Organized by Sarah Willen and Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, the June issue of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry (vol. 37, issue 2) is a special issue entitled “Cultural Competence in Action: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Four Case Studies.”  Rather than engaging in the usual critique of medical “cultural competence” programs  (which aim to teach clinicians about culture, health disparities, and difference), this issue analyzes …

The October issue of Social Studies of Science 42(5) features several articles about health care and scientific research in such sites as the U.S., U.K., China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the Netherlands. Katie Ann Hasson’s article, “Making appropriate ‘stick’: Stabilizing politics in an ‘inherently feminist tool,’ examines the project and politics of medical appropriation among lay healthworkers at a …

Articles in this month’s issue of Cultural Anthropology concern the body, humanitarianism, and/or sovereignty (variously conceived) in the context of either religion or medicine. Brahinsky examines Pentecostal “body logics” and how “religiously inflected sensory aptitudes, or perhaps even mind-body relationships, emerge through a process of careful cultivation and nurturance” (217). Bernstein explores how Buddhist “body politics” among Buryats of Siberia …

Exploring the interrelationships of immigration, health, and health care, the articles in the October issue of Medical Anthropology focus on the experiences of immigrants in the U.S., Canada, Costa Rica, and Finland. Cartwright shows how long-term Latino residents who work in agriculture are “barely surviving in the U.S.,” and suffer ill health due to structural violence and a pathogenic immigration …