Medical AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-01-02Epub Date: 2025-01-24DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2453166
Inga Haaland, Karama Ogillo
{"title":"Social Iatrogenesis and Social Risks Among Queer PrEP Users in Dar Es Salaam.","authors":"Inga Haaland, Karama Ogillo","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2453166","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2453166","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pre-exposure prophylaxis, commonly known as PrEP, is an HIV-preventative pill taken to reduce the risk of contracting HIV. During a PrEP study in Dar es Salaam among queer PrEP users, this ethnographic study observed how PrEP users experienced novel types of (social) risks and harms, or social iatrogenesis, imposed by the biomedical HIV prevention pill or the PrEP program. These forms of social iatrogenesis related to lack of autonomy, creating demand for PrEP, then removing services, projectivization of PrEP programs, social risks related to fear of stigma by association, and clinical encounters producing multiple understandings of adherence and usage of PrEP.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"83-95"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143034557","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":"Research, HIV/AIDS, and Turning <i>Waria</i> into a Key Population in Indonesia: An Ethnographic Oral History.","authors":"Benjamin Hegarty, Ferdiansyah Thajib, Amalia Puri Handayani, Rully Mallay, Arum Marischa","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2425042","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2425042","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The history of HIV/AIDS is often told from the Global North, a viewpoint that is naturalized in policies and programs that privilege biomedical models of treatment and prevention. This article explores how one Indonesian transgender population known as <i>waria</i> became the subject of various forms of research since the 1980s. Research was one way that waria came to be classified as part of the key population of \"transgender people.\" Drawing on an oral history project conducted in 2021/2022, we show how - while necessarily hierarchical - ethnographic accounts of other HIV/AIDS histories can rethink fundamental global health concepts.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"69-82"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142649307","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}
Medical AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-01-02Epub Date: 2024-12-19DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2438034
Mara Buchbinder, Erika L Sabbath
{"title":"Reproductive Healthcare After <i>Dobbs</i>: Rethinking Obstetric Harm in the United States.","authors":"Mara Buchbinder, Erika L Sabbath","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2438034","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2438034","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The obstetric violence framework proposes that clinicians harm pregnant people through physical and psychological mistreatment and violations of autonomy. In this article, we analyze interviews with 54 obstetrician-gynecologists (OB-GYNs) practicing in US states with near-total abortion bans to show how similar harms may also be performed through actions of the state. Reframing obstetric harm to include the behind-the-scenes work of state legislators as a looming presence in the clinical encounter permits us to see OB-GYNs from a different vantage point, and to understand their role as experiencing - and not just perpetuating - obstetric harm.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"6-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142865833","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}
Medical AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-05-04DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2495633
Kim Sigmund
{"title":"Caring for Women of Color: Community-Based Doulas' Strategies in Hospital Birth in Los Angeles.","authors":"Kim Sigmund","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2495633","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2495633","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the United States, women of color experience worse pregnancy and birth outcomes than white women. Likewise, many women of color report facing discrimination from perinatal health providers, and many experience precarity that can negatively impact birth experiences and outcomes. In this context, more women of color now embrace the use of community-based doulas. Using ethnographic data, I argue that community-based doulas, as members of the communities in which they offer their services, are uniquely able to negotiate the tensions between their clients and biomedical birth practitioners to engender acts of transformative agency and forward the cause of reproductive justice.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"378-391"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12306672/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144024691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medical AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-12-02DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2592548
Adrienne E Strong, Samir K Shah
{"title":"Hidden Threats: Patient Decision-Making around Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Surgery in the United States.","authors":"Adrienne E Strong, Samir K Shah","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2592548","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2592548","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) are pathologic enlargements of the aorta that, if they rupture, are usually fatal. Patients can undergo high-risk surgery to prevent rupture. We explored AAA patients' surgical journeys to understand decision-making and unmet needs. Major interview themes included fear of death, risk perception, importance of partner support, communication with providers, and preparedness for surgery and recovery. The nature of AAAs as chronic conditions that can suddenly become acutely life-threatening lends a unique context to patient decision-making. Understanding patient perspectives and values when undergoing AAA repairs can improve surgeons' abilities to meet patient needs and facilitate shared decision-making.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"758-771"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145655910","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}
Medical AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-12-09DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2598642
Oyinkansola Ojo-Aromokudu, Sandra Mounier-Jack, Ben Kasstan-Dabush
{"title":"\"It's Their Little Red Bible\": Exploring Immigration and Immunization Journeys Through Nigerian Mother Relationships with Child Health Records in London.","authors":"Oyinkansola Ojo-Aromokudu, Sandra Mounier-Jack, Ben Kasstan-Dabush","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2598642","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2598642","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drawing on an ethnography of Nigerian migrant motherhood in London, we explore how the original design of children's health records, known as the Red Book, to log routine vaccinations has been transformed to document family proof of residency amidst Britain's \"hostile environment.\" Nigerian migrant mothers use the Red Book as evidence of raising British children and to overcome their precarity. By resolutely documenting their children's immunizations, Nigerian mothers pursue both biological and political immunity while on a simultaneous immunization and citizenship journey.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"742-757"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145716355","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}
Medical AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-09-20DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2563264
Desalegn Amsalu
{"title":"The Socialist Derg Regime and Violence Against Kumpal Ethnomedicine in Ethiopia (1970s-80s).","authors":"Desalegn Amsalu","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2563264","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2563264","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The relationship between African governments and ethnomedical practices is marked by policy dilemma and ideological conflicts. Through an ethnographic study spanning 2016-17 and employing \"violence\" as an analytical framework, this article shows how the socialist Derg regime in Ethiopia (1974-1991) devastated ethnomedicinal practice of ethnic Kumpal. The regime persecuted practitioners, accusing them of aiding insurgents with bulletproofing remedies, dismissing their beliefs as feudal remnants, and coercing the community to renounce traditions through oathing. The article presents an uncommon case study of brutal forms of violence by an African socialist regime targeting its own people over their ethnomedical practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"680-691"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145092792","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}
Medical AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-09-22DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2558836
Mark Nichter
{"title":"Public Understanding of Gut Health and the Human Microbiome in the USA: An Exploratory Study.","authors":"Mark Nichter","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2558836","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2558836","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>At a time of rising public interest in the human microbiome and calls for increased microbe literacy in public health, few studies have explored how different segments of the US public understand gut health. To address this gap, An exploratory ethnographic study was conducted in Southern Arizona. The study identified five themes that encompass Pasteurian militaristic and post-Pasteurian ecological perceptions of gut health, gut adaptability, and probiotic/antibiotic influence on\" natural immunity.\" Future microbe literacy programs will need to engage with local ideas about gut health, build upon points of convergence with bioscience, and identify points of divergence that challenge public health initiatives.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"605-619"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145114653","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}
Medical AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-06-08DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2504366
Jacquelyne Luce
{"title":"Diagnostic Moments in the Rare Disease Life Narratives of Mitochondrial Disease Patients in Germany.","authors":"Jacquelyne Luce","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2504366","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2504366","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>I draw on interviews I conducted in Germany with four individuals who were eventually diagnosed with mitochondrial disease, a category of rare neurogenetic disorders. Rather than the diagnosis of mitochondrial disease serving as a threshold between a before and after, I show how multiple ″diagnostic moments″ generate and shape mitochondrial disease life narratives as affected individuals embody emergent medical knowledge and navigate scientific unknowns. Attending to the plurality of diagnostic moments in rare disease life narratives illuminates the fragmented temporalities and incoherencies of illness experiences, which are often erased by an emphasis on a singular diagnostic moment.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"414-426"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144250288","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}
Medical AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-06-13DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2517580
Ida Nielsen Sølvhøj
{"title":"\"Is This Violence?\" Subtlety, Doubt, and the Struggle to Narrate Transgressive Behavior in Denmark.","authors":"Ida Nielsen Sølvhøj","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2517580","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2517580","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Based on multi-sited fieldwork in Denmark, I explore how Danish women and men negotiate their positions as potential victims of intimate partner violence: in particular, psychological violence. First, focusing on retrospective stories about everyday life, I argue that violence may be experienced as subtle and not necessarily noisy. Second, by turning my attention to public narratives about psychological violence, I demonstrate that they often fail to align with the interlocutors' stories. This, I suggest, can lead to transgressive behavior being interpreted as nonviolence. This article offers a detailed analysis of the subtle micro-mechanisms that underpin the first manifestations of violence.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"560-575"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144286828","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}