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!
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Bodies in Formation: An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education
Duke University Press, 2012
312 pp., US$24.95 paperback
The relationship between medicine and technology is long well established; indeed, the interconnectedness of the two worlds has shaped scientific knowledge and practice for centuries. Particularly in the realm of surgery, the inextricability of technology from medical practice …
The Accompaniment: Assembling the Contemporary
by Paul Rabinow
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011
248 pp, US$21.00 paperback
From the start, I should note that I have never particularly liked the genre of the book review. They always read like the experience of going to a museum and listening to one of those guided audio tours—complete with headsets and portable …
This is the second part to what Lara Braff posted last Thursday (linked here). So without further ado…
Biosocieties has a range of articles this month, revolving around issues of citizenship, biologized or no; medical imaging and technological futures; and discursive positionality in both mass messaging and intimate interactions. In addition, there are a range of reviews of …
In the context of a growing emphasis on biomedical approaches to HIV prevention, we are seeking contributions to a new series that aims to examine the increasing biomedicalisation of HIV prevention. We are particularly interested to include contributions on the role of social research in relation to the impacts and effectiveness of implementation of biomedical technologies. As Treatment as Prevention …
You can find Part One of this month’s In the Journals… feature here.
This month’s Science, Technology, & Human Values focuses on “Experiments in Context and Contexting“. Tiago Moreira argues that singularities in social science research are woven into political orders in two related ways: through an unraveling of sociotechnical ties and through the uniqueness of persons …