Medical AnthropologyPub Date : 2024-01-02Epub Date: 2024-01-19DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2023.2266860
Maj Nygaard-Christensen
{"title":"\"More Concerned About Mr. and Mrs. Denmark\": Coping with Pandemic Crisis at the Intersection of Homelessness and Drug Use.","authors":"Maj Nygaard-Christensen","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2023.2266860","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2023.2266860","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article builds on fieldwork conducted during lockdown in Denmark among users of services at the intersection of homelessness and drug use. The paper bridges two distinct approaches to understanding the relation between marginalization and crisis, with one focused on the impact of \"big events\" on marginalized populations, and another on everyday strategies employed to survive situations of homelessness and drug use. The paper shows how past experiences of hardship became relevant for coping with pandemic crisis. It further exploreshow, through critical engagement with dominant accounts of vulnerability, research participants carved out a space for negotiating their marginality in the Danish welfare state.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"17-30"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41216034","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 : 2024-01-02Epub Date: 2024-01-19DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2023.2276708
Claudia Fonseca, Lucia Scalco
{"title":"Defining the Limits of Acceptable Parenthood: Reproductive Governance in Brazil.","authors":"Claudia Fonseca, Lucia Scalco","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2023.2276708","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2023.2276708","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drawing on sources relating to the Brazilian scenario - from ethnographic research in lower-income neighorhoods to the analysis of official documents and public debates - we build on cases of forced child removals to explore the intersectional dynamics of class, race, and gender that underlie institutionalized practices of discrimination against poverty-stricken families. After first addressing the influence of recent global trends in child-protection policy, we observe how adoption procedures in Brazil have been increasingly facilitated by the resignification of rights and corresponding changes in the country's legal infrastructures. Next, asking what sort of authoritative knowledge is invoked to define a child's best interests, we reflect on the role played by biomedicine in appraising the limits of acceptable parenthood. Guided by the notion of stratified reproduction, our investigation of these political, scientific, and moral technologies suggests plausible connections between policies that condition the demand for and the supply of adoptable children.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"61-73"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71432272","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 : 2024-01-02Epub Date: 2024-01-19DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2023.2293125
Rebecca Marsland, James Staples
{"title":"Time for a Focus on Climate Change and Health.","authors":"Rebecca Marsland, James Staples","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2023.2293125","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2023.2293125","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":"43 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139492254","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 : 2024-01-02Epub Date: 2024-01-19DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2023.2293113
Lauren Carruth
{"title":"The Multispecies Sociality of Digestion and the Microbiopolitics of the Belly Among Somalis in Ethiopia.","authors":"Lauren Carruth","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2023.2293113","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2023.2293113","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Management of what Somalis call \"<i>dacar</i>\" - translated as digestive bile, bitterness, aloe, and masses of tiny beings in the gut - is key to popular health cultures and ethnophysiologies in eastern Ethiopia. Managing bodily <i>dacar</i> requires cultivating multispecies sociality and flows of life between humans, vegetation that nourishes livestock, and animals that produce milk consumed for therapeutic and nutritional properties. Transcending Western scientific conceptualizations of the \"gut microbiome\" and the instrumentalization of microbes to improve human health, Somalis' gut epistemologies and concept of <i>dacar</i> provide an ecological perspective on the co-constructed, mutable, and multispecies nature of digestion and life itself.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":"43 1","pages":"74-89"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139492316","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 : 2023-11-17Epub Date: 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2023.2230345
Leonie Dronkert
{"title":"Cripping Collaboration: Science Fiction and the Access to Disability Worlds.","authors":"Leonie Dronkert","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2023.2230345","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2023.2230345","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Inclusive participatory approaches strive to make participants with mild intellectual disabilities (MID) co-researchers. However, academic standards of knowledge production and the need for cognitive skills can complicate collaboration. I argue that collaboration with people with disabilities is not about efforts of inclusion, but instead, it is our methodologies that need to be \"cripped.\" This means moving away from the ideal of inclusion, toward a more interdependent and relational understanding of access and collaboration. This multimodal article shows how my \"research subject\" Olof and I explored this way of working together by describing the coproduction of the science-fiction film \"O.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"720-736"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10287420","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 : 2023-11-17Epub Date: 2023-11-16DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2023.2269468
Ulrike Scholtes
{"title":"Finding Words for Feeling Bodies: Exploring Drawing Techniques in Dutch Care Practices.","authors":"Ulrike Scholtes","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2023.2269468","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2023.2269468","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Feeling is difficult to put into words. Anthropologists have been seeking ways to articulate feeling or other bodily experiences, looking beyond words and borrowing from artistic methods. Drawings, for instance, have been used to make visible what words cannot describe and attributed with qualities associated with feeling or the body. Instead of placing drawing in opposition to words, and words in opposition to bodies, this article presents different ways of using drawing as an ethnographic technique to tentatively find practice-specific words to articulate practices of feeling the body. Rather than evaluating drawings based on their ability to capture feeling bodies, the author reflects on the drawing process as a way to learn about her research subjects in unexpected ways. Thereby, the author learns from artistic practices, not about making drawings, but about making methods. Acknowledging that methodologies are always generative, the author dives into the making of her methodologies to learn about her research subjects. .</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":"42 8","pages":"828-844"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136399766","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 : 2023-11-17Epub Date: 2023-11-16DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2023.2271635
A J Pols
{"title":"Generative Hanging Out: Developing Engaged Practices for Health-Related Research<sup>1</sup>.","authors":"A J Pols","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2023.2271635","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2023.2271635","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Hanging out\" with one's interlocutors generates ethnographic ways to creatively involve people in health care research. This special issue focusses on people who are difficult to engage in conventional research because they are not verbally fluent, such as people with dementia or learning disabilities, or who speak a language that the researcher does not understand. In this introduction I discuss how \"Hanging out\" shifts the goal-orientation of research practices toward relationships and settings. Hierarchies may be shifted to provide attractive possibilities for interlocutors to participate by doing things together with the researcher. The research practice itself becomes the object of analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":"42 8","pages":"707-719"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136399767","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 : 2023-11-17Epub Date: 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2023.2235068
Helena Cleeve
{"title":"Drawing in Ethnography: Seeing and Unseeing Everyday Life with Dementia in Sweden.","authors":"Helena Cleeve","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2023.2235068","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01459740.2023.2235068","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, I present how drawing offers valuable ethnographic possibilities in care settings where verbal communication is challenging. The empirical examples derive from a study where I drew in situ in dementia care units to explore what residents and staff members found important in their everyday practices. I demonstrate how experimenting with the drawing process as well as the resulting drawings enabled diverse forms of participation to <i>see</i> and <i>unsee</i> matters together with residents and staff members. Treating drawings as steppingstones, meant that inquiries could be shaped together with interlocutors and that questions could be kept open and relevant.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"752-770"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10108653","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}