Rounding out September’s In the Journals compilation, here are several more articles of interest. See also these Special Issues on “Island Imaginaries” and “Beyond the Production of Ignorance” and more in a separate post by Eliza Williamson. Enjoy!
Learning How Not to Know: Pragmatism, (In)expertise, and the Training of American Helping Professionals
E. Summerson Carr
…Motivational interviewing
Here are some new articles published in February 2021. These are in addition to the special issue of Critical Public Health, “Beyond Biological Citizenship,” already highlighted for us by Emmanuelle Roth. Enjoy!
Medical disposals and problem solving: About high blood pressure in Morocco
Josiane Carine Tantchou
…In this article, I analyze how in basic health-care
Here’s the first part of November’s round-up of new journal articles that may be of interest. Enjoy!
Science, Technology and Human Values
Borderlands of Life: IVF Embryos and the Law in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany (open access)
Sheila Jasanoff, Ingrid Metzler
…Human embryos produced in labs since the 1970s have generated layers of uncertainty for law and
Here are some of the articles published in February. Enjoy!
Cultural Anthropology (Open Access)
Gestures of Care and Recognition: An Introduction
Lauren Cubellis
…This collection of essays offers an exploration of care as a gesture of recognition. As both object of inquiry and ethnographic representation, care is examined as the work of discerning and representing traces. The introduction and subsequent
The 2018 Wenner-Gren Symposium was “Disability Worlds,” and the papers are now available as a Current Anthropology supplement, open-access to all! Here is a PDF of the entire collection, and the abstracts are below.
Disability Worlds: Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 21
Danilyn Rutherford
…[excerpt] From March 9 to 15, 2018, at the Hacienda del Sol Guest Ranch in Tucson, Arizona, the
Here’s our monthly digest of new journal articles! A special issue of Medical Anthropology on “Aging, Chronicity, and Negotiations of Care” is among the highlights. Happy reading!
Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
Neurodegeneration and the Intersubjectivities of Care (open access)
Narelle Warren & Dikaios Sakellariou
…Caring for a family member or friend with a serious