While we’ve run many book reviews and conference reports in Somatosphere over the course of its first five years, many of the posts we call “features” don’t fit as clearly into distinct categories.  In what follows we list a selection (though certainly not all) of these posts from the past five years.  They range from research and fieldwork reports, to thought pieces, to engagements with contemporary events, to syllabi, and interviews.  While some are organized by genre (interviews and teaching resources), or as specific series, we’ve grouped others around broad topics. Enjoy!

 

Psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health

• Stephanie Lloyd, Field Notes from Paris: Social Pathology and the Globalization of Sentiments
• Neely Myers, Call for Research: Ethnography, Psychosis and At-Risk Groups
• Eugene Raikhel, The Globalization of Biopsychiatry
• Eugene Raikhel, More on Exporting American Madness
• Doerte Bemme and Nicole D’souza, Global Mental Health and Its Discontents
• Nev Jones, Agency, Biogenetic Discourse and Psychiatric Disorder
• Constance Cummings, DSM-5: Plus ça change…
• Eugene Raikhel, Give Me the Fear!
• Sarah Pinto, The Dance – Medicine and the Idea of Movement
• Jeff Snodgrass, Toward a Neuroanthropology of Immersive Online Gaming and Cyberdependence

 

The political economy and everyday life of pharmaceuticals

• Eugene Raikhel, Grandma’s Little Helper
• Kalman Applbaum, The Colonization of Pharmaceutical Science by Marketing
• Kalman Applbaum, Pharmaceutical Marketing, Capitalism, and Medicine: A Primer (Part I, Part II, Part III)
• Eugene Raikhel, The Prevalent Placebo
• Eugene Raikhel, Moving Beyond Race in Pharmacogenomics?
• Kalman Applbaum, Cases for Overhauling Pharmaceutical Governance
• Kalman Applbaum, Warning Label Spin: Further Reflections on What the FDA is Up Against
• Kalman Applbaum, PDUFA, Drug Safety, and Marketing
• Kalman Applbaum, Pharmaceutical Marketing and Abstraction of Consumer Needs
• Kalman Applbaum, Pharmaceutical Branding is Just Getting Started (Part I, Part II)
• Kalman Applbaum, Four Good Questions about Pharmaceutical Industry Reform
• Roberto Abadie, Exotic Guinea Pigs at Home: An Ethnography of Professional Research Subjects in the US
• Liz Oloft, Prozac in the Closet
• Liz Oloft, Learning to Love Meds: Americans’ Attitudes to Psych Meds may have Improved Since Late 90s
• Kalman Applbaum, Clean Pharma Crusader: Senator Chuck Grassley’s Enigmatic Campaign to Combat Rising Healthcare Costs
• Carl Elliott, A Psychiatric Research Scandal and an Accidental Activist
• Tazin Karim, Meducating Our Children: The Moral Influence of Adderall on Education, Parenting, and Treatment

 

Kalman Applbaum’s Risperdal on Trial series

• Risperdal on Trial, Texas Style
• The Risperdal Trial in Texas, Continued: Establishing not just facts, but the yardstick by which facts are to be measured, and other matters
• A Matter of Trust: Clinical Trial Evidence vs. Physicians’ Judgment in the Courtroom
• The Banality of Corporate Corruption: Janssen’s Reimbursement Department on the Stand
• Lucre and the Law: A Money Narrative of Who Stands to Gain from Suing a Pharmaceutical Company

 

Transcriptions: HIV, Science and the Social

A collaborative forum for critical enquiry on HIV/AIDS and global health: experiment, ethics, and practice

• Thomas Cousins, Release of Report on “HIV and the Law” by the Global Commission on HIV and the Law
• Agata Pacho, Treatment as Prevention: recognising the creative potential of antiretroviral medications
• Samuel Friedman, Recently-funded Transdisciplinary Integrated HIV Prevention Project: Overview and challenges
• Tsitsi Masvawure, “Abstinence doesn’t work, so use condoms”: Critical responses to Christian youth sexualities and HIV prevention in Africa
• Sarah Bernays, Uncomfortable research: expectations and experiences in examinations of HIV/AIDS and ‘hope’ in Serbia
• Steven Robins, From saving lives to cutting costs? Challenges for a new era for activism
• Hans Huang, HIV testing, neoliberal governance, and the new moral regime of gay health in Taiwan
• Judy Auerbach, On “Activism”
• Marsha Rosengarten, PrEP: time to rethink prevention, effectiveness and ethics?
• Ippolytos Kalofonos, Therapeutic Enclaves in Central Mozambique? Lives Saved, Livelihoods Lost

 

The anthropology of political subjectivity

• Sadeq Rahimi, Political Subjectivity and Mental Health
• Sadeq Rahimi, Political Subjectivity and (Jameson’s) Political Unconscious
• Sadeq Rahimi, The Unconscious: Metaphor and Metonymy
• Sadeq Rahimi, The (Lacanian) Unconscious: Structure and Negative Ontology
• Sadeq Rahimi, The Hegelian Subject: Negativity and the Desire for Desire
• Sadeq Rahimi, Political Subjectivity – In Action
• Sadeq Rahimi, Subjectivity at the Intersection of Metaphoric and Metonymic Functions

 

Infectious diseases and multispecies ethnography

• Ann Kelly, Mosquito Huts; Wundercabinets and Social Models
• Erin Koch, Microbes and Anthropology
• Erin Koch, Emerging Thoughts on Swine Flu
• Erin Koch, Swine Flu, Cont.: Mini-Post
• Eugene Raikhel, Anthropologists on H1N1 Flu
• Natalie Porter, Bird Flu: The Circulation of Life and Death in a Postspecies World
• Eugene Raikhel, Turning to Animals
• Michael Oldani, The Rise of Multispecies Ethnography

 

Bodies: eating, sleeping, enhanced, disabled

• Emily Yates-Doerr, Complex Carbohydrates: On the Relevance of Ethnography in Nutrition Education
• Simon Williams and Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Longing for Sleep: Assessing the Place of Sleep in the 21^st Century (Part I, Part II, Part III)
• Silvia Camporesi, Caster Semenya and Athletic Excellence: A Critique of Olympic Sex-Testing
• Seth Messinger, Medical Anthropology in a Military Treatment Facility
• Michele Friedner, From disability stigma to disability value: Notes from research on disability in urban India

 

Health and medicine 20 years after the Soviet Union

• Eugene Raikhel, Health and medicine 20 years after the Soviet Union
• Shelly Yankovskyy, Mental Health Care in Ukraine: Twenty Years after the Soviet Union
• Anna Geltzer, The Rise and Fall of the Extrasense
• Inna Leykin, ‘Population Prescriptions:’ Pronatalism and the Fear of Underpopulation in Post-Soviet Russia
• Elizabeth King, Social Vulnerability, Health Behaviors, and Political Responsibility: HIV Testing and Treatment for Female Sex Workers in St. Petersburg, Russia

 

Politics and technologies

• Chris Garces, Preamble to an Ethnography of the People’s Mic
• Sarah D. Phillips, Chernobyl Forever
• Sarah D. Phillips, Fukushima is not Chernobyl? Don’t Be so Sure
• Mary Jean Hande, From Narrowed Veins to Liberation: An Anthropological Analysis of the Canadian Liberation Therapy Movement
• Pierre Minn, The Coordination and Un-coordination of International Medical Aid in Haiti
• Ari Samsky, Populations, Sovereignty, Drugs
• Ryan J. Cook, “I Didn’t Want to be One of the Contaminated People”: Confronting a Mystery Illness in a Rural American Landscape
• Saiba Varma, Springtime in Kashmir: A Tale of Two Protests

 

Anthropology and/as/of Science

• Jacob Hickman, The “Science” of Anthropology?
• Eugene Raikhel, They Blinded Me with Science: Further Thoughts on the AAA Controversy
• Erin Koch, “Science” versus “Public Understanding”? Some Thoughts on the Distinction…
• Mark Robinson, The Privatization of Neuroscience: The University, The State and the Moral Aims of Science
• Theresa MacPhail, Epidemiology, the “Data Deluge,” and the Problem of “Good” Information
• Celina Callahan-Kapoor, Medicine and Science, Unpredicted

 

Methodology, collaboration and conversation across the disciplines and professions

• Eugene Raikhel, Critical Neuroscience and Anthropological Engagement
• Anthony Stavrianakis, Public Debate and the Conflict of the Faculties
• Nick Shapiro, On Collaborating with Journalists
• Kimberly Sue, Are IRBs a Stumbling Block for Engaged Anthropology?
• Ita Irizarry, We’re Not the Enemy!: Mending Fences Between Researchers and the IRB (Response to Kimberly Sue, Are IRBs a Stumbling Block for Engaged Anthropology?)
• Anthony Stavrianakis and Gaymon Bennett, On Concept Work
• Des Fitzgerald, On the Pragmatics and Politics of Collaborative Work between the Social and Life Sciences

 

Biographies, histories and archaeologies

• Eugene Raikhel, The Berlin Wall as Metaphor and Diagnosis
• Kalman Applbaum, Psychoanalytic Metaphors and Mythical Medical Realities in Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Contribution to Medical Anthropology
• Wenzel Geissler, Ann Kelley, Guillaume Lachenal and John Maton, The Archaeology of Past Futures, or Fieldwork by Fragments
• Gillaume Lachenal, Kin Porn
• Nicolas Henckes and Anne Lovell, Robert Castel (1933-2013)

Teaching resources

• Eugene Raikhel, Resources for Teaching Medical Anthropology
• Ian Whitmarsh, Medical Governance, Culture, and Subjectivities: a Syllabus
• Eugene Raikhel, Teaching Anthropology of the Body
• Janelle Taylor, On Teaching “Perspectives in Medical Anthropology”
• Chris Garces, Teaching Critique of Humanitarianism: A Syllabus for Comparative Study
• Eugene Raikhel, Syllabus: Culture, Mental Health and Psychiatry
• Jeff Snodgrass, Syllabi on Culture and Mental Health
• Daniel Sharp, Educational Video Database on Genetic/Reproductive Technologies & Social Issues
• Rebecca Prentice, Medical anthropology films
• Eugene Raikhel, Videos of “Cultural Psychiatry: A Critical Introduction”
  

 

Top of the Heap

• Janelle Taylor and Hannah Landecker
• Emily Martin
• Jamie Saris and Elizabeth Wilson
• Richard Keller

 

Interviews

• Eugene Raikhel, An Interview with Marcia Inhorn (2010)
• Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Thinking Through Other Worlds: An Interview with Mei Zhan (2010)
• Nick Shapiro, A Biographical Interview with Byron Good (2010)
• Neely Myers, The Afflictions Series: An Interview with Ethnographic Filmmaker Robert Lemelson (2013)
• Karen A. Frenkel, A Conversation with Karen Nakamura (2013)
• Talia Gordon, A Conversation with Paul Brodwin (2013)