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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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Ambivalent Speculations: Learning to Live with Barrett's Esophagus in the UK Using Facebook Support Groups. 矛盾的猜测:在英国利用 Facebook 支持小组学会与巴雷特食道癌共存。
IF 1.3 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-02 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2376004
Elspeth Davies
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Negotiating Identities in the COVID-19 Crisis: The Global-Local Dilemma of Medical Epidemiologists in Taiwan. COVID-19危机中的身份谈判:台湾医学流行病学家的全球-地方困境。
IF 1.3 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-27 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2535997
Shao-Hua Liu
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Response-Able Care and Undone Care Spaces: The Role of Digital Technologies in Danish Epilepsy Care. 可响应的护理和未完成的护理空间:数字技术在丹麦癫痫护理中的作用。
IF 1.3 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-05 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2026.2653857
Frederike Fahse, Henriette Langstrup
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The State, the Household, the Voluntary Sector: The Pharmaceuticalization and Collectivization of Care in Athens' Social Clinics of Solidarity. 国家,家庭,志愿部门:雅典团结社会诊所的医药化和集体化护理。
IF 1.3 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-09 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2026.2666903
Letizia Bonanno
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Modalities of Enfleshment: Albinism and the Limits of Biosociality in Tanzania. 具体化的方式:白化病和生物社会性的限制在坦桑尼亚。
IF 1.3 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-01 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2026.2679588
Giorgio Brocco
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Modes of Speculation. 投机模式。
IF 1.3 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-26 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2026.2688801
Ayo Wahlberg
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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 1.3 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
{"title":"Eggcentrism: On How Eggs Come to Matter in Chinese IVF.","authors":"Jiaqi Liu, Jianfeng Zhu, Mei Ding, Rubing Yang, Dong Dong","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2634618","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2634618","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We introduce <i>eggcentrism</i> to examine how eggs govern women's time, choices, and worth in Chinese IVF clinics. Drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork, we explore how clinical and social infrastructures render the egg central to scrutiny and responsibility. Through clinical observations and patient narratives, we critique how reproductive care practices make the egg visible, actionable, and culturally charged. While women's bodies are intensively managed, male infertility remains peripheral. We argue that <i>eggcentrism</i> reveals how temporal pressure, clinical practices, and technoscientific governance shape reproductive outcomes and the cultural terrain women navigate, reinforcing gendered burdens in reproductive medicine.Media teaser: Eggs are positioned at the center of fertility care in China, shaping how women's time, responsibility, and value are judged in IVF clinics.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"109-123"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147272536","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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Toward an Understanding of the Healthcare System in Japan: A Co-Constructed Account. 对日本医疗保健制度的理解:一个共同构建的账户。
IF 1.3 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-13 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2026.2671804
Roger Goodman, Naoki Ikegami
{"title":"Toward an Understanding of the Healthcare System in Japan: A Co-Constructed Account.","authors":"Roger Goodman, Naoki Ikegami","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2671804","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2671804","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Through an experimental approach, that incorporates a Japanese form of academic dialogue known as <i>taidan</i>, this article sets out to capture how an experienced British anthropologist of Japan draws on their own experiences as a patient to learn from a Japanese \"key informant,\" what they believe constitute the key elements for understanding the healthcare system in Japan. This approach is intended to make more transparent the process through which anthropologists produce their accounts by highlighting the \"voice of the informant\" alongside that of the anthropologist.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"421-432"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147934620","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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Treatment Multiplicity in a Nigerian Psychiatric Hospital. 尼日利亚一家精神病医院的治疗多样性。
IF 1.3 3区 社会学
Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-13 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2026.2656925
Timothy Olanrewaju Alabi
{"title":"Treatment Multiplicity in a Nigerian Psychiatric Hospital.","authors":"Timothy Olanrewaju Alabi","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2656925","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2026.2656925","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, I investigate the multiplicity of mental healthcare practices at Aro Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Abeokuta, Nigeria, using Annemarie Mol's theory of multiple bodies to explore how biomedical, sociocultural, and spiritual dimensions intersect in treatment. Drawing on nine months of hospital ethnography, I illustrate how care practices integrate global biomedical standards with local cultural beliefs about personhood and recovery. Formal interventions-psychotropic medication and occupational therapy-are complemented by spiritual counseling and moral rehabilitation, reflecting Yoruba ontology. These practices adapt global holistic frameworks to resource-constrained settings. This article advocates for culturally resonant recovery models, contributing to global mental health discourse.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"208-226"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147677726","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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