There were quite a number of interesting articles related to anthropology, science, and medicine in this month’s round up of journals including those from American Anthropologist, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, Science in Context, and Science, Technology, & Human Values. Happy reading!
…
The current issue of Feminism & Psychology is an open source special issue focusing on the long-promised, upcoming revision to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Entitled “DSM-5 and Beyond: A Critical Feminist Engagement with Psychodiagnosis,” the issue is guest edited by Jeanne Marecek and Nicola Gavey. As they write in their introduction:
The
…
This post is a follow-up to Jason Alley’s earlier article: “In the Journals… February (Part 1).”
A brief review of some of the most relevant periodicals situated at the intersection between medicine, medical humanities, and the social sciences – Social Science & Medicine, Psychosomatic Medicine, Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, and Transcultural Psychiatry, to name …
Keeping with the spirit of February, the shortest month on the calendar, here is the first part (short and sweet) of what is in the journals this month. In January, I directed readers to recent articles in American Ethnologist and Cultural Anthropology worth checking out. Click here for further details. This month Social Studies of Science and Social Theory …
Still writing 2012 on your checks and paperwork? For those of you already missing the year when we escaped another end of the world apocalypse, here is a retroactive look at some interesting journal articles published in the later half of 2012.
American Anthropologist offered up an interesting revisiting of the anthropology of the body informed by scholarly work in …
Happy New Year! As you know, traditional academic publishing lags months (I’ve even heard of years!) behind current events. Therefore, although I’d love to present you this month’s themes as “fresh starts”, “new beginnings” and similar tropes, I can instead only tell you: there’s lots to be read this January!
The Health January 2013 issue contains six articles, this …