The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences has a new issue out this month with four new articles and an essay review:
Transforming Sexuality: The Medical Sources of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825–95) and the Origins of the Theory of Bisexuality –
Ross BrooksRevisiting Black Medical School Extinctions in the Flexner Era –
Lynn E. Miller and…
The April issue of Transcultural Psychiatry is a special issue that grows out of an event held in April 2010 at the McGill Advanced Study Institute in Cultural Psychiatry, entitled “Rethinking Cultural Competence from International Perspectives.” As editor Laurence J. Kirmayer writes in the introduction:
Despite…attention to culture, models of mental health services, guidelines for clinical practice, and therapeutic interventions
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Science, Technology and Medicine Interest Group
Society for Medical Anthropology
AAA 2012 Call for Papers — Seeking additional panelists
Panel Organizers: Betsey Brada, Tazin Karim, Peter Locke, Aaron Seaman
Border Patrol: Technologies of Moral Bureaucracy and Immobility
We seek one or two additional scholars to participate in a panel focused around ethnographic and theoretical inquiries into the construction of …
The December 2011 issue of Ethos is a special issue, entitled “Psychological Anthropology and Adolescent Well-Being: Steps toward Bridging Research, Policy, and Practice.” Building upon recent interest in policy- and practice-based collaboration among the psychological anthropology community, the issue enacts such collaboration by pairing original research articles with commentary by policy experts and practitioners. As the editors, Eileen …
The October 2011 issue of History of the Human Sciences is a special issue entitled “Foucault Across the Disciplines.” The eight articles which compose the issue, along with guest editor Colin Koopman’s introduction,
“demonstrate the enormous gain in critical potential that can be realized by taking up Foucault’s own posture as a cross-disciplinary or counter-disciplinary thinker. One of the signal
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The September 2011 issue of the journal Science, Technology, & Human Values, is a special issue entitled “Investigating Emerging Biomedical Practices.” Situating the articles that compose the issue “within [an] intellectual tradition rooted in the borderlands of anthropology, science studies, and the history of science–altogether heavily influenced by feminism,” Kontopodis, Niewöhner, and Beck write in their introduction that the…