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Medical Anthropology Weekly: COVID-19

A weekly compilation of COVID-19-related materials across text, audio, and video formats.

Thinking with Dementia

Stories about time shifted, folded and shared, the extraordinary ordinary, and keeping separate and being a-part.

Toxicity, Waste, and Detritus in the Global South: Africa and Beyond

Short adventures into our planet’s toxic sensorium, by Africanists and some of their scholarly kin.‬

The Ethnographic Case

Telling Stories and Shaping Knowledge: Reflections on the tensions between the general and the particular.‬

Commonplaces

‪Itemizing the technological present: A series of short entries from scholars on the classical and contemporary sites in medicine and science.‬

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  • In the Journals, February 2021
  • Special Issue: “Beyond Biological Citizenship”
  • Chronic Experimentation
  • Chronic living: ethnographic explorations of daily lives swayed by (multiple) medical conditions
  • Africa, the Cutting Edge for Health Care: Lessons from The Continent for the U.S. during COVID-19
  • Disability Justice and Material Needs: Reflections on the Experiences of Autistic New Yorkers Living Under Covid-19

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  • Where Has SARS Gone? The Strange Case of the Disappearing Coronavirus
  • The Unconscious: Metaphor and Metonymy
  • Very, very mild: Covid-19 symptoms and illness classification
  • Seth Holmes' Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
  • COVID-19 Forum: Introduction
  • A reader’s guide to the “ontological turn” – Part 1
  • Varieties of Tulpa Experiences: Sentient Imaginary Friends, Embodied Joint Attention, and Hypnotic Sociality in a Wired World
  • A reader’s guide to the “ontological turn” – Part 4
  • Philippe Descola's Beyond Nature and Culture
  • Angela Garcia's The Pastoral Clinic
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