Medical AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-01-02Epub Date: 2024-12-24DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2444617
Violeta Argudo-Portal
{"title":"Testing Ecology: Breast and Gynecological Cancer Predisposition Tests and the National Healthcare System in Spain.","authors":"Violeta Argudo-Portal","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2444617","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2444617","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This research asks what is being put to the test by breast and gynecological cancer predisposition testing in Spain beyond genes or cancer. By combining document analysis and fieldwork with national healthcare professionals and drawing on the anthropology and sociology of testing, I examine how the molecular relations of these tests extend to the political economy of the national healthcare system. I show how the capacity of these tests to produce a low-risk collective has paradoxical consequences for the political economy of the national healthcare system, unsettling professionals' concerns and spotlighting what is prioritized in personalized medicine strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"22-38"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883443","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 : 2025-01-02Epub Date: 2024-12-08DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2438054
James Staples, Rebecca Marsland
{"title":"Medical Anthropology Past, Present, and Future: The State of the Art.","authors":"James Staples, Rebecca Marsland","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2438054","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2438054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142796419","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 : 2025-01-02Epub Date: 2025-01-24DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2453166
Inga Haaland, Karama Ogillo
{"title":"Social Iatrogenesis and Social Risks Among Queer PrEP Users in Dar Es Salaam.","authors":"Inga Haaland, Karama Ogillo","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2453166","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2453166","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pre-exposure prophylaxis, commonly known as PrEP, is an HIV-preventative pill taken to reduce the risk of contracting HIV. During a PrEP study in Dar es Salaam among queer PrEP users, this ethnographic study observed how PrEP users experienced novel types of (social) risks and harms, or social iatrogenesis, imposed by the biomedical HIV prevention pill or the PrEP program. These forms of social iatrogenesis related to lack of autonomy, creating demand for PrEP, then removing services, projectivization of PrEP programs, social risks related to fear of stigma by association, and clinical encounters producing multiple understandings of adherence and usage of PrEP.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"83-95"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143034557","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":"Research, HIV/AIDS, and Turning <i>Waria</i> into a Key Population in Indonesia: An Ethnographic Oral History.","authors":"Benjamin Hegarty, Ferdiansyah Thajib, Amalia Puri Handayani, Rully Mallay, Arum Marischa","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2425042","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2425042","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The history of HIV/AIDS is often told from the Global North, a viewpoint that is naturalized in policies and programs that privilege biomedical models of treatment and prevention. This article explores how one Indonesian transgender population known as <i>waria</i> became the subject of various forms of research since the 1980s. Research was one way that waria came to be classified as part of the key population of \"transgender people.\" Drawing on an oral history project conducted in 2021/2022, we show how - while necessarily hierarchical - ethnographic accounts of other HIV/AIDS histories can rethink fundamental global health concepts.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"69-82"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142649307","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 : 2025-01-02Epub Date: 2024-12-19DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2438034
Mara Buchbinder, Erika L Sabbath
{"title":"Reproductive Healthcare After <i>Dobbs</i>: Rethinking Obstetric Harm in the United States.","authors":"Mara Buchbinder, Erika L Sabbath","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2438034","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2438034","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The obstetric violence framework proposes that clinicians harm pregnant people through physical and psychological mistreatment and violations of autonomy. In this article, we analyze interviews with 54 obstetrician-gynecologists (OB-GYNs) practicing in US states with near-total abortion bans to show how similar harms may also be performed through actions of the state. Reframing obstetric harm to include the behind-the-scenes work of state legislators as a looming presence in the clinical encounter permits us to see OB-GYNs from a different vantage point, and to understand their role as experiencing - and not just perpetuating - obstetric harm.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"6-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142865833","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 : 2024-11-16Epub Date: 2024-09-03DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2384734
Laura Perler, Tamara Sánchez Pérez
{"title":"In/Visible - A Photographic Journey Into the Lives of Egg Donors in Spain.","authors":"Laura Perler, Tamara Sánchez Pérez","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2384734","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2384734","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The result of a collaboration between an anthropologist and a photographer, in this photo essay we aim to visualize the medical process of egg donation and the quotidian lives of egg donors in Spain. By extending their biographies beyond the moment of extraction, we shed light on the intertwined messiness of medical procedures and everyday life and the precarious circumstances in which egg donation takes place in Spain today. Our aim is to highlight the participants who, although they matter most in the egg donation economy, are concealed: the egg donors.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"784-801"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142126961","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 : 2024-11-16Epub Date: 2024-12-21DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2439965
Polina Vlasenko
{"title":"Worker-Mothers Between Legitimation and Discipline: Ambiguities in Egg Donation and Surrogacy in Ukraine.","authors":"Polina Vlasenko","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2439965","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2439965","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article I explore the dual impact of framing egg donation and surrogacy as work in Ukraine's fertility market. Egg donors, surrogates, and ART professionals use the labor narrative to legitimize these practices, albeit with differing aims. Women emphasize their economic role as worker-mothers, demanding fair treatment and recognition, while clinics employ the framework to market surrogates and donors and hold them accountable for outcomes. Without legal labor protections, this discourse empowers women to claim dignity and rights yet imposes disciplinary demands and shifts risks onto them, reflecting the precarities of their work.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"714-733"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142872053","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 : 2024-11-16Epub Date: 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2023.2263806
Anna Molas
{"title":"Recentering Labor in the Egg Donation Bioeconomy: Egg Donors' (Re)productive Work and Subjectification in Spain.","authors":"Anna Molas","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2023.2263806","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2023.2263806","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 2019, Spanish fertility clinics reached a historical record of ova extractions. A total of 14,521 surgeries were performed to serve the growing egg demand internationally. Here I show how bringing a cycle to completion is not an easy task for egg donors. Selecting a clinic, understanding their own biocapital in the industry and how to invest it, fitting the cycle into their lives, and managing pain and emotions become crucial parts of their work. I argue that these activities constitute a vast amount of labor that, although essential for the generation of value in reproductive bioeconomies, remains invisible and undertheorized.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"770-783"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41160493","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 : 2024-11-16Epub Date: 2024-11-11DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2424364
Elina Nilsson
{"title":"Travelling Thai Surrogate Mothers: Required and Restricted Mobility in Transnational Surrogacy.","authors":"Elina Nilsson","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2424364","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2424364","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In response to the changing landscape of transnational surrogacy, the industry has introduced flexible business models requiring women to move within and across borders to act as surrogate mothers. However, knowledge about their experiences remain vague, particularly concerning women traveling abroad under illegal conditions. Building upon interviews with Thai surrogate mothers, I demonstrate how their im/mobility reveals critical insights into labor conditions and power relations and is formed within the global reproductive industry as well as the specific national context. I also argue that the women's im/mobility and flexibility are central when making themselves bioavailable for the global surrogacy market.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"734-747"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630423","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}