Somatosphere is seeking an editor or small editorial group to begin a 5-year term on September 1, 2022. Applicants should be active researchers in medical anthropology or a neighboring discipline in the social sciences or humanities of health and medicine. Prior editorial experience is highly desirable, as is some familiarity with digital communications and publication platforms. Applicants should have a …
Author Archives: Eugene Raikhel
Medical anthropology weekly: COVID-19 – Issue 3
This article is part of the series: Medical anthropology weekly: COVID-19
May 13 -19, 2020
“Medical anthropology weekly: COVID-19” is a weekly compilation of COVID-19-related materials across text, audio, and video formats focused on medical anthropology and neighboring disciplines. The project is a collaboration between Society for Medical Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and Somatosphere. Each is cross-posted on all three websites and distributed over multiple channels.
If you’d …
Medical anthropology weekly: COVID-19 – Issue 2
This article is part of the series: Medical anthropology weekly: COVID-19
May 5 -12, 2020
“Medical anthropology weekly: COVID-19” is a weekly compilation of COVID-19-related materials across text, audio, and video formats focused on medical anthropology and neighboring disciplines. The project is a collaboration between Society for Medical Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and Somatosphere. Each is cross-posted on all three websites and distributed over multiple channels.
For this …
Medical anthropology weekly: COVID-19 – Issue 1
This article is part of the series: Medical anthropology weekly: COVID-19
Mid-April – May 4, 2020
In an effort to highlight the vital perspectives of medical anthropology and neighboring disciplines, as well as to help manage the volume of material being published online, the Society for Medical Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and Somatosphere are collaborating to publish a weekly compilation of COVID-19-related materials across text, audio, and video …
Book Forum: Tomas Matza’s Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia
This article is part of the series: Book forum
In Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia (Duke University Press, 2018), Tomas Matza traces the landscape of “psy” disciplines, practices, and institutions across postsocialist Saint Petersburg. Writing with a distinctive conceptual subtlety and care, Matza pushes beyond a range of well-established interpretations to examine the multiple ways in which psychotherapy has provided tools for people to understand …
Announcement: new Managing Editor and members of Editorial Collaborative!
There are a few exciting additions to the Somatosphere masthead that I’d like to announce. (Please note that we are working to fix up the masthead itself, and that a version with proper bios will return shortly!)
One important piece of news if that the site finally has a Managing Editor again. Talia Gordon, who has been contributing to …