{"title":"Grappling with Overdose Death Through the Art of Divination: A Tribute to Mikey.","authors":"Jennifer Syvertsen","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2738542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2026.2738542","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This essay reads the overdose of \"Mikey\" through a death tarot card I created to honor his life. In doing so, I explore the possibility of using art to tell a broader story of community care and emotional healing. The death tarot card represents not only material death, but the potential for profound transformation. Mikey was a \"street dad\" to many living in an encampment whose early death is a tragedy, but whose life story reclaims community where people often see none. Can the intuitive process of creating art from ethnographic data offer medical anthropologists new analytical insights toward healing?</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149116624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Our Deaths--Your Shame.\" HIV Activism and the Rise of Autocratic Biopolitics in the Russian Federation.","authors":"Katerina Suverina","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2739491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2026.2739491","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines the emergence of radical HIV activism in the Russian Federation through the case of the Front AIDS movement and its confrontation with established health care politics. Drawing on interviews, media sources, and policy analysis, it shows how activists challenged the system based on selective access to treatment and the coercive regulation of people who use drugs. Through direct public action, they reframed HIV and the right to live as a political issue. However, these actions encountered an emerging autocratic biopolitics that absorbed the epidemic into a securitized framework while restricting the political agency of affected populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149065139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Suturing the Fragments: Topological Agency and the Making of Coherent Worlds in Chinese Family Care.","authors":"Xiaoyan Dong","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2738548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2026.2738548","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drawing on Li Shen's Memoir of Illness and Treatment as core ethnographic material, I develop a topological agency framework to examine how Chinese families integrate heterogeneous medical resources amid a fragmented health care landscape. I identify two core topological operations: temporal folding, which activates intergenerational embodied knowledge, and spatial stretching, which crosses hospital-home boundaries to build family-centered care. Grounded in Confucian family ethics of xiao (filial piety) and ci (parental kindness), I recenter the family as a collective agent, challenge the individual-centered paradigm, operationalize topological theory, and offer a localized perspective to inform global scholarship on medical pluralism.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149026418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Signifying Others: The Gaze Upon the Mishap and the Specter of Dementia.","authors":"Shvat Eilat","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2722645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2026.2722645","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Older people who suspect impending memory loss face an intensified gaze of others during moments of forgetfulness. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with individuals contemplating cognitive decline in Israel, I analyze how \"significant others\" can become \"signifying others.\" Through three ethnographic vignettes, I explore regimes of gaze around forgetful moments. Building on Goffman's dramaturgy and anthropological work on aging and cognitive change, I argue that dementia functions as a specter shaping everyday interactions through \"vernacular diagnosis,\" where informal assessments position momentary lapses within decline trajectories, prompting responses including protective laughter, strategic concealment, and orchestrating what can be known about oneself.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148876332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between the Gang and Rou: Embodied Experiences and Multiple Practices of Chinese Men with Infertility.","authors":"Haifeng Long, Fan Zhang, Shu Wei","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2709854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2026.2709854","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, we explore the transformation of masculinity among Chinese men throughout their infertility journey, focusing on the interplay of \"gang\" (hardness) and \"rou\" (softness) dimensions of masculinity. We documented the embodied experiences and diverse practices of Chinese men with infertility, revealing how cultural factors shape their masculinity. Our research indicates that the \"gang\" and \"rou\" aspects of masculinity in men with infertility are not mutually exclusive binaries but are interwoven and dynamically transformed within specific life contexts. This demonstrates the multifaceted possibilities and malleability of masculinity in the face of modern societal change and individual life experiences.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148680498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Naming Miscarried Fetuses: A Politics of Memory and Recognition Among Javanese Muslim Women.","authors":"Askuri, Erwin Rasyid, Dewi Rokhanawati","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2710902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2026.2710902","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How do women make miscarriage memorable when pregnancy loss is common yet weakly recognized? Drawing on interpretative phenomenological analysis of 24 interviews with Javanese Muslim women, this article examines how fetal naming and non-naming shape grief, personhood, and moral responsibility. Naming sustained remembrance through prayer, family narratives, and ultrasound images, while some women refused it when biomedical language framed loss as absence or bodily cleansing. These practices were shaped by access to care, household relations, religion, and bureaucratic recognition. The article argues that naming constitutes a politics of memory across biomedicine, kinship, religion, and the state.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148655010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jacinta Victoria S Muinde, Paul Wenzel Geissler, Ruth Jane Prince
{"title":"'Corona is Over': Temporalities and Material Afterlives of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Kenya.","authors":"Jacinta Victoria S Muinde, Paul Wenzel Geissler, Ruth Jane Prince","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2710415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2026.2710415","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>After what most Kenyans experienced as the \"end of Covid\" in 2021-22, material remains of anti-epidemic measures, biological traces such as long covid, and memories of deaths persisted. While infection itself left few visible material traces, paraphernalia of its control - masks, tests, handwashing stations, and routines - proved more durable, although often losing or changing their function and meaning. This paper examines Covid-19 residues in western Kenya, their state and use, the meanings people assign, and how they disappear or sediment among leftovers of other epidemics, shaping future pathways unpredictably. We reflect on the afterlives of epidemics in Kenya and elsewhere.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148649499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Veterinization: Extending Care and Control in More-Than-Human Health.","authors":"Kieran O'Mahony, Marianna Szczygielska, Ludek Broz","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2693940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2026.2693940","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This introduction develops veterinization as a framework for analyzing how veterinary knowledges extend across social and political life. Situating the concept in relation to medicalization and tracing the entangled histories of human and animal health sciences, it examines how veterinary authority and governance, data and standards, infrastructures, actors, and animal ontologies are reconfigured across diverse contexts. Veterinization unfolds as a relational and contingent process spanning domains including infectious disease management, animal welfare and care, and food safety. Veterinary expertise, while oriented to nonhuman life, are inherently biosocial, enacting forms of care and control with consequences well beyond animal health.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148425151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Survivors, Artists, and Healers: Collective Healings of Ecological and War-Related Wounds in the Colombian Amazon.","authors":"César Abadía-Barrero, Vanesa Giraldo-Gartner, Camilo Ruiz-Sánchez, Paola Gamboa-Alzate","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2696358","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2696358","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Through painting and embroidery, victims/survivors of the armed conflict in southwest Colombia, primarily women, linked their pains, wounds, and sorrows left by the war with their hopes for a beautiful/joyful future in which they can live, once again, surrounded by family, friends, plants, animals, and rivers. Both the artistic process and the final installation,<i>Casa Común</i>(i.e. Communal House), promoted some respite and healing that was felt individually and collectively. Such healing was possible thanks to the emotional labor that these women have done for years to support one another, both inside and outside of formal and institutionalized spaces.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148392070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trusting Slaughter: Live Poultry Markets and the Veterinization of Poultry Consumption in Singapore.","authors":"Lyle Fearnley, Jia Haw Loh","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2679586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2026.2679586","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 1992, Singapore banned live poultry markets (LPMs) How has this veterinary and public health policy transformed how Singaporeans qualify chickens as healthy food? Drawing on archival research and fieldwork with consumers, vendors and veterinary officials, we show that consumers lost knowledge and skills used to evaluate the safety and quality of poultry. In contrast with many anthropological studies of food safety regulation, the prohibition of LPMs did not inspire resistance or alternative food movements but led to the emergence of new forms of consumer trust in expert veterinary authority, poultry vendors, and supermarket brands.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148319690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}