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}
Medical AnthropologyPub Date : 2024-11-16Epub Date: 2024-05-21DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2355959
Burcu Mutlu
{"title":"Strategic In/Visibility of Turkish Egg Donors: Reproductive Labor, Secrecy, and Stigma in the Transnational Bioeconomy.","authors":"Burcu Mutlu","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2355959","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2355959","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Northern Cypriot clinic, I examine how practices of secrecy function as strategic tools for invisibilization in the lived realities of Turkish egg donors engaged in an illicit, gendered, and stigmatized form of reproductive labor, both within and across national borders. Combining feminist studies of reproductive labor with an analysis of secrecy, stigma, and dirty work, I adopt a notion of secrecy as an embodied social practice to explore ethnographically how secrecy is integral to the bioavailability of Turkish egg donors. Secret practices enable these young women to intimately navigate gendered moral, health, socio-legal, and financial concerns within the challenging wider context of restrictive reproductive biopolitics, a legally ambigious cross-border biomedical market, fragile socio-economic conditions, and a heteropatriarchal sexual culture in Turkey. For Turkish egg donors, who opt for strategic invisibilization, moral and financial concerns sometimes override health and legal considerations. Secrecy sustains this transnational bioeconomy while simultaneously concealing its exploitative harms and risks.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"697-713"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141077067","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: 2024-12-04DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2438032
Michal Nahman
{"title":"The Centrality and Value of Women's Voices.","authors":"Michal Nahman","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2438032","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2438032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"671-672"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142773624","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: 2024-06-12DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2364244
Ariadna Ayala, Consuelo Álvarez Plaza, Ana María Rivas
{"title":"Bridging Reproductive and Productive Work: The Case of Surrogates in California.","authors":"Ariadna Ayala, Consuelo Álvarez Plaza, Ana María Rivas","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2364244","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2364244","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, we explore the perspectives of commercial gestational surrogates in California, USA. Women who gestate for others reveal themselves as important agents in the process of giving meaning and cultural legitimacy to their practice, thus demonstrating their capacity to act in their own interest and resignify their work in their own terms. To them, surrogacy is more than wage labor. They assert the importance of their experience as a source of professional skills, downplaying its monetary value and placing it within favorable moral frameworks, thus finding cultural legitimacy. In doing so, they bridge the divide between traditional female reproductive work (unpaid emotional, relational, and care work) and productive work (paid professional work in the public sphere). They achieve this without subverting the underlying values of western kinship. The results shed light on employability and entrepreneurship of surrogates in the fertility industry of California.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"748-769"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141311951","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: 2024-09-30DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2406769
Nerina Weiss
{"title":"Dangerous Knowledge and Proxy-Reasons: A Kurdish Woman's Therapeutic Attempts.","authors":"Nerina Weiss","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2406769","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2024.2406769","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Jihan, a former Kurdish guerilla fighter, struggles to gain medical treatment for the health problems she suffers as a result of war and trauma. The provision of care in Turkey has been motivated by ethno-political security concerns. Therefore, medical encounters are characterized by silences, not-knowing and of averting danger. Based on theories of ignorance, I explore how experiences of war and torture constitute dangerous knowledge that are difficult to share in a context, without a guaranteed therapeutic safe space. Patient and doctor navigate mistrust, silences and proxy-reasons in an attempt to deal with the traumata and violent experiences left unsaid.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"598-610"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142336900","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: 2024-10-21DOI: 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}