For Dear Life: Art, Medicine and Disability, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (MCASD), September 19, 2024 – February 2, 2025 So begins a numbered list under the heading “SHIPYARD WORKER’S HAND,” a section of Fred Lonidier’s The Health and Safety Game (Abbreviated) (1976/78). The list goes on to describe reconstructive surgery and a legal […]
Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs by Marcia C. Inhorn (NYU Press, 2023) Since 2012, when egg freezing by vitrification (flash-freezing) emerged from experimental trials and entered clinical practice in the United States, opinions on its use for non-medical reasons have been deeply divided. The dominant media portrayal of women […]
Somatosphere welcomes you to the second part of December edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry Entanglements of Technologies, Agency and Selfhood: Exploring the Complexity in Attitudes Toward Mental Health Chatbots Robert Meadows and Christine Hine Whilst […]
Nils Graber, postdoctoral fellow, History of Science Department at Humboldt University, Berlin, in conversation with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). In this episode, we delve into the scholarly journey of Nils Graber, where the ethnographic exploration of immunotherapy within the healthcare systems of Cuba and Switzerland reveals a narrative […]
Somatosphere welcomes you to the first part of December edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. American Anthropologist When decolonization is hijacked Alpa Shah This article asks how we should reconceptualize decolonization when it is hijacked by authoritarian/fascist forces. It focuses […]
Héloïse Pillayre, postdoctoral researcher, Sciences Po, Lyon, in conversation with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). In this episode, sociologist Héloïse Pillayre recounts her doctoral and postdoctoral journeys, beginning with her study of the controversies surrounding cancer as an occupational disease in France. She then delves into her more recent […]
