Podcast with Cecilia Van Hollen, Professor at Georgetown University, in discussion with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). This next episode of the podcast takes us to South India. Cecilia Van Hollen narrates the personal and intellectual journey behind her latest book, Cancer and the Kali Yuga: Gender, Inequality, and Health in South India […]
Somatosphere welcomes you to the second part of our October edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal The Art of State-Societal Reconfiguration in a Time of Pandemic Crisis: A Health System Resilience […]
Podcast with Clémence Schantz, sociologist and midwife, Research Fellow at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) – Ceped UMR 196, in discussion with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King’s College, London. In this episode we speak with Clémence Schantz, midwife and sociologist, about her research with women diagnosed with breast cancer in Mali. […]
Podcast with Nickolas Surawy Stepney, Research Associate, King’s College London, in discussion with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King’s College, London. This episode takes us to northern India to unpack the complex politics of morphine care for cancer patients. Nickolas shares with us stories from his doctoral work in India in hospitals where morphine stocking […]
With recent emphasis on “cancer epidemics” in Asia and Africa (Banerjee 2020; Travis 2007; Lingwood et al. 2008) it has become increasingly clear that cancer is not only a problem of the wealthy or the global north but a matter of global concern. In the past decade, there has been a particularly significant expansion in […]
Somatosphere welcomes you to the first part of our October edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. Critical Public Health One health governance of antimicrobial resistance seen through an Urban Political Ecology lens: a critical interpretive synthesis Raphael Aguiar, Roger Keil, […]
Welcome to the second part of our second round of “In the Journals” for September. Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry The Clinical Evolutions of Surveillance and Violence During Three Contemporary US Crises: Opioid Overdose, COVID-19, and Racial Reckoning Kelly Ray […]
