We know, we know: you’ve been overloaded with end-of-the-year lists and it’s already 2015 in most of the world, so we’ll be quick. On behalf of the Editorial Collaborative, we offer a big thanks to all of our series and section editors – they’re named below – our book reviewers, our guest contributors, and of course, our readers.
Here’s a listing of the posts of 2014, organized by section or series. We’ll have much more coming up in 2015, but for now: Happy New Year!
Features
- Psychiatry After Ferguson by Jonathan Metzl
- Multispecies vs. Anthropocene by John Hartigan
- Knowledge of Living by Ayo Wahlberg
- On Relevance (The Very Idea) by Martin Savransky
- Encounters of Violence and Care: Central American Transit Migration through Mexico by Kristin Yarris and Heide Castañeda
- The Recent History of “Contagious Shooting” (1982-2006) and More Recent Events in Ferguson, Missouri by Stephen T. Casper
- Pesticides and global health: ‘ambivalent objects’ in anthropological perspective by Tom Widger
- How the Face Became an Organ by Samuel Taylor-Alexander
- Remaking Local Biologies in Epigenetic Time by Maurizio Meloni
- Not moribund at all! An historian of medicine’s response to Richard Horton by Carsten Timmermann
- Autism, sociality, and human nature by Gregory Hollin
- Beyond “Wombs for Rent”: Indian Surrogates and the Need for Evidence-Based Policy by Daisy Deomampo
- Jean Oury and Clinique de La Borde: A Conversation with Camille Robcis by Todd Meyers
- On dialogue: disability studies and science & technology studies by Laura Mauldin
- The broad clinical gaze in paediatric deep brain stimulation by John Gardner
- The Joy of Giving: Emotion as Rationality in the Moral Economies of Survival by Stacey A. McKenna
- Making up “persons” in personalized medicine with metabolomics by Nadine Levin
- Religion, Secularism, and Science at the Spanish Exhumation by Rachel Ceasar
Ebola Fieldnotes
- Rethinking Infrastructures for Global Health: A View from West Africa and Papua New Guinea by Alice Street
- Caring as existential insecurity: quarantine, care, and human insecurity in the Ebola crisis by Sung-Joon Park and René Umlauf
- Ebola 2014. Chronicle of a well-prepared disaster by Guillaume Lachenal
- From the dragon’s perspective: an initial report on China’s response to the unfolding Ebola epidemic by Emilio Dirlikov and Qiuyu Jiang
- Against Sick States: Ebola Protests in Austerity Spain by Janina Kehr
- On gloves, rubber and the spatio-temporal logics of global health by Uli Beisel
- Ebola and emergency anthropology: The view from the “global health slot” by Crystal Biruk
- Ten Things that Anthropologists Can Do to Fight the West African Ebola Epidemic by Sharon Abramowitz
- Race and the immuno-logics of Ebola response in West Africa by Adia Benton
- An Emerging Infections Disease Perspective, Inter Alia by Raad Fadaak
- Notes from Case Zero: Anthropology in the Time of Ebola by Almudena Marí Sáez, Ann Kelly, and Hannah Brown
- Web Roundup: Ebola Update by Sara Bergstresser
- Web Roundup: Ebola by Sara Bergstresser
Commonplaces (edited by Tomas Matza and Harris Solomon)
- EEG by John Modern
- Reflex/Рефлекс by Eugene Raikhel
- Life Support by Zoë Wool and Nick Dupree
- Human by Peter Redfield
- Manual by Jonathan Metzl
- Cut by Eric Plemons
- Brain by Nima Bassiri
- Table by Emily Martin
- Petri Dish by Elizabeth F.S. Roberts
- Bleach by Alex Nading
- Anesthesia by Todd Meyers
- Heart by Ian Whitmarsh
- Scale by Emily Yates-Doerr
- Spray by Vanessa Agard-Jones
- Tolerance by Warwick Anderson
- Script by Mara Buchbinder and Dragana Lassiter
A Reader’s Guide to the “Ontological Turn”
- Part 4 by Annemarie Mol
- Part 3 by Morten Axel Pederson
- Part 2 by Javier Lezaun
- Part 1 by Judith Farquhar
The Collaborative Turn: Interdisciplinarity Across the Human Sciences (edited by Des Fitzgerald, Nev Jones, Suparna Choudhury, Michele Friedner, Nadine Levin, Stephanie Lloyd, Todd Meyers, Neely Myers, and Eugene Raikhel)
- Confusion, Truth, and Bureaucracy: A reply to Fitzgerald and Callard by Anthony Stavrianakis, Gaymon Bennett, Lyle Fearnley, and Paul Rabinow
- Entangled in the collaborative turn: observations from the field by Des Fitzgerald and Felicity Callard
- The collaborative turn: interdisciplinarity across the human sciences by Des Fitzgerald, Nev Jones, Suparna Choudhury, Michele Friedner, Nadine Levin, Stephanie Lloyd, Todd Meyers, Neely Myers, and Eugene Raikhel
Book Reviews (edited by Seth Messinger)
- Cristiana Giordano, Migrants in Translation; reviewed by Shirley Yeung
- Martin Jay & Sumathi Ramaswamy, Empires of Vision; reviewed by Lydia Pyne
- Élisabeth de Fontenay, Without Offending Humans; reviewed by Les Beldo
- Kristin Peterson, Speculative Markets; reviewed by Emilie Cloatre
- Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump; reviewed by Whitney Laemmli
- Duana Fullwiley, The Enculturated Gene; reviewed by John Hartigan
- Aslihan Sanal, New Organs Within Us; reviewed by Elizabeth DeLuca
- Joseph Dumit, Drugs for Life; reviewed by Kristin Peterson
- Jonathan Crary, 24/7; reviewed by Matthew Wolf-Meyer
- Alexander Etkind, Warped Mourning; reviewed by Olga Shevchenko
- Deborah Weinstein, The Pathological Family; reviewed by Amanda Rosso Buckton
- Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, Arthur Kleinman, and Matthew Basilico, Reimagining Global Health; reviewed by Piyush Pushkar
- Julie Livingston, Improvising Medicine; reviewed by Marissa Mika
- Vincent Descombes, The Institutions of Meaning; reviewed by Leo Coleman
- Stefan Sperling, Reasons of Conscience; reviewed by Nathan Emmerich
- Lisa Gitelman, Paper Knowledge and Ben Kafka, The Demon of Writing; reviewed by Alexander von Lünen
- Ilana Löwy, Preventive Strikes; reviewed by Eric Boyle
- Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Linda Whiteford, and Paul Farmer, Global Health in Times of Violence; reviewed by Rachel Irwin
- Lesley A. Sharp, The Transplant Imaginary; reviewed by Emily Avera
- Terrence Deacon, Incomplete Nature; reviewed by Mads Solberg
- Mary K. DeShazer, Mammographies; reviewed by Cinzia Greco
- Anne Allison, Precarious Japan; reviewed by Kathryn Goldfarb
- Michelle Murphy, Seizing the Means of Reproduction; reviewed by Margaret E. MacDonald
- Peter Redfield, Life in Crisis; reviewed by Hanna Kienzler
- Cecilia Van Hollen, Birth in the Age of AIDS; reviewed by Lily Shapiro
- David Sepkoski and Michael Ruse, The Paleobiological Revolution; reviewed by Lydia Pyne
- Eirik Saethre, Illness is a Weapon; reviewed by Shir Lerman
- Christopher Doyle, Healing Secular Life; reviewed by Madeleine Reeves
- Osagie Obasogie, Blinded by Sight; reviewed by Eram Alam
- Stefan Ecks, Eating Drugs; reviewed by Erica Rockhold
- Elizabeth Roberts, God’s Laboratory; reviewed by Amy Cooper
- Christian Suhr and Rane Willerslev, Transcultural Montage, reviewed by Maria Vivod
- Erin Finley’s Fields of Combat; reviewed by Nicola Bulled
- Claire Laurier Decoteau, Ancestors and Antiretrovirals; reviewed by Casey Golomski
- Etienne Balibar, Identity and Difference; reviewed by Brandy Schillace
- Cheryl Mattingly, The Paradox of Hope; reviewed by Abby Forster
- Nathan Emmerich, Medical Ethics Education; reviewed by Jonathon Tomlinson
- Catherine Bliss, Race Decoded; reviewed by James Battle
- Kenneth MacLeish, Making War at Fort Hood reviewed by Ari Gandsman
Foreign Correspondents (edited by Stephanie Lloyd)
- Daniel Defert, Une vie politique (A Political Life); reviewed by Gabriel Girard
- Johan Asplund, The Elementary Forms of Social Life; reviewed by Lika Rodin
- Miguel Kottow, El Pa[de]ciente; reviewed by Sebastián Medina Gay and Jana Stojanova
- Juan Pablo Zabala, Chagas disease in Argentina; reviewed by Gabriela Bortz
- Anne M. Lovell (ed.) Face aux désastres; reviewed by Annette Liebing
Book notes and commentaries
- The Clinic (Inside Out): and (a series of) Elsewhere(s) by Anthony Stavrianakis, commenting on Todd Meyers’ The Clinic and Elsewhere
- Beyond Chronicity and Culpability by Lilia Kilburn, commenting on Angela Garcia’s The Pastoral Clinic
- Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis, Demands of the Day
Book Forums
- Book forum on: Jeremy Greene, Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine: (Edited by Todd Meyers)
- Generic virtue and vice, by Anne Pollock
- Nostalgia is always about the present, by Nancy Campbell
- The Generic that is Right for You, by Joseph Dumit
- Generics and their Doppelgängers, by Stefan Ecks
- the specificity of Generic, by Jeremy Greene
- Book forum on: Sameena Mulla, The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention; (Edited by Todd Meyers)
- An Awkward Relationship: The Case of Feminism and Nursing, by Christine Labuski
- Critical Care, by Julie Livingston
- The Violence of Reductionism, by Gethin Rees
- Care confounded: the ethnography of intervention into violence, by Sameena Mulla
Top of the Heap (compiled by Maria Cecilia Dedios and Ekaterina Anderson)
- Warwick Anderson on “treating the sick continent”—thoughts on Ebola and global health
- Sarah Willen on engaging with the concept of “dignity” anthropologically
- Elizabeth Watkins on pharmaceuticals and health science
- Helen Keane on fiction about addiction, drugs, and alcohol
- Ken MacLeish on war (and post-war) memoir, fiction, and ethnography
- Sherine Handy on the new field of “graphic medicine”
- Cheryl Mattingly on the “anthropology of morality”
- Martyn Pickersgill on humanitarianism, pharmaceuticals, dementia, and expertise
- Paul Rabinow and Joshua Craze with a wide set of recommendations spanning music, humanitarianism, witnessing, and photography
- Angela Garcia with a diverse set of recommendations
Teaching Resources
- Intimate, Familiar and Strange, or Why I Don’t Teach a Class on Sleep by Matthew Wolf-Meyer
- Teaching ‘Mental Disorder’ by Nichola Khan
- Anthropology of the Dead Body: The Corpse in Theory, Action, and Literature by Rachel Ceasar
Climate Change and Health (edited Melanie Boeckmann)
- Climate Change and Planetary Health by Merrill Singer
- Climate change and health by Melanie Boeckmann
Conference Reports
- Persistent pathogen: A conference report of anthropological research on tuberculosis by Emilio Dirlikov
- Conference Synopsis: The end of biodetermism? New directions for medical anthropology by Samuel Taylor-Alexander
- “Addressing Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities”: A Conference Report by Elizabeth Lewis
- “Health Humanities: Building the Future of Research and Teaching” – A Conference Report by Jillian Linster
- Informality as an analytical category in research on healthcare by Maryna Bazylevych
- Ontology as an analytical approach to concerns of medical anthropology by Tanja Ahlin
- Diagnostics for Development by Alice Street, Emma Michelle Taylor, James Smith, and Ian Harper
- Putting Science in its Place by Mackenzie Cramblit, Yidong Gong, and Jay Hammond
- TB/HIV: Distinct Histories, Entangled Futures. Towards an Epistemology of Co-infection by Lukas Engelmann and Janina Kehr
- A Home for Science: the Anthropology of Tropical and Arctic Field-Stations by Wenzel Geissler, Ann Kelly, John Manton, and Noémi Tousignant
Web Roundups (edited by Melanie Boeckmann)
- Disaster! by Melanie Boeckmann
- What Are You Afraid Of? by Emily Goldsher-Diamond
- Death and Technology by Lily Shapiro
- Organ Transfer in Open Spaces by Emily Goldsher-Diamond
- Dear Patient, tell me a story by Silvia Rossi
- Accidents and myths by Lily Shapiro
- The Body and Big Data by Emily Goldsher-Diamond
- The Gut Microbiome and our Bacterial Selves by Sara Bergstresser
- Sports? What Sports? A web roundup on Sochi 2014 by Eugene Raikhel
- Beginnings by Melanie Boeckmann
In the Journals (edited by Aaron Seaman)
- December, Part 1 by Elizabeth Lewis
- November, Part 2 by Jessica Cooper
- November, Part 1 by Thurka Sangaramoorthy
- October, Part 2 by Serena Stein
- October, Part 1 by Francis Mckay
- September, Part 2 by Melanie Boeckmann
- September, Part 1 by Anna Zogas
- August by Jessica Cooper
- July by Jason Alley
- June by Aaron Seaman
- May, Part 2 by Sultana Banulescu
- May, Part 1 by Francis Mckay
- April, Part 2 by Melanie Boeckmann
- April, Part 1 by Anna Zogas
- March, Part 2 by Aaron Seaman
- March, Part 1 by Elizabeth Lewis
- February by Aaron Seaman
- January by Aaron Seaman
Special issue announcements
- Global Mental Health – Two Special Journal Issues by Aaron Seaman
- The Lancet Commission on Culture and Health by Todd Meyers
- Globalising Mental Health or Pathologising the Global South? Mapping the Ethics, Theory and Practice of Global Mental Health – A special issue of Disability and the Global South by Aaron Seaman
- Anthropology Goes Public in the VA – A special issue of the Annals of Anthropological Practice by Aaron Seaman
- New Modes of Understanding and Acting on Human Difference in Autism Research, Advocacy, and Care – A special issue of BioSocieties by Aaron Seaman
- History of Psychiatric Epidemiology – An International Journal of Epidemiology supplement by Aaron Seaman
- Science, Technology, Medicine – and the State: The Science-State Nexus in Scandinavia, 1850–1980 – A special issue of Science in Context by Aaron Seaman
- Epidemic Events and Processes – A special section of Cambridge Anthropology by Aaron Seaman
- Growing Disability Studies – A Special Issue of Disability Studies Quarterly by Elizabeth Lewis
- Humanness and Modern Psychotropy – A special issue of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry by Aaron Seaman
- Special issue of Clio’s Psyche on “Psychoanalytic Anthropology” by Aaron Denham
- Open Access – A Special Half-Issue of Cultural Anthropology by Aaron Seaman
- Technologies of Belonging – A Special Issue of Science, Technology, & Human Values by Aaron Seaman
- Historical Trauma: a special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry by Eugene Raikhel
- The Politics and Anti-Politics of Infectious Diseases Control – A Special Issue of Medical Anthropology by Aaron Seaman
- Psychiatrised Children and their Rights: Global Perspectives – A Special Issue of Children & Society by Aaron Seaman
- Aging, Sex, and Well-Being in Brazil – A Special Issue of Aging & Anthropology Quarterly by Aaron Seaman
- The Conceptual and the Empirical: Expanding STS – A Special Issue of Science, Technology, & Human Values by Aaron Seaman
- HIV Scale-Up and the Politics of Global Health – A Special Issue of Global Public Health by Aaron Seaman
- Social Theory after Strathern – A Special Issue of Theory, Culture & Society by Aaron Seaman
- Critical Perspectives on Multispecies Ethnography – A Special Issue of Critique of Anthropology by Aaron Seaman
- From Health Behaviours to Health Practices: Critical Perspectives – A Special Issue of Sociology of Health & Illness by Aaron Seaman
- Risk, Pregnancy and Childbirth – A Special Issue of Health, Risk & Society by Aaron Seaman
- Structural Stigma and Population Health – A special issue of Social Science and Medicine by Aaron Seaman
- Naturecultures: Science, Affect and the Non-human – A special section of Theory, Culture & Society by Aaron Seaman
- STS and Disability – A special section of Science, Technology, & Human Values by Aaron Seaman
- Turning Therapies: Placing Medical Diversity – A special issue of Medical Anthropology by Aaron Seaman
Image: John T. McCutcheon, 1904.