Podcast with Marissa Mika, writer and editor, in conversation with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King’s College, London. In this episode we travel to Uganda to hear the riveting story of the Uganda Cancer Institute. Following the publication of her long-anticipated book, Africanizing Oncology, we talk to Marissa about the tumultuous, long and vibrant history […]
Somatosphere welcomes you to the seond part of our November edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. Critical Public Health Smellscape perceptions in hospital waiting areas: influential factors and semantic dimensions Chong Gao, Shanshan Zhang and Xialong Zhao Smell can have […]
Podcast with Caro Caduff, Professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London, in conversation with Shagufta Bhangu, Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London. While conducting research on the National Cancer Grid in India, Carlo Caduff, medical anthropologist and STS scholar, discusses how in […]
Podcast with Luiz Alves Araújo Neto, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of History of Science and Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Fiocruz, Brazil, in discussion with Shagufta Bhangu, Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London. In his historical research on cancer epidemiology in Brazil, Luiz Alves Araújo Neto draws attention […]
Somatosphere welcomes you to the first part of our November edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. American Anthropologist Toward an anthropology that cares: Lessons from the Academic Carework project Nikky Greer, Jill Fleuriet, Rebecca Galemba and Sallie Han Anthropologists’ cross-cultural […]
Podcast with Chen Ying, Lecturer, National University of Singapore, in discussion with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). In her ethnographic study among Qigong patient groups near Shanghai (China), Chen Ying describes the emergence of an activist movement whose objective is to cure cancer through the practice of Guo Lin […]
Having already spent a month in Armenia, I uttered the usual “Barev Dzez ” [“hello” in Armenian] with confidence as I entered the Yandex taxi car. This magic word acts as a dispeller against what can often become a tricky and intrusive conversation for a solo female traveller in a cab in Yerevan. Suppose the […]
