{"title":"A Tale of Two Surrogates: A Graphic Narrative on Assisted Reproduction By Elly Teman and Zsuzsa Berend, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2025, 208 pp.","authors":"Amal Sana Faizal","doi":"10.1111/maq.70092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.70092","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":"148943714","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}
Amanda Kearney, John Bradley, Dinah Norman a-Marrngawi, Mavis Timothy a-Muluwamara
{"title":"Medical pluralism and kincentric care in Indigenous Australia: Yanyuwa experiences of illness and the importance of keeping company","authors":"Amanda Kearney, John Bradley, Dinah Norman a-Marrngawi, Mavis Timothy a-Muluwamara","doi":"10.1111/maq.70046","DOIUrl":"10.1111/maq.70046","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For over four decades we have collaborated as a team of anthropologists and Indigenous Elders of the Yanyuwa language group. The Yanyuwa are the Indigenous owners of lands and waters in Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria. While medicalized healthcare has not been our specific research focus, wellness and ill health have been recurring themes. Death has been tragically prevalent. So too has been a sense of liveliness among households in the remote township of Borroloola. This paper explores ethnographic moments that speak to how Yanyuwa experience illness, as a bodily, relational, and communal possibility. Building out from these, we reflect on how people in this community seek to survive, in part, through kincentric relationality: the art of <i>keeping company</i>. Reflecting on culturally nuanced responses to illness supports anthropological engagements with connections that heal and those that pose a threat, offering some insights to progress efforts in medical pluralism and kincentric 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.70046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145858214","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":"Time, place, person: Field epidemiology as a political practice.","authors":"Luisa Enria","doi":"10.1111/maq.70097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.70097","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Five years after the end of the Ebola epidemic, a district in Sierra Leone received a measles alert. This article tells the story of the epidemic that followed and the response that was mounted in the context of the new global epidemic preparedness and biosecurity paradigms that govern the management of health emergencies. Focusing on the daily encounters that constitute outbreak investigations and the narratives, negotiations and contestations that emerge from these interactions, allows us to envision field epidemiology as a political practice. This means seeing how global epidemiological logics converge with local politics and forms of exclusion. Efforts to make epidemics knowable and responding to them, then, reshape political relations, governing citizens and ordering relations between levels of public health governance. At the same time, as field epidemiological work becomes entangled in local political negotiations, it also generates new spaces for contestation, resistance and repair.</p>","PeriodicalId":47649,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"e70097"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148921182","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":"Transing the archive: Toward a trans-autistic historiography of neurodivergent futures.","authors":"Jesica R Bates","doi":"10.1111/maq.70096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.70096","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article advances transing the archive as a methodological intervention into how autism's canonical history became institutionally secured through archival processes operating within clinical and bureaucratic regimes, not simply through omission. Drawing on archival and digital ethnographic research, I trace how translation hierarchies, citation regimes, and diagnostic inscription consolidated particular clinicians and deficit framings while marginalizing more relational figures such as Grunya Sukhareva and Anni Weiss. I argue that these processes function as recognition infrastructures, shaping what becomes documentable, citable, and actionable across institutional systems. I analyze autistic digital counter-archives-hashtag recirculation, annotation, and diagnostic reinterpretation-as patterned historiographical work that intervenes by re-translating, re-citing, and re-inscribing medical knowledge. By reframing archives as contested infrastructures, this article extends medical anthropology's engagement with evidence, temporality, and epistemic authority.</p>","PeriodicalId":47649,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"e70096"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148913897","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":"Policing the safety net: Medical and carceral management of violence in a Los Angeles County public hospital.","authors":"Emily Virginia Jones","doi":"10.1111/maq.70098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.70098","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Medical anthropologists have long shown how hospitals function as spaces of both care and control, yet the entanglement of policing and trauma care remains understudied. This paper offers an ethnographic account of how trauma surgeons in a Los Angeles County hospital navigate the embedded presence of police within their clinical work. Drawing from ethnographic data alongside the historical and political development of county hospitals, I show how the presence of police produces a latent threat of violence and criminalization in high acuity clinical situations that imprints itself on clinical decision-making. These everyday interactions reveal how trauma care is shaped by overlapping regimes of authority, in which care and violence are mutually entangled rather than opposed, and the boundaries between healing and harm remain unstable.</p>","PeriodicalId":47649,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"e70098"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148913796","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}
Megan D Cogburn, Emma Hanley, Jacob Roman, Adrienne E Strong
{"title":"\"The pain is not real, it's feki\": Recognizing pain, gender, and structural inequalities in a Tanzanian hospital.","authors":"Megan D Cogburn, Emma Hanley, Jacob Roman, Adrienne E Strong","doi":"10.1111/maq.70095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.70095","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pain always begs a response, yet biomedical providers everywhere struggle with how to know and respond to pain. Based on collaborative ethnographic work in a Tanzanian hospital, we explore healthcare workers' sociocultural perceptions of pain and pain care practices to show how pain is recognized and distinguished in the busy clinical setting. Influenced by the socially productive nature and potential of fakes, we present the category of feki pain as a way healthcare workers negotiated care within a context of biomedical scarcity and sociocultural values that make it difficult to express and recognize pain of all kinds. The category of feki pain highlights both the difficulty that pain presents to low-resource healthcare systems and the possibility to recognize and respond to the structural nature of women's pain.</p>","PeriodicalId":47649,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"e70095"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148907512","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":"Diet and leishmaniasis in the Ecuadorian Amazon.","authors":"Veronica Cristina Vargas Roman","doi":"10.1111/maq.70093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.70093","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In Ecuador's Amazon, Indigenous communities affected by leishmaniasis often modify their diets as part of their health-seeking practices. Drawing on qualitative research with sixty-eight participants from seven Indigenous groups, this study explores how and why patients' diets shift in pursuit of healing from leishmaniasis. Participants understand therapeutic diets holistically, including food recommendations, preparation methods, and social behaviors believed to influence disease progression. Across groups, dietary logics of therapeutic efficacy often reflect analogical reasoning, a form of relational ontology in which the qualities of foods are believed to act upon the body through correspondence rather than causality in the disease's symptoms. Therapeutic dieting operates not only as a health-seeking practice but also politically, as a mechanism of moral and social regulation within the space of (self-)care. This study invites medical practitioners working in Amazonian contexts to engage with non-physiological logics of healing efficacy to enhance culturally responsive care and patient well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":47649,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"e70093"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148888651","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":"All in the family: Kidney donation in aging Japan.","authors":"Amy Borovoy","doi":"10.1111/maq.70094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.70094","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines the ethical and cultural logics shaping living donor kidney transplantation in Japan, where donation is restricted to kin and deceased donation remains rare. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Tokyo-area hospital, it analyzes how Japan's kin-based transplantation regime contrasts with the utilitarian model dominant in the United States, where donor pools are expanded through non-kin and anonymous exchange. I argue that Japan's restriction to family donors reflects an ethic of care rooted in family-based welfare and intergenerational reciprocity. At the same time, the desire to prevent the exploitation of non-kin transfers the burden of giving onto family, in particular aging parents, spouses, and women, stretching traditional kinship obligations. It also privileges \"social matching\" over biological compatibility.</p>","PeriodicalId":47649,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"e70094"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148799580","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":"Inoculating whiteness: Vaccines, racial formation, and settler colonial immunity on Lingít Aaní.","authors":"Adam Kersch","doi":"10.1111/maq.70087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.70087","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In settler colonial contexts, health interventions are often sites for contesting authority, belonging, and protection. On Lingít Aaní, colonial responses to infectious disease illustrate how vaccination and public health practices produced racial hierarchies and secured white futurity by exposing Tlingit people to biomedical extraction, risk, and surveillance. I conceptualize this dynamic as inoculating whiteness, a situated analytic for understanding how immunological interventions shielded settler bodies from biological and political threat while exposing Indigenous bodies to experimentation, surveillance, and managed vulnerability. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research on colonial public health based in Sheet'ká, this article examines how inoculating whiteness operated during COVID-19 before tracing its genealogy through smallpox vaccination under Russian colonialism and BCG experimentation and tuberculosis sanatoria under U.S. governance. It argues public health has been instrumental to settler colonial governance and racialization and highlights Tlingit practices of collective care that articulate alternative frameworks for health and sovereignty.</p>","PeriodicalId":47649,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"e70087"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148370359","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":"\"They need to get a new program\": Experiential frictions with the gender of care in the 12 step program for ethnically Mexican women.","authors":"Ellen E Kozelka","doi":"10.1111/maq.70084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.70084","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using gender as an analytic, I parse out how the historical gendered, classed, and racialized roots of the 12 Step Program remain present in its therapeutic model, even in global contexts beyond its original formulation. These foundations continue to shape therapeutic logics and experience within the Program, in positive and negative ways. I outline several key experiential points of friction with the 12 Step Program for women in one residential drug rehabilitation center in the United States-México border zone, demonstrating the gender of this therapeutic model's framework. Clarifying the Program's gender of care helps make sense of why so many women find this therapeutic model inadequate, without discounting the very real support 12 Step Programs have provided to both women and men around the world. Attention to these frictions with structures (in this case a therapeutic model) illuminates the implicit frameworks that organize our world and direct our attention to developing novel frameworks/institutions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47649,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"e70084"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148354229","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}