Concepts are the tools of our trade, enabling us to analytically capture a situation, bring new insights to it, and rethink the frame within which a problem has been articulated. For this reason, concepts may be considered to have a performative function, shaping not only what comes to be known but also the nature of intervention this knowledge generates. In …
Three announcements from the SMA’s Science, Technology and Medicine Interest Group in anticipation of the upcoming AAA meetings in Montreal:
(1) First, the coordinating committee would like to thank everyone who helped organize panels during the past year (2010-2011). We are looking forward to congratulating you in person at the AAAs. In case you cannot attend, however, we thank you …
The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS.
By Vinh-Kim Nguyen.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.
Pp. 256. ISBN 9780822348740. (Paperback, US $ 22.95)
Reviewed by Betsey Brada (Princeton University)
In The Republic of Therapy, Vinh-Kim Nguyen traces responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Francophone West Africa between 1994, when effective …
Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion during Botswana’s Time of AIDS. By Frederick Klaits. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010. Pp. 368. Paperback US$ 29.95 ISBN 9780520259669.
Review by Betsey Brada (University of Chicago)
Home to one of the world’s highest HIV prevalence rates, the southern African Republic of Botswana has drawn increasing attention over …
This announcement was sent along by Betsey Brada (University of Chicago):
An announcement from the Science, Technology and Medicine Interest Group of the SMA
(1) First, the coordinating committee would like to thank everyone who helped organize panels during the past year (2010-2009). We are looking forward to congratulating you in person at the AAAs, but in case you cannot …
Editor’s note: Drawing on feedback she received through the medical anthropology listserv, Betsey Brada (now a postdoc at Princeton University) put together this excellent reading list of the anthropological literature on American medical education. The bibliography includes works by medical anthropologists, social and cultural historians, as well as physician-writers like Atul Gawande and Jerome Groopman. A very useful resource for …