{"title":"Carcerality, Care, and the Abolitionist Horizon on Ethnography's Edges.","authors":"Carlos Martinez, Lauren Textor","doi":"10.1111/maq.70100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.70100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47649,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"e70100"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148992048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antibiotic use in Türkiye: Everyday encounters of translating policy and negotiating rationality","authors":"Ayse Nalan Azak","doi":"10.1111/maq.70086","DOIUrl":"10.1111/maq.70086","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Antibiotic use surged during COVID-19 despite it being a viral illness, heightening global concerns about antimicrobial resistance (AMR). In Türkiye - where antibiotic consumption and AMR were already high - this paradox exposed longstanding tensions between policy and practice. Türkiye has adopted World Health Organization guidelines promoting the “rational” (<i>akılcı</i>) use of antibiotics, yet everyday healthcare encounters reveal how these reforms are translated, negotiated and reinterpreted. Drawing on fieldwork in Istanbul, this article shows how local expectations of antibiotics as symbols of care and professional competence shape prescription and use. Rather than aligning practice with policy, stewardship reforms are absorbed into existing moral and relational norms, reinforcing rather than transforming existing dynamics of care. Global stewardship attempts, as they filter through local systems, understandings and situated priorities, are vernacularized in ways that diverge from their original intentions - redistributing accountability without addressing the structural conditions that shape antibiotic use.</p>","PeriodicalId":47649,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology Quarterly","volume":"40 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148370394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What's in a Name? Psychiatric Concept Creep and the Moral Legibility of Student Suffering within the Canadian University Context","authors":"Adrianna Nicole Wiley","doi":"10.1111/maq.70062","DOIUrl":"10.1111/maq.70062","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores how students experiencing mental unwellness negotiate psychiatric constructs of mental health to make their suffering morally legible within the North American University context. I argue while the psychiatric construct remains pervasive, students are ambivalent toward it as a metaphor for their distress. Students engage in bottom-up psychiatrization pragmatically to navigate relational contexts when appropriate for them, while recognizing that the impacts of top-down psychiatrization can limit institutional moral care obligations, constraining their authority to communicate their subjective experiences authentically outside psychiatric idioms. In essence, psychiatric labeling is constraining, but students often exert agency by refusing a psychiatric master status while still recognizing their need to use psychiatric labels to allow their suffering to be seen and addressed within the current cultural-historical moment of psychiatrization.</p>","PeriodicalId":47649,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology Quarterly","volume":"40 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/maq.70062","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147391543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Watching you wear out: Time as clinical labor","authors":"Stephanie Davies","doi":"10.1111/maq.70082","DOIUrl":"10.1111/maq.70082","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on clinical fieldwork in NHS general practice in East London, I consider the relationship between time, chronic illness, and therapeutic endeavor. Over the course of three treatment narratives, I attempt to show the negative labor that I claim is implied when clinical time is used to watch and wait as somebody is “wearing out” from chronic conditions. This may be the only form of care available to clinicians in situations where medicine is limited in what it can do to intervene. It emerges in response to illnesses that must be allowed to run their course and recurring symptoms that must somehow be tolerated, tarried with, or “waited out.” The aim of the paper is to try to engage the grey area between medical intervention and non-intervention, where time in the clinic is offered in the service of helping people to wear out on their own terms.</p>","PeriodicalId":47649,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology Quarterly","volume":"40 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148253860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office By Ilana Gershon, Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2024, 175 pp.","authors":"Camille Kroll","doi":"10.1111/maq.70088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.70088","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47649,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology Quarterly","volume":"40 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148943715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Betwixt playing the waiting game and waiting in vain: Temporal governance and the thin alignment of care under universal health coverage in Kenya","authors":"Edwin Ambani Ameso","doi":"10.1111/maq.70074","DOIUrl":"10.1111/maq.70074","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article investigates how Kenyan citizens access healthcare within the framework of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) reforms. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, it reconceptualizes waiting as a politically structured phenomenon rather than a simple delay. The analysis shows that UHC reforms do not eliminate waiting but instead redistribute it, resulting in new bureaucratic bottlenecks, infrastructural limitations, and unpredictable care timelines. The concept of ‘thin alignment’ is introduced to characterize a temporally unstable condition in which endurance and improvisational strategies coexist as patients navigate fragmented healthcare systems. Individuals depend on kinship networks, informal payments, religious practices, and social connections to make their suffering visible and actionable. By emphasizing temporality, this article illustrates how UHC reconfigures access to care and informs broader discussions on infrastructure, inequality, and the politics of care.</p>","PeriodicalId":47649,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology Quarterly","volume":"40 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/maq.70074","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148151702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Covid's Chronicities: From Urgency to Stasis in a Pandemic Era By Lenore Manderson and Nancy J. Burke, eds. London: UCL Press, 2025, 405 pp.","authors":"Naomi Schoenfeld","doi":"10.1111/maq.70091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.70091","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47649,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology Quarterly","volume":"40 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148942294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Violence in harm reduction: Exploring the social, political, and emotional conditions of harm reduction work","authors":"Guillaume Dumont, Marie Jauffret-Roustide","doi":"10.1111/maq.70055","DOIUrl":"10.1111/maq.70055","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Harm reduction professionals strive to reduce the health, social, and legal consequences associated with drug use in contexts permeated by violence. Building on fieldwork in Paris and Barcelona, we examine how they make sense of this violence. In Paris, the discussion of violence primarily hinges on the narratives of suffering from people who use drugs and the obstacles posed by the political context. In Barcelona, the narrative emphasizes precariousness and deficiencies in organizational violence management, which intensifies perceptions of violence. Moving beyond polarized understandings of violence, we argue that violence is socially constructed as an inherent aspect of the culture of harm reduction work. This process involves mechanisms of naturalization, delegitimization, and normalization, shaping work experiences and the construction of the professional self. Although violence manifests in similar forms and manifestations across settings, experiences of that violence differ based on how it perpetuates power dynamics and inequalities within the workplace.</p>","PeriodicalId":47649,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology Quarterly","volume":"40 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145866049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breathing through the rage: Maternal refusal as ethnographic method","authors":"Lalaie Ameeriar","doi":"10.1111/maq.70031","DOIUrl":"10.1111/maq.70031","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article theorizes maternal rage as an ethnographic method and affective archive, drawing on interviews with birthing people of color navigating medical neglect, obstetric violence, and postpartum abandonment. Rather than treating rage as an excess or failure of care, I frame it as a form of witnessing and refusal, a bodily record of harm and survival. Situating these accounts within feminist anthropology, critical medical anthropology, and affect theory, I show how maternal rage exposes structural inequalities in reproductive care while resisting the institutional silencing of pain. The article argues for an expanded ethnographic practice attuned to affective residues, unruly testimony, and the nonlinear temporality of grief.</p>","PeriodicalId":47649,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology Quarterly","volume":"40 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/maq.70031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145490702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infertile Environments: Epigenetic Toxicology and the Reproductive Health of Chinese Men By Janelle Lamoreaux, Durham: Duke University Press, 2022, 135 pp.","authors":"Jiawei Liu","doi":"10.1111/maq.70089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.70089","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47649,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology Quarterly","volume":"40 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148943713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}