Medical AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-06-13DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2517580
Ida Nielsen Sølvhøj
{"title":"\"Is This Violence?\" Subtlety, Doubt, and the Struggle to Narrate Transgressive Behavior in Denmark.","authors":"Ida Nielsen Sølvhøj","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2517580","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2517580","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Based on multi-sited fieldwork in Denmark, I explore how Danish women and men negotiate their positions as potential victims of intimate partner violence: in particular, psychological violence. First, focusing on retrospective stories about everyday life, I argue that violence may be experienced as subtle and not necessarily noisy. Second, by turning my attention to public narratives about psychological violence, I demonstrate that they often fail to align with the interlocutors' stories. This, I suggest, can lead to transgressive behavior being interpreted as nonviolence. This article offers a detailed analysis of the subtle micro-mechanisms that underpin the first manifestations of violence.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"560-575"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144286828","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: 2025-05-23DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2507972
Stefan Reinsch
{"title":"Immigrants to Health: Negotiating Liminality and Belonging with Cystic Fibrosis in Germany.","authors":"Stefan Reinsch","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2507972","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2507972","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cystic fibrosis is a rare genetic disease that significantly reduces life expectancy. Therapy can delay the progression of the disease, but it is onerous, time-consuming and makes the disease more visible, creating a sense of not belonging to the healthy peer group that young people desperately want. Recent, very expensive advances in therapeutic interventions have dramatically reduced both the therapeutic load and the visibility of the condition. Drawing on a long-term ethnographic study in Germany, I explore how this changes the ways people with cystic fibrosis negotiate belonging, which is experienced as a metaphorical immigration into the world of the healthy.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"457-472"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144127734","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: 2025-05-14DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2504364
Roos Metselaar
{"title":"\"Not Too Different\": Doing Resemblance, Enacting Boundaries in Sperm Donor Matching For/By Dutch Intended Parents.","authors":"Roos Metselaar","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2504364","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2504364","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Scholars writing about selecting gamete donors have emphasized the importance of resemblance when choosing a donor. However, while they have thoroughly researched the question of why prospective parents consider resemblance important, <i>how</i> resemblance is <i>done</i> remains unexplored. Adopting a material semiotics approach and employing ethnographic research about sperm-donor matching for and by prospective parents in the Netherlands, I argue that resemblance matching entails enacting boundaries between people deemed \"similar enough\" and \"too different.\" In relational practices of (not) doing kinship and doing resemblance, race is often enacted as a relevant difference.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"392-405"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144081405","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: 2025-04-14DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2488957
Nicoletta Diasio, Eva Laiacona
{"title":"Uncertainty and Regimes of Temporality Among Girls and Women with Turner Syndrome in France.","authors":"Nicoletta Diasio, Eva Laiacona","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2488957","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2488957","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Based on ethnographic fieldwork with people living with Turner syndrome in France, in this article we analyze the relationship between uncertainty and temporalities specific to rare diseases. We first show how the syndrome requires a work of interpretation to decipher an opaque body and the desynchronization between bodily changes and age positions. We then analyze how the delay in information and diagnosis can change the perception and consequences of the disease. Finally, we show how new treatments or biotechnologies provide new imagined futures, multiplying choices but also the risk of failure and some ethical dilemmas in the contemporary French context.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"427-440"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144024749","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: 2025-03-06DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2475927
Siyi Chen
{"title":"The Reconfiguration of Stigma: (Mis)understanding the COVID-19 Infection and Contagion in Rural Central China.","authors":"Siyi Chen","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2475927","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2475927","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Based on an ethnography of a Chinese village, this article examines the re-stigmatization of recovered COVID-19 patients in China's COVID-19 response between 2020 and 2022. I show that distrust in the local government was reactivated in epidemic governance and led to the production of localized knowledge as a proactive response to official knowledge, which prompted stigma driven by health concerns. As the epidemic governance intensified alongside viral mutations, the stigma was reconfigured into a broader threat to livelihoods. This research indicates stigmatization is a complex and nuanced process shaped by the interplay between epidemic governance and local social dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"331-344"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143573772","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: 2025-07-30DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2540530
Kurt Cassar
{"title":"The Care of Deeply Significant Insignificant Things: An Ethnographic Study of Palliative Care in Malta.","authors":"Kurt Cassar","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2540530","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2540530","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In Malta, palliative care is often seen by nurses, policymakers and others as care of doing nothing. In my study, I demonstrate how nurses working in a palliative care unit attend to what, in the Maltese language, are called ċuċati: seemingly trivial acts that, even within palliative care, are often not recognized as legitimate forms of care, yet have a profound effect on patients' well-being. In this article, I highlight a paradoxical relationship between the ċuċati and formal recognition. Formal recognition, while providing a means to legitimization, also risks depersonalizing the ċuċati, potentially undermining nurses' intent to improve patients' well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"590-603"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144745481","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: 2025-07-07DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2527097
Rebecca Irons
{"title":"A Bogotana House of the Spirits: Venezuelan and Colombian HIV/AIDS Biosociality Beyond-the-Living.","authors":"Rebecca Irons","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2527097","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2527097","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Biosociality is often referenced regarding those living with HIV/AIDS, but scholarship takes for granted that these relationships exist between living beings. Based on long-term ethnography in refuge houses for Venezuelan migrants and Colombians living with HIV in Bogotá, Colombia, I argue that HIV/AIDS biosociality may also exist between the living and beyond-the-living <i>espíritus</i> who historically lived and died with HIV/AIDS. The discussion will show how consideration of biosociality beyond-the-living can act as an important analytical tool in understanding the experiences of migrants living with HIV in Latin America and how they come to interpret their situation and futures.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"503-518"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7618214/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144576676","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: 2025-07-29DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2540528
Juan Pablo Zabala, Pablo R Kreimer
{"title":"Aliens, Scientific Methods and Risks. Health Care Professionals Opposed to Vaccination Against COVID-19 in Argentina.","authors":"Juan Pablo Zabala, Pablo R Kreimer","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2540528","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2540528","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We analyze the ways in which different researchers and health professionals in Argentina (physicians, biochemists, epidemiologists) develop their arguments against mass vaccination against COVID-19. In particular, we explore how these positions are related to the mobilization of scientific knowledge-or arguments compatible with scientific reasoning-and to issues related to other interests (professional, political, economic, among others). Our aim is to advance the understanding of a potentially contradictory position: that of researchers and health professionals who hold positions that contradict some of the principles that hegemonically articulate the professional field.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"533-546"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144745480","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":"Coming-Around: Living with Lung Cancer on the Nether Side of Rehabilitation in Denmark.","authors":"Mikala Erlik, Malene Missel, Morten Quist, Helle Timm","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2540532","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2025.2540532","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Inequality in cancer is often framed as disparities in mortality, incidence, and treatment. Cancer rehabilitation aims to help people live the best possible life with cancer, regardless of their background. In this study, I explore how people with lung cancer who are not participating in rehabilitation perceive and navigate everyday life. I use the concepts \"biographical disruption,\" \"biographical flow,\" and \"struggling along\" to conceptualize their way of life as a \"coming-around\" existence. I argue that inequality in cancer rehabilitation should go beyond unequal participation and focus on unequal opportunities to be understood and embraced by the healthcare system.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"576-589"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144817921","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}