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Un/Diagnosed: Family Experience of Genomic Diagnoses and the Re-Making of (Rare) Disease in the UK. 未诊断:英国基因组诊断和(罕见)疾病再造的家庭经验》。
IF 1.5 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-10-02 Epub Date: 2024-11-11 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2420117
Alessia Costa
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Not-Quite-Dead: Ontological Careographies and the Ambiguous Fetal Body in the Context of Disability-Selective Pregnancy Termination in Austria. Not-Quite-Dead: Ontological Careographies and the Ambiguous Fetal Body in the Context of Disability-Selective Pregnancy Termination in Austria.
IF 1.5 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-10-02 Epub Date: 2024-11-11 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2410249
Veronika Siegl
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Healing with Ayahuasca the Plant Teacher: Psychedelic Metaphoricity and Polyontologies. 用植物老师死藤水治疗:迷幻隐喻和多本体论。
IF 1.5 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-10-02 Epub Date: 2024-10-07 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2410969
Alex K Gearin
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Framing the Labor of Paid Egg Donors in Iran: Marginality, Gendered Care, and Divine Reward. 伊朗有偿捐卵者的劳动框架:边缘化、性别关怀和天赐奖赏》(Marginality, Gendered Care, and Divine Reward.
IF 2.3 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-09-10 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2395291
Tiba Bonyad
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In/Visible - A Photographic Journey Into the Lives of Egg Donors in Spain. In/Visible - 西班牙捐卵者生活摄影之旅。
IF 1.5 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-09-03 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2384734
Laura Perler, Tamara Sánchez Pérez
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Controlling the Diabetic Body? Managing Chronic Illness with Wearable Technology. 控制糖尿病患者的身体?利用可穿戴技术管理慢性疾病。
IF 1.5 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Epub Date: 2024-07-29 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2384749
Lisa Engström
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"The Best I Could": Future Orientations for Danish Women with Gestational Diabetes. "尽我所能":丹麦妊娠糖尿病妇女的未来方向。
IF 1.5 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Epub Date: 2024-08-05 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2384726
Anna Brueckner Johansen, Laura Emdal Navne
{"title":"\"The Best I Could\": Future Orientations for Danish Women with Gestational Diabetes.","authors":"Anna Brueckner Johansen, Laura Emdal Navne","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2384726","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2384726","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The introduction of personalized medicine marks a shift in pregnancy-related screening, from fetal to maternal health risks putting the pregnant woman's future orientations center stage. Drawing on fieldwork from pregnancy outpatient clinics and 11 interviews with pregnant women diagnosed with gestational diabetes and offered genetic testing, we use their experiences of time to explore how futurity is reshaped by notions of early detection and at-riskness. We offer the concept of \"future prism\" to capture how multiple situations of orienting toward the future shape and circumscribe one's experience of the future - an orientation that makes genetic testing almost impossible to refuse.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"509-521"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141890419","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}
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Vulnerable Lives, Irrelevant Deaths? Dying Alone and Receiving Flawed Care in an Institution for the Aged in Lima, Peru. 脆弱的生命,无关紧要的死亡?在秘鲁利马的一家养老院中孤独终老并接受有缺陷的护理。
IF 1.5 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Epub Date: 2024-08-15 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2388201
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
{"title":"Vulnerable Lives, Irrelevant Deaths? Dying Alone and Receiving Flawed Care in an Institution for the Aged in Lima, Peru.","authors":"Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2388201","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2388201","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This ethnographic exploration of death in the Peruvian context draws on fieldwork among abandoned-both by their families and the state-older adults in a shelter for the homeless in Lima, Peru. I examine the conditions and local forces that shape the ways people at this institution socially and physically die. My argument is that people in this long-term care facility who have lived entire lives on the margins, usually, end up having irrelevant deaths to their families, other residents of the institution, and the Peruvian state. At this shelter, dying in an irrelevant way means dying without companionship from family members and receiving poor and flawed care from the institution that shelters them.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"482-494"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141984298","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}
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Ethical and Epistemological Implications of Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork as a Researcher-cum-Clinician in Brussels, Belgium. 在比利时布鲁塞尔以研究员兼临床医生的身份开展人种学田野调查的伦理和认识论影响。
IF 1.5 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Epub Date: 2024-08-07 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2386583
Dirk Lafaut, Lisa Dikomitis
{"title":"Ethical and Epistemological Implications of Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork as a Researcher-cum-Clinician in Brussels, Belgium.","authors":"Dirk Lafaut, Lisa Dikomitis","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2386583","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2386583","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We draw on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Brussels (Belgium) on the health care experiences of undocumented migrants. We explore the implications of the double position of the ethnographer, who is both a researcher and a practicing doctor. We describe how the intimate knowledge the ethnographer-cum-clinician holds about the health care system influenced and shaped the data collection, analysis and subsequent policy recommendations. We examine the ethical dilemmas in conducting research from an engaged position about care practices toward vulnerable populations in one's own professional field. We conclude with recommendations on how to challenge and interrupt complexities faced by multi-positioned ethnographers.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"538-552"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141903203","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}
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Sitting in Wait: Everyday Caregiving Practices for People with Dementia in Rural South Africa. 坐等:南非农村地区痴呆症患者的日常护理实践》(Sitting in Wait: Everyday Caregiving Practices for People with Dementia in Rural South Africa)。
IF 1.5 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Epub Date: 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2395285
Michelle R Brear, Themby Nkovana, Lenore Manderson
{"title":"Sitting in Wait: Everyday Caregiving Practices for People with Dementia in Rural South Africa.","authors":"Michelle R Brear, Themby Nkovana, Lenore Manderson","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2395285","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2395285","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Practice theories offer potential to reveal, understand, and attribute value to the everyday thoughts and actions of dementia caregivers. Drawing on ethnographic data from research in rural South Africa, on everyday dementia care practices, we highlight the profound importance of mundane practices - especially \"sitting in wait\" - for optimizing wellbeing of people with dementia who are cared for at home. We draw attention to the structural drivers of homebased (informal) care, which is underpinned by state inaction. This situates the act of sitting in wait as both an act of care and an embodied form of structural powerlessness.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":"43 6","pages":"469-481"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142141411","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}
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