Tag Archives: Clinical ethnography

In the Journals

Special Journal Issue: Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry — Anthropologies of Clinical Training in the 21st Century

By Aaron Seaman
The June 2011 issue of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry is a special issue entitled, “Anthropologies of Clinical Training in the 21st Century.” Seth M. Holmes, Angela C. Jenks, and Scott Stonington, in their opening words, introduce the central question with which the issue’s articles grapple:

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, medical anthropologists increasingly turned their attention to the examination

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In the Journals

Special Journal Issue: Medical Anthropology Quarterly — After Progress: Time and Improbable Futures in Clinic Spaces

By Aaron Seaman
Within its current issue (June 2011), Medical Anthropology Quarterlyhas a special section entitled, “After Progress: Time and Improbable Futures in Clinic Spaces.”S. Lochlann Jain and Sharon R. Kaufman write in their introduction to the section:

One contemporary goal for ethnographers is to describe features of that complex relationship in different realms of health care delivery—perhaps especially those arenas undergoing

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Books

Reintroducing “Foreign Correspondents”

By Stephanie Lloyd
This article is part of the series:

We’re very pleased to reintroduce the “Foreign Correspondents” section of Somatosphere. The aim of the section is to provide contributors and readers of Somatosphere with a forum for recent, important works that appear in languages other than English – as well as announcements about conferences, journal issues, and other related projects. We proudly present the section’s first installment, a review …

Features

Exotic guinea pigs at home: An ethnography of professional research subjects in the US

By Roberto Abadie

This post was contributed by Roberto Abadie (CUNY)

A few years ago anthropologist Michaela di Leonardo invited anthropologists to focus on what she called “exotics at home”. Her intention was to re-center anthropological inquiry, shifting the discipline’s emphasis on “the other”, often living in remote cultures, to groups living among us, right at home.  Di Leonardo reminded us …

In the Journals

Towards an era of bureaucratically controlled medical compliance?

By Eugene Raikhel

The latest issue of Anthropology and Medicine is a superb special issue titled “Towards an era of bureaucratically controlled medical compliance?” and guest edited by Somatosphere contributors Kalman Applbaum and Michael Oldani.

Applbaum and Oldani emphasize in their introduction that while patient compliance and non-compliance has long been studied in epidemiology and health services research, it has increasingly …

Features

Ethnography and the somber realities of "intervention"

By Eugene Raikhel

In this weekend’s LA Times Angela Garcia reflects on the ubiquity of addiction and its attendant crisis in New Mexico’s Espanola Valley, where she conducted fieldwork for her recently released book The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande (University of California Press, 2010).  Garcia, a medical anthropologist at UC Irvine, notes that the Espanola Valley “has …