{"title":"Veterinizing the Settler State: Biopolitics, Care, and Killing in Palestine-Israel.","authors":"Irus Braverman","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2674058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2026.2674058","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drawing on three multispecies cases in Palestine-Israel - the fallow deer, the griffon vulture, and the free-roaming dog - this article depicts veterinary governance as constitutive of the settler state. Specifically, the article identifies three interrelated but distinct technologies of veterinary power: biopolitics, enacted through population management and selective reproduction; pastoral power, exercised through intimate care and detailed surveillance; and necropolitics, manifested in practices of extermination. The article argues that veterinization advances and naturalizes the state's settler ecologies. In Palestine-Israel, this dynamic is especially visible in the state's peripheral regions, in territories it has occupied since 1967, and along the Gaza border.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148260009","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}
Krithika Srinivasan, Guillem Rubio Ramon, Chris Pearson
{"title":"Veterinization at the Dog-Human-Health Interface Reconfiguring Interspecies Relations in India and the UK.","authors":"Krithika Srinivasan, Guillem Rubio Ramon, Chris Pearson","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2674744","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2674744","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Veterinization, catalyzed by worries about rabies in colonial Britain, has reconfigured dog-human relations beyond spaces of ill(health). Tracking human-dog relations across India and the UK, in this article, we argue that veterinization's reach is enabled by its \"species reductionism,\" and that the ramifications for human and animal health as well as wellbeing have not been entirely positive. Our analysis points to the need for circumspection about current paradigms of interspecies health and calls for the rethinking of health beyond anthropocentrism.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148212905","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":"In the River.","authors":"Red Wasburn","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2679585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2026.2679585","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This prose poem explores a nonbinary and transmasculine experience with total hysterectomy salpingectomy/ooporectomy as a gender-affirming procedure as well as treatment for stage four endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and multiple fibroids. In addition, it discusses ancestral lines, namely matrilineal afflictions with ovarian disease and corrective partial hysterectomies. It draws connections between nonbinary identity and transmasculinity and cisgender womanhood and motherhood. The piece uses symbolism to discuss death, grief, dysphoria, and pain to address the lived reality of transition, the death of a mother and the death of a body.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148151657","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":"Wild Vaccinations: Veterinary and Hunter Intersections in Response to Classical Swine Fever in Japan.","authors":"Maki Kitagawa","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2678369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2026.2678369","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 2018, wild boars (Sus scrofa) infected with classical swine fever in Japan became the focus of veterinary intervention for the first time. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on the oral vaccine distribution project and rethinking biosecurity, this article examines the possibility and limits of relating to wild animals in the era of unpredictable infectious disease. The implementation of \"wild vaccination\" demonstrates that the practical limitations of the vaccine drove veterinization. Yet this was not a unidirectional expansion of veterinary power; rather, it constituted a process of re-learning veterinary expertise, enacted in novel alliances with hunters.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148145135","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":"The Gestational Age Ceiling and Abortion Litigation in India.","authors":"Anindita Majumdar, Meenaz Kakalia","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2676662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2026.2676662","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gestational age (GA) ceiling as a concept is used across the world as a legal proscription in abortion access. In this article, we analyze India's Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act Amendment (2021) from the perspective of two recent litigations to engage with how a supposedly liberal GA ceiling may in reality be restrictive to accessing abortion services. Both the cases contest the increased GA ceiling of 24 weeks by seeking a termination past the date. We analyze the case judgments and media coverage to examine how medical personnel operationalize GA ceiling in abortion litigation, through the complex entwining of bodies and rights.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147976520","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":"Proving the Uterus in Third Party Reproduction.","authors":"Heather Jacobson","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2674749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2026.2674749","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>What is \"the proven uterus,\" a concept ubiquitous in US surrogacy? In this article, I interrogate this concept via content analysis of the medical/academic literature and media, and analysis of ethnographic data on US assisted reproduction. I find the seemingly neutral \"proving of the uterus\" visible in multiple ways in the medical literature has become a marketing term useful for the surrogacy industry, spawning the \"proven surrogate.\" These terms are embraced and strategically employed in the industry and by US surrogates themselves to increase their position in contract negotiations and to linguistically encapsulate their value on the market.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147976482","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":"Collective Healings of Colonial Wounds: A Conceptual Framework from Indigenous Perspectives.","authors":"Catalina Alvarado-Cañuta, César Abadía-Barrero","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2674746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2026.2674746","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Colonial violence is ongoing. It started with the first imperial invasions of Indigenous lands and continues harming communalist ways of life. Indigenous scholars think of the trauma of colonial violence as historical, connecting past, present, and future and wounding the spirits and souls of body-territories. Collective healings are ritual practices that strengthen or restore memories, identities, knowledge, and practices, reconnecting reciprocal relationships across beings and territories and alleviating colonial wounds. As such, collective healings processes support Indigenous resurgence in colonially wounded lands. As Indigenous knowledges, practices, identities, memories, languages, and rituals are strengthened, the body-territory rebalances what colonial violence disrupts.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147976470","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":"'Ask Where it Does Not Hurt': Bioviability, Pragmatic Investments and Early Hysterectomies in Maharashtra, India.","authors":"Neymat Chadha","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2671812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2026.2671812","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, I ethnographically examine early-age hysterectomies among sugarcane cutters in rural Maharashtra, framing them as \"pragmatic investments\" negotiated within and beyond biomedical regimes. I trace how women navigate social and clinical thresholds marking a shift from bioavailability to \"bioviability\", where removing the uterus becomes a way to \"get by.\" Situating hysterectomy within familial labor economies reveals a tension: although the uterus is deemed dispensable after sterilization, its removal becomes urgent to sustain work and care. Rather than alleviating suffering, early hysterectomies expose bioviability's limits, as present survival strategies intensify long-term debility, indebtedness, and vulnerability over time locally enacted.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147864587","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":"Sensory Ecologies of Therapeutics: Anti-Coloniality, Heritage Practices and Community Healing.","authors":"Kristina Baines","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2657567","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2657567","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among Belizean Maya and Garifuna communities, this paper forefronts the therapeutics of sensory experience in traditional healing practice. Exploring the sensory aspects of daily ecological interactions and asking which ways community heritage practices become constitutive of healing practices, it engages the embodied ecological heritage (EEH) framework to ask how these practices respond to ongoing forces of imperial projects. This paper brings together research around Indigenous land rights and identity-making in times of change with the author's personal experience of grief and collective healing toward a sensory ecology of therapeutics as a responsive, anti-colonial, community healing practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147692768","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":"A pill to control the uterus: misoprostol and reproductive politics in Burkina Faso and Senegal.","authors":"Siri Suh, Tidiane Ndoye, Nathalie Sawadogo","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2653860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2026.2653860","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>African women's uteri have long been objects of biomedical and technological control, from the promotion and discouragement of births by colonial authorities and development experts, to the neoliberal and feminist achievements of reproductive autonomy through consuming pharmaceutical products. We explore misoprostol - a medication for abortion and hemorrhage - as a technology for reproductive control in Burkina Faso and Senegal. By tracing authorized and unauthorized misoprostol use and distribution within and beyond hospitals, and in official and unofficial pharmaceutical circuits, we examine the perils of and possibilities for uterine control offered by this medication to local, national, and global stakeholders.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147634730","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}