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"Making One's Own Doctor" :"Épicerie medicine" and the Informal Circulation of Antibiotics in Northern Madagascar. “做自己的医生”：“Épicerie医学”和马达加斯加北部抗生素的非正式流通。
IF 1.2 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-04-11 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2026.2656931
Mingyuan Zhang Betancourt
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A pill to control the uterus: misoprostol and reproductive politics in Burkina Faso and Senegal. 控制子宫的药丸：米索前列醇与布基纳法索和塞内加尔的生殖政治。
IF 1.2 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-04-08 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2026.2653860
Siri Suh, Tidiane Ndoye, Nathalie Sawadogo
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Uterine Vulnerability: A Lived Experience Response to Endometriosis. 子宫脆弱性：子宫内膜异位症的生活经验反应。
IF 1.2 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-01-22 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2026.2617654
Caroline Meier Zu Biesen
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Eggcentrism: On How Eggs Come to Matter in Chinese IVF. 卵子中心主义：论卵子在中国试管受精中的重要性。
IF 1.2 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-23 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2026.2634618
Jiaqi Liu, Jianfeng Zhu, Mei Ding, Rubing Yang, Dong Dong
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Business as Normal? 一切如常？
IF 1.2 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-21 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2026.2617656
Tom Widger, James Staples, Rebecca Marsland
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The "New Flu": Ontological Insecurity and Pandemic Sense-Making in the US South. “新流感”：美国南部的本体论不安全感和大流行意义。
IF 1.2 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-21 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2026.2617655
Jasmina Polovič, Laura A Bray, Gloria Tallbull, Paul Spicer, Amanda E Janitz, Lori L Jervis
{"title":"The \"New Flu\": Ontological Insecurity and Pandemic Sense-Making in the US South.","authors":"Jasmina Polovič, Laura A Bray, Gloria Tallbull, Paul Spicer, Amanda E Janitz, Lori L Jervis","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2617655","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2617655","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pandemics are inherently disruptive, evoking uncomfortable and unsustainable emotions. We explore the emotional landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic and its normalization among vaccine hesitant residents in Oklahoma. Ontological insecurity reported at the pandemic's outset stemmed from the absence of a clear and resonant cultural script that left individuals to construct narratives in which COVID-19 came to be understood as the \"New Flu.\" Within a backdrop of institutional distrust, participants enacted this narrative through individual health practices. The \"New Flu\" became a symbol that normalized ontological disruption by transforming the perception of COVID-19 as uncertain and existentially threatening into emotionally manageable.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"19-33"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146019841","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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Crystal Meth, "High Blood," and Spiritual Manifestations Among Injection Drug-Using Youths in Mufakose, Harare. 水晶冰毒，“高血”，以及哈拉雷穆法科塞注射吸毒青年的精神表现。
IF 1.2 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-21 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2026.2619421
Florence Ncube
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Ordinary Possession: Kinship, Alterity, and the Perils of Selfhood in Pakistan. 普通财产：巴基斯坦的亲属关系、另类和自我的危险。
IF 1.2 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-28 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2026.2617649
Muhammad Osama Imran, Sanaullah Khan
{"title":"Ordinary Possession: Kinship, Alterity, and the Perils of Selfhood in Pakistan.","authors":"Muhammad Osama Imran, Sanaullah Khan","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2617649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2026.2617649","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article we theorize ordinary possession as a form of self-estrangement through which tension, kinship pressure, and dissociative states are negotiated in everyday life in Pakistan. Rather than treating <i>jinns</i> as episodic intrusions, we show how their presence is apprehended as part of a relational field in which the boundaries of the self are routinely unsettled. We show how possession makes visible crises of authority and belonging within joint households. Ordinary possession thus names a psycho-ethical process in which the self becomes unfamiliar to itself in ways that allow suffering or resentment to be voiced without direct accusation.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":"45 1","pages":"52-64"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146167343","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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Navigating Challenges with Trust and Creativity: Adolescents' Experiences of COVID-19 in Iceland. 以信任和创造力应对挑战：冰岛青少年应对COVID-19的经历。
IF 1.2 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-03 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2026.2638810
Eva Jörgensen, Ria Reis, Jónína Einarsdóttir
{"title":"Navigating Challenges with Trust and Creativity: Adolescents' Experiences of COVID-19 in Iceland.","authors":"Eva Jörgensen, Ria Reis, Jónína Einarsdóttir","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2638810","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2638810","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this study, we explore the relational dimensions of resilience among adolescents in Iceland during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the frameworks of social-ecological resilience and the embodied, social, and public child, we examine how resilience manifests through interactions with family, peers, and community. Participants employed tactical trust and creative strategies to navigate restrictions, transforming digital and physical spaces into sources of social connection. Their critical engagement with public health policies highlighted vulnerability as integral to resilience. Our findings reveal resilience as an active, context-dependent process shaped by relational and systemic factors, offering insights for inclusive, child-centered public health strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"79-93"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147345440","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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Still in the Danwei: How Danwei Memory Anchors Institutional Dementia Care in Urban China. 仍在单薇：单薇记忆如何锚定中国城市机构性痴呆护理。
IF 1.2 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-09 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2026.2640588
Yuan Yan
{"title":"Still in the Danwei: How Danwei Memory Anchors Institutional Dementia Care in Urban China.","authors":"Yuan Yan","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2640588","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2640588","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Based on ethnographic fieldwork in an urban Chinese care home, this article examines how residents with dementia establish familiarity in institutional settings. Contrary to home-making approaches that locate familiarity in domestic intimacy, residents reorient themselves through collective embeddedness. Engaging with routines, material arrangements, and social interactions, they reinterpret the care home through the <i>danwei</i>-the socialist work unit that once organized labor and welfare. This resonance activates embodied experiences of familarity and security rooted in the socialist state. The article shows that familiarity in dementia care may emerge not only from home but from collective institutional worlds that structured earlier life.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"140-152"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147379091","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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