The Role of US Policymaking in the Emergence of a Digital Health Assemblage
Elisa Lievevrouw, L. Marelli, and I. Van Hoyweghen
…Promising to improve the quality of care while decreasing healthcare costs, digital health technologies (DHT) are welcomed as a solution to the challenges increasingly faced by healthcare systems in the global north. In recent years, tech
Representing suicide: Giving voice to a desire to die?
Ian Marsh, Rachel Winter, Lisa Marzano
Drawing on interview and online ethnographic data from a study of suicide on the railways, this paper describes the ways in which many of the concepts, assumptions and practices of mainstream
Here is a selection of articles published in February. Enjoy!
Cultural Anthropology (Open Access)
Vital Labors: Transacting Oocytes across Borders in the Post-Soviet Space (open access)
Madeleine Reeves
…Anthropological accounts of labor mobility in the post-Soviet region have tended to focus on the commoditization, securitization, and illegalization of migrant wage labor, rather than on the generation of surplus through the
It is important to consider how identity, culture, and social adversity influence maternal mental health among Latina women both because this community faces unique cultural stressors and also because factors that undermine women’s mental health…
Before compassion: sympathy, tact and the history of the ideal nurse (open access)
Sarah Chaney
The word ‘compassion’ is ubiquitous in modern healthcare. Yet few writers agree on what the term means, and what makes it an essential trait in nursing. In this article, I take a historical approach to the problem of understanding compassion. Although many modern …
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Ruth Müller and Martha Kenney
…The biology of early life adversity explores how social experiences early in life affect physical and psychological health and well-being throughout the life course. In our previous