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 …
This post was contributed by Seth Messinger (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
In March 2004, after being hired by UMBC, I attended a meeting at Walter Reed Army Medical Center with a colleague from my new department and several military and civilian clinicians. There we discussed the specific and the vague challenges that faced the increasing number of US military …
The latest Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry is a special issue on “Trauma and Idioms of Distress,” co-edited by Devon E. Hinton and Roberto Lewis-Fernández, who write that the issue “focuses on the role played by idioms of distress in the local trauma ontology, the associations between the idioms and psychiatric disorders occurring in the context of trauma …
The June issue of Current Anthropology includes includes an article by Princeton’s João Biehl and Peter Locke (who has written for Somatosphere in the past): “Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming.” One of the wonderful things about CA articles is the commentaries genre — and this particular piece includes comments by Michael M.J. Fischer, Vanessa Fong, Angela Garcia, …
The World Health Organization has recently made available a literature review on “Culture and mental health in Haiti” on the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Network. The review was commissioned by the WHO to provide some background information for non-Haitians “working on mental health and psychosocial support after the earthquake,” and was written by a team assembled …
Ethan Watters, whose recent article in the New York Times Magazine was discussed at length here and at Neuroanthropology, has a new piece on the globalization of US mental illness diagnoses. This one appears in New Scientist and focuses on a couple of themes not addressed by the Times Magazine article: namely, the transformation of psychiatric ideas about depression …