://read.qxmd.com/read/37831438/-more-concerned-about-mr-and-mrs-denmark-coping-with-pandemic-crisis-at-the-intersection-of-homelessness-and-drug-use
#21
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Maj Nygaard-Christensen
This article builds on fieldwork conducted during lockdown in Denmark among users of services at the intersection of homelessness and drug use. The paper bridges two distinct approaches to understanding the relation between marginalization and crisis, with one focused on the impact of "big events" on marginalized populations, and another on everyday strategies employed to survive situations of homelessness and drug use. The paper shows how past experiences of hardship became relevant for coping with pandemic crisis...
October 13, 2023: Medical Anthropology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37796880/recentering-labor-in-the-egg-donation-bioeconomy-egg-donors-re-productive-work-and-subjectification-in-spain
#22
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Anna Molas
In 2019, Spanish fertility clinics reached a historical record of ova extractions. A total of 14,521 surgeries were performed to serve the growing egg demand internationally. Here I show how bringing a cycle to completion is not an easy task for egg donors. Selecting a clinic, understanding their own biocapital in the industry and how to invest it, fitting the cycle into their lives, and managing pain and emotions become crucial parts of their work. I argue that these activities constitute a vast amount of labor that, although essential for the generation of value in reproductive bioeconomies, remains invisible and undertheorized...
October 5, 2023: Medical Anthropology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37796867/articulating-interesting-subject-positions-for-people-with-dementia-on-hanging-out-in-dutch-nursing-homes
#23
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Annelieke Driessen
In this article, drawing on ethnographic research on everyday life and care for people with dementia in Dutch residential care, I argue that researchers who work with people with dementia can contribute to the enactment of "interesting subject positions," thereby enriching the ways in which life with the condition is understood. The crux, I propose, is to use "hanging out" as a method and to ask "interesting questions," an approach that enables participants to let researchers know what matters to them. Researchers, in turn, are enabled to "say more" about dementia, and to bring to light interesting subject positions...
October 5, 2023: Medical Anthropology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37788325/navigating-chemical-toxicity-in-coca-production-in-the-colombian-borderlands-of-putumayo
#24
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Camilo Acero, Linda Ordoñez, Magdalena Harris, Tim Rhodes, Adam Holland, Francisco Gutierrez-Sanín
In Putumayo, a jungle borderland in southern Colombia, thousands of farmers derive their livelihood from the cultivation and processing of coca leaf, exposing themselves to fertilizers, pesticides, and other toxic chemicals on a daily basis. In this article, we show how the coca growers' relationship with chemicals and the health risks to which they are exposed, are politically and institutionally structured. We discuss the specific impact of anti-narcotics policy in a broader context of deep inequalities and document the emergent and adaptive day-to-day attempts of the farmers to navigate the structural risk environment...
October 3, 2023: Medical Anthropology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37747451/antibiotics-in-catalan-primary-care-prescription-use-and-remedies-for-a-crisis-of-care
#25
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Adam Brisley, Helen Lambert, Carla Rodriguez
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the twenty-first century's major health challenges. Linked to the extensive use of antibiotics and other antimicrobials, resistance occurs when microbes stop responding to medications. Rates of antibiotic consumption in Spain are among the highest in Europe. Drawing on research conducted in Catalonia, in this article we present findings from ethnographic fieldwork and semi-structured interviews with general practitioners, residents of Barcelona, and professionals who have worked in antibiotic stewardship...
September 25, 2023: Medical Anthropology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37722815/ethics-in-ethnography-lessons-of-amana-and-ghayb-in-the-middle-east-for-medical-anthropology
#26
EDITORIAL
Ashwak Sam Hauter
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September 18, 2023: Medical Anthropology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37682635/understanding-gut-sensations-irritable-bowel-syndrome-and-diagnostic-fluidity-in-danish-clinical-practice
#27
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Camilla Brændstrup Laursen, Rikke Sand Andersen, Marie Louise Tørring
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a prevalent health challenge in a Danish welfare context. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at two Danish gastroenterology clinics, and inspired by Charles E. Rosenberg's idea of styles of explaining widespread diseases, we outline three styles of understanding and treating gut trouble in daily clinical work: "The microbial gut," "the mindful gut," and "the lifestyled gut." Moreover, we suggest the concept of fluidity to characterize IBS as a diagnostic category that allows clinicians and patients to operate through complex understandings of permeable boundaries between body, mind, and environment to negotiate personalized solutions for embodied gut sensations...
September 8, 2023: Medical Anthropology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37676028/the-trouble-of-stigma-in-the-age-of-datafication-screening-for-mental-health-issues-in-a-refugee-camp-in-jordan
#28
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lars Rune Christensen, Hasib Ahsan
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Jordan, this article investigates how datafication through digital screening technologies helps shape mental health issues in the face of widespread uneasiness about the subject, especially among the intended beneficiaries. We argue that the refugees and their health care providers face a dilemma: on the one hand, the desire to make mental health issues visible and clinically actionable through datafication and, on the other hand, the wish to keep mental health issues out of public view to avoid potential stigma...
September 7, 2023: Medical Anthropology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37655987/correction
#29
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September 1, 2023: Medical Anthropology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37651622/turning-towards-the-affective-medical-semiotics-of-child-maltreatment-in-denmark
#30
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Camilla Hoffmann Merrild
Signs of child maltreatment may be physical and detectable by clinical examination but may also arise as a feeling of strangeness that sparks uncertainty. Based on fieldwork in Danish general practice, and thinking along recent discussions around semiotics and affect, the article explores how feelings of "strangeness" arise in child consultations. It focuses on how subjective, embodied, and interpersonal reactions arise, how signs, however tactile and arbitrary, are felt and experienced, and how engaging with affective aspects when doing diagnosis, could expand the medical semiotics of child maltreatment...
August 31, 2023: Medical Anthropology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37647280/complimentary-addictions-pharmaceutical-experimentalism-and-the-problem-of-recovery-in-baltimore
#31
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sanaullah Khan
In Baltimore, clients in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) experiment with prescription medicine and in doing so face new risks of noncompliance as they tread this blurry line between medical and illegal. This can potentially lead to suspension from drug treatment programs, resulting in clients finding the next most suitable treatment center to enroll into. I argue that the close interaction between drug treatment centers and illegal markets results in new pharmaceutical dependencies, forms of self-care as well as suspicions toward, but also among clients, about their intentions to recover...
August 30, 2023: Medical Anthropology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37610787/drawing-in-ethnography-seeing-and-unseeing-everyday-life-with-dementia-in-sweden
#32
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Helena Cleeve
In this article, I present how drawing offers valuable ethnographic possibilities in care settings where verbal communication is challenging. The empirical examples derive from a study where I drew in situ in dementia care units to explore what residents and staff members found important in their everyday practices. I demonstrate how experimenting with the drawing process as well as the resulting drawings enabled diverse forms of participation to see and unsee matters together with residents and staff members...
August 23, 2023: Medical Anthropology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37603702/signs-of-nothing-negotiations-over-semiotic-indeterminacy-in-danish-lung-cancer-diagnostics
#33
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Michal Frumer
In Denmark, injunctions of "early" cancer diagnosis increasingly imply surveillance of small tissue changes, which may or may not develop into cancer. Based on fieldwork at diagnostic lung cancer clinics and with people in CT surveillance for tissue changes, I explore how detected tissue changes are ascribed meaning as signs of "nothing" or "something." Inspired by Peircean semiotics, I suggest that the semiotic indeterminacy of tissue changes points to how diagnostic socialities both expand medical semiotics and enable this expansion...
August 21, 2023: Medical Anthropology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37581532/researching-words-without-speaking-them-language-as-care-practice-in-multi-lingual-care-environments-in-poland
#34
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Luise Schurian-Dąbrowska, Kristine Krause
Being able to speak and understand local languages is regarded as an important prerequisite for conducting fieldwork. In this article we reflect on fieldwork in which we did not speak the local language - Polish - but in which we could still learn something about a central practice in our field sites: how language was implicated in practices of care. Hanging out as linguistically constricted researchers propelled us to research situations in which care was done through using words as sounds and practices, rather than relying on meanings, and to relate to not sharing a language in new ways...
August 15, 2023: Medical Anthropology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37561925/-watering-down-strict-hiv-testing-quotas-on-chinese-men-who-have-sex-with-men-community-based-organizations
#35
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Andrew T Wortham
The Chinese Center for Disease Control employs Community-Based Organizations (CBO) to conduct mass testing on "hidden" Men who have Sex with Men (MSM). Testing MSMs is intended to make risky bodies legible to the state and discipline the CBOs around narrow health goals. However, detailed ethnographic fieldwork with MSM CBOs in southwest China demonstrates that pressures to achieve HIV testing quotas produce the need to "water-down" or manipulate data. This distorts the identities and practices of MSMs from state surveillance and builds collusive partnerships between CBOs and low-level government officials to mitigate the disciplinary impacts of strict audits...
August 10, 2023: Medical Anthropology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37552820/emerging-technologies-for-preventing-the-new-dementia-ambiguous-optimism-in-the-canadian-context
#36
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Annette Leibing, Cynthia Lazzaroni, Niklas Petersen
Experts' views on the use of mostly digital technologies for dementia prevention are characterized by a simultaneity of "gerontechnological optimism" and skeptical hesitancy. Despite the hope for progress in dementia prevention through preventive technologies, experts also point to the complexity of prevention, the importance of environmental factors and public health policies, and the danger of an excessive focus on individual interventions. Without questioning the positive impact such technologies can have on many people, we claim that the experts' ambiguity reveals a deeper concern, a kind of "cruel optimism" that is based on a fantasy of "supported autonomy"...
August 8, 2023: Medical Anthropology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37526927/intimate-compromise-reproduction-piety-and-medicine-among-american-orthodox-christians
#37
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cristina A Pop
Drawing on ethnographic findings from an American Orthodox Christian community, I examine how forms of intimate reproductive compromise facilitate the assertive refusal to negotiate on abortion. The American Orthodox harness the values and practices of biomedicine to validate their refusal of abortion, but their inflexible views emerge from prior compromises. By not giving up modern contraception, women self-fashion forms of piety that allow them to navigate composite identities while remaining dedicated to a pro-life stance...
August 1, 2023: Medical Anthropology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37526924/the-weariness-of-hoping-synchronizing-affect-while-awaiting-organ-transplantation-for-cystic-fibrosis-in-germany
#38
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Stefan Reinsch, Jörg Niewöhner, Carsten Schwarz
We describe the challenges in synchronizing affect during the lengthy lead-up to organ transplantation. Our analysis draws on ethnographic fieldwork in Eastern Germany among medical staff caring for patients with cystic fibrosis, a progressive, genetic illness. Patient and practitioners must together endure an uncertain wait for a donor organ, while simultaneously living and working toward living as well as possible. The organizing affective principle in this setting is hoping, which is a socio-material practice that must be continuously and interactively re-produced...
August 1, 2023: Medical Anthropology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37526633/mistrustful-dependency-mistrust-as-risk-management-in-an-italian-emergency-department
#39
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mirko Pasquini
Mistrust is increasingly a daily reality of healthcare delivery worldwide. Yet it remains understudied as a form of relationship and a force in its own right. I address this gap through the ethnography of an Italian Emergency Department (ED), where conflicts have increased since the 2008 financial crisis. I show how mistrust does not result in a breakdown of healthcare interactions. Rather, mistrust is used in ambivalent care relationships to negotiate the roles, the risks, and the power that patients and staff are willing to entrust to others...
August 1, 2023: Medical Anthropology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37526472/multispecies-childcare-child-veganism-and-the-reimagining-of-health-reproduction-and-gender-in-switzerland
#40
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Edmée Ballif
Influenced by nutritional science, feeding children is generally thought of in terms of children's health and well-being. Here, I ask whether child veganism, with its focus on animal welfare and environmental concerns, challenges this model. Drawing from reproductive studies, I focus on Swiss vegan parents' ideas about food to illuminate a "multispecies," less anthropocentric form of childcare. While their ethic opens up new perspectives on health and childcare, I discuss how "sustainable" reproductive practices can also solidify gender stereotypes and modes of ordering species...
August 1, 2023: Medical Anthropology
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