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 : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-05-04DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2495633
Kim Sigmund
{"title":"Caring for Women of Color: Community-Based Doulas' Strategies in Hospital Birth in Los Angeles.","authors":"Kim Sigmund","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2495633","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2495633","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the United States, women of color experience worse pregnancy and birth outcomes than white women. Likewise, many women of color report facing discrimination from perinatal health providers, and many experience precarity that can negatively impact birth experiences and outcomes. In this context, more women of color now embrace the use of community-based doulas. Using ethnographic data, I argue that community-based doulas, as members of the communities in which they offer their services, are uniquely able to negotiate the tensions between their clients and biomedical birth practitioners to engender acts of transformative agency and forward the cause of reproductive justice.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"378-391"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12306672/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144024691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medical AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-05-26DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2507973
María Hernández, Alyshia Gálvez, Sandra Verdaguer, Samuel Martínez, César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero, Karen R Flórez
{"title":"<i>Remedios Caseros</i>: Imperative Resilience Among Mexican Immigrants in the Bronx (USA) During the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"María Hernández, Alyshia Gálvez, Sandra Verdaguer, Samuel Martínez, César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero, Karen R Flórez","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2507973","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2507973","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Communities with already high rates of non-communicable diseases, including Mexican immigrants living in the Bronx, were burdened further by the novel coronavirus. In this context, many individuals sought ways to prevent and mitigate symptoms of COVID-19, including homemade remedies. Twenty-five semi-structured interviews with Mexican immigrants living in the Bronx reveal how they devised and deployed <i>remedios caseros</i> (home remedies) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants attributed use of remedios caseros to factors such as overpacked hospitals and limited information from authoritative sources about preventing and alleviating COVID-19. Findings suggest that home remedies were a survival strategy born out of necessity, or imperative resilience.<b>Media teaser</b>: Mexican immigrants devised and deployed strategies around remedios caseros in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"314-330"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12256184/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144144054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medical AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-03-06DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2475925
Małgorzata Rajtar
{"title":"Sensing Rhabdomyolysis: Building Sensorial Knowledge in Inherited Metabolic Disorders in Poland.","authors":"Małgorzata Rajtar","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2475925","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2475925","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sensations have emerged as an increasingly important topic in anthropological studies of health and disease. In this article, I draw from ethnographic research conducted among people living with selected rare inherited metabolic diseases (IMDs) and their caregivers in Poland, focusing specifically on recurrent rhabdomyolysis, a long-term complication that affects energy-consuming organs and muscles. Employing insights from sensorial and medical anthropology, I examine how people with IMDs and their caregivers, as parent-patient units, build anticipatory sensorial knowledge that enables them to attend to bodily sensations symptomatic of elevated creatine kinase levels, which are characteristic of rhabdomyolysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"441-456"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143574235","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 : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-06-08DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2504366
Jacquelyne Luce
{"title":"Diagnostic Moments in the Rare Disease Life Narratives of Mitochondrial Disease Patients in Germany.","authors":"Jacquelyne Luce","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2504366","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2504366","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>I draw on interviews I conducted in Germany with four individuals who were eventually diagnosed with mitochondrial disease, a category of rare neurogenetic disorders. Rather than the diagnosis of mitochondrial disease serving as a threshold between a before and after, I show how multiple ″diagnostic moments″ generate and shape mitochondrial disease life narratives as affected individuals embody emergent medical knowledge and navigate scientific unknowns. Attending to the plurality of diagnostic moments in rare disease life narratives illuminates the fragmented temporalities and incoherencies of illness experiences, which are often erased by an emphasis on a singular diagnostic moment.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"414-426"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144250288","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 : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-08-22DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2535990
Alena Thiel, Lars Rune Christensen
{"title":"Attuning to Global Health: Health Data Infrastructuring, Epidemiological Accountability and Digital Labor in Ghana.","authors":"Alena Thiel, Lars Rune Christensen","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2535990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2025.2535990","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among Ghanaian officials and international developers in the field of health information systems, we investigate how innovations in health data infrastructures are aligned with global practices of epidemiological accountability. The digital health information system DHIS2 has been adopted in various low- and middle-income countries, including Ghana. While global stakeholders render public health a matter of efficiency and accountability, public health professionals attune at various levels to emerging global health priorities and data practices, e.g. the translation of standard case definitions and quantitative measures into local contexts, or innovations in reporting channels of key public health indicators.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":"44 6","pages":"547-559"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974056","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}