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How to Categorise Disease? Endometriosis, Inflammation, and ‘Self Out of Place’ 如何对疾病进行分类？子宫内膜异位症、炎症和 "自我失调

Medicine anthropology theory Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.17157/mat.11.1.7390

Andrea Lilly Ford

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Bio-imaginaries: ‘Biologics’, Bricolage, and the Making of Pharmaceutical Knowledge 生物想象："生物制品"、混杂和制药知识的形成

Medicine anthropology theory Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.17157/mat.11.1.7244

Jonas Kure Buer

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Mapping Microbial Selves: Field Notes from a Dirty Parenting Project 绘制微生物自我：肮脏父母项目的现场笔记

Medicine anthropology theory Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.17157/mat.11.1.7057

Beth Joanna Greenhough, Maaret Jokela-Pansini, Eben Kirksey, Jamie Lorimer

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Relations as Immunity: Building Community Resilience 关系即免疫力：建设社区复原力

Medicine anthropology theory Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.17157/mat.11.1.7266

Martha Kenney, Ruth Müller

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The Immune System, Immunity and Immune Logics: Troubling Fixed Boundaries and (Re)conceptualizing Relations 免疫系统、免疫和免疫逻辑：扰乱固定界限和（重新）概念化关系

Medicine anthropology theory Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.17157/mat.11.1.9443

Andrea Ford, Julia Swallow

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Anticipating Immunity: Vaccine-induced Immunity and Vaccine Safety in the Finnish News Coverage of COVID-19 Vaccines 预期免疫：芬兰有关 COVID-19 疫苗的新闻报道中的疫苗诱导免疫和疫苗安全问题

Medicine anthropology theory Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.17157/mat.11.1.7262

Venla Oikkonen

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Pandemic Life-lines: A Multimodal Autoethnography of COVID-19 Illness, Isolation, and Shared Immunities 大流行病的生命线：COVID-19 疾病、隔离和共同免疫的多模式自述

Medicine anthropology theory Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.17157/mat.11.1.7359

Angela Marques Filipe

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'You Become Pretty Much a Healthcare Worker': The Parenting of a Child with Inherited Metabolic Disease and its Metaphors “你几乎成了一名医护人员”:一个患有遗传性代谢疾病的孩子的养育及其隐喻

Medicine anthropology theory Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.17157/mat.10.3.6702

Filip Rogalski

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The Tide of Open Access 开放获取的浪潮

Medicine anthropology theory Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.17157/mat.10.3.9079

MAT Editorial Collective

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Screening Charity Recipients: Health Philanthropy, Medical Diagnosis, and Kidney Disease Prevention in Sri Lanka 筛选慈善受助人:斯里兰卡的健康慈善、医疗诊断和肾脏疾病预防

Medicine anthropology theory Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.17157/mat.10.3.7764

Upul Kumara Wickramasinghe

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