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 …
Category Archives: In the Journals
In the Journals…April 2012
The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences has a new issue out this month with four new articles and an essay review:
Transforming Sexuality: The Medical Sources of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825–95) and the Origins of the Theory of Bisexuality –
Ross BrooksRevisiting Black Medical School Extinctions in the Flexner Era –
Lynn E. Miller and…
Special Issue: Transcultural Psychiatry, “Rethinking Cultural Competence”
The April issue of Transcultural Psychiatry is a special issue that grows out of an event held in April 2010 at the McGill Advanced Study Institute in Cultural Psychiatry, entitled “Rethinking Cultural Competence from International Perspectives.” As editor Laurence J. Kirmayer writes in the introduction:
Despite…attention to culture, models of mental health services, guidelines for clinical practice, and therapeutic interventions
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In the Journals on Transcriptions
In the Journals will provide a summary and links to journal articles published in the last month that have a bearing on global health and HIV. We’ll be collecting and aggregating articles and collections from several different disciplines in order to cut down some of the disciplinary divides that keep good insights from cross-pollinating, and to bring concepts and issues …
In the journals… March 2012 round up (2/2)
This month in Sociology of Health & Illness there is an interesting article on wheelchair users in residential care. This study addresses the role that wheelchairs, as potential enablers and barriers to mobility and participation, play in the lives of residents. To better understand residents’ experiences, an ethnographic study was conducted drawing on Bourdieu’s theoretical constructs of capital, field, …
In the Journals… March 2012 round up (1/2)
Spring is only slowly arriving here in our parts of Europe, but it is March nonetheless. This month offered fewer new journal issues than was the case in previous years.
BioSocieties has recently started publishing open access articles. The latest of these is Hannah Landecker’s Food as exposure: Nutritional epigenetics and the new metabolism. In her article, Landecker discusses …