Medical AnthropologyPub Date : 2024-10-02Epub Date: 2024-10-21DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2410244
Gitte Vandborg Rasmussen, Lotte Meinert, Michael G Flaherty
{"title":"Time and ADHD in Danish Families: Mutual Affect Through Rhythm.","authors":"Gitte Vandborg Rasmussen, Lotte Meinert, Michael G Flaherty","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2410244","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2410244","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Based on fieldwork in Danish families living with ADHD, we expand on Nielsen's insight that ADHD is experienced as a state of desynchronization by showing how family members' rhythms mutually affect each other. We argue that ADHD is not only a biological and psychiatric condition, but also a temporal and socially responsive phenomenon. The intensity of ADHD is influenced by mutual affect in families and by general life circumstances. Families constitute bodily networks through which sensations, moods, rhythms, and practices spread and are passed down through generations. Yet, families use various time work strategies to manage rhythm affect.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"626-640"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477638","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 Persistence of Traditional Healing for Mental Illness Among the Korekore People in Rushinga District, Zimbabwe.","authors":"Maja Jakarasi","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2406786","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2406786","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite concerted attempts by colonial governments to stamp out traditional healing practices, the Korekore-speaking Shona people have continued to seek healing for mental illness from traditional healers in present-day Zimbabwe. In this article, I discuss the health-seeking trajectories of Korekore people when confronted with mental illness, particularly when and why they seek out traditional healing, and the role that traditional healers play in the quest for therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"611-625"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142366944","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 : 2024-10-02Epub Date: 2024-10-08DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2410251
Irene Groenevelt, Jenny Slatman
{"title":"On the Affectivity of Touch: Enacting Bodies in Dutch Osteopathy.","authors":"Irene Groenevelt, Jenny Slatman","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2410251","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2410251","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Osteopathy is a complementary treatment method that targets motor restrictions and enhances motility through touch. While recent studies have explored the functions, dimensions, and effects of touch in osteopathy, there is a lack of research on how touch renders bodies intelligible - or <i>what</i> bodies, for that matter. In this article, we use the verb <i>to affect/to be affected</i> to explore how bodies become known by and to Dutch osteopaths, and how the senses play a role in this. Our analysis shows how touch allows osteopaths to affect and be affected by their patients' bodies - as well as by their own.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"641-654"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142394231","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 : 2024-10-02Epub Date: 2024-11-11DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2420117
Alessia Costa
{"title":"Un/Diagnosed: Family Experience of Genomic Diagnoses and the Re-Making of (Rare) Disease in the UK.","authors":"Alessia Costa","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2420117","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2420117","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drawing on three years of ethnographic engagement with the rare disease community in the United Kingdom and Europe, this article explores the experiences of families who seek and (sometimes) receive a genomic diagnosis. I trace how families learn to enact unexplained symptoms and common disabilities as rare, genetic disorders, and how they coordinate genomic and non-genomic ways of \"doing\" disease within and beyond the clinic. These experiences shed light on the socio-material processes through which genomic variants become \"diseases\" (or fail to do so), and on the implications for those whose lives have become entangled with the genomic agenda.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":"43 7","pages":"655-668"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630427","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 : 2024-10-02Epub Date: 2024-11-11DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2410249
Veronika Siegl
{"title":"Not-Quite-Dead: Ontological Careographies and the Ambiguous Fetal Body in the Context of Disability-Selective Pregnancy Termination in Austria.","authors":"Veronika Siegl","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2410249","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2410249","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Starting from the unsettling ambiguity of the aborted but not-quite-dead fetus, I scrutinize how clinical staff interpret, decide on, and grapple with fetal life signs following disability-selective pregnancy terminations in Austria. Understanding their practices as attempts to provide certainty in a context of ontological and moral uncertainty, I conceptualize them as acts of care that contribute to an intricate \"ontological careography\" and facilitate classifying the not-quite-dead as an already-dead fetus. I show that the interpretation of life signs is not a simple matter of biological \"facts\" - what is ultimately at stake is the active making of life and death.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":"43 7","pages":"569-582"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630425","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 : 2024-10-02Epub Date: 2024-10-07DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2410969
Alex K Gearin
{"title":"Healing with Ayahuasca the Plant Teacher: Psychedelic Metaphoricity and Polyontologies.","authors":"Alex K Gearin","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2410969","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2410969","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Shamans, neo-shamans, atheists, and others describe gaining special knowledge from drinking ayahuasca, supporting the cross-cultural idea of ayahuasca as a plant teacher. While secular enthusiasts interpret this metaphorically, animists and others take it literally. This article examines ontological collisions at a healing retreat in the Peruvian Amazon, considering Shipibo shamans and their international clients. It explores how embodied experiences, such as purging and visions, inform both literal and metaphorical views of healing and illness. By addressing incommensurable ontologies, the article highlights how a polyontological framework approaches ontological collision without necessarily privileging specific ways of knowing.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"583-597"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142382046","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":"Framing the Labor of Paid Egg Donors in Iran: Marginality, Gendered Care, and Divine Reward.","authors":"Tiba Bonyad","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2395291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2024.2395291","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the economic incentives evidenced in the recruitment strategies of the Iranian fertility industry for egg donors, the official discourse put forward by policymakers conveys egg donation as an altruistic act. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in two fertility clinics in Tehran, I center the narratives of paid egg donors to investigate how multiple meanings are attributed to egg donation as a form of labor, demonstrating how reproductive inequalities are perpetuated in this context. Following feminist theorists of reproductive bioeconomies, I argue that Iranian donors experience and articulate their participation in local egg market through the prism of their economic marginality, gendered responsibilities, and religiously informed beliefs, including divine reward.","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":"10 1","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142185848","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 : 2024-08-17Epub Date: 2024-07-29DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2384749
Lisa Engström
{"title":"Controlling the Diabetic Body? Managing Chronic Illness with Wearable Technology.","authors":"Lisa Engström","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2384749","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2384749","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>I explore the experience of managing type 1 diabetes with wearable technology. Type 1 diabetes is a chronic illness which requires continuous maintenance to keep the blood glucose levels within range. Using autoethnography, I investigate both the practices of translating information from technology and from senses, and also from health authorities, into practices. I conclude that the management of type 1 diabetes is informed by an urge to control the body, but this situation can be understood otherwise from a logic of care.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"522-537"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141789416","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 : 2024-08-17Epub Date: 2024-08-05DOI: 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}