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'We Still Living': The Digital Media and Fake-talk around COVID-19 in Tanzania “我们还活着”:坦桑尼亚围绕COVID-19的数字媒体和虚假言论

Medicine anthropology theory Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.17157/mat.10.3.7281

John Keketso Peete

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Fluid Fakes, Contested Counterfeits: The World Health Organization’s Engagement with Fake Drugs, 1948–2017 液体假药，有争议的假药:1948-2017年世界卫生组织与假药的接触

Medicine anthropology theory Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.17157/mat.10.3.7234

Christopher J. Sirrs

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The Long Shadow of Fake Drugs and the Social Lives of Fake-ness 假药的漫长阴影与假药的社会生活

Medicine anthropology theory Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.17157/mat.10.3.9065

Sarah Hodges, Julia Hornberger

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Writing our Futures Possible: Inspirations from the Dementia Letter Project 让我们的未来成为可能:来自痴呆症信件项目的启示

Medicine anthropology theory Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.17157/mat.10.3.7816

Annelieke Driessen, Hannah Cowan

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Fake-talk, Side Effects and the Trouble with Hormonal Contraceptives among Women in Dar es Salaam 达累斯萨拉姆妇女使用激素避孕药的假话、副作用和麻烦

Medicine anthropology theory Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.17157/mat.10.3.7277

Rhoda Mkazi Bandora

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Fake-talk as Concept and Method 作为概念和方法的假言

Medicine anthropology theory Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.17157/mat.10.3.7291

Julia Hornberger, Sarah Hodges

引用次数: 2

Making Sense of New Disease Categories: Naming, Spatialising, and Serialising in Genomic Medicine 理解新的疾病类别:基因组医学中的命名、空间化和序列化

Medicine anthropology theory Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.17157/mat.10.3.6686

Laura Emdal Navne

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Thinking the Self through Hooks, Needles, and Scalpels: Body Suspensions, Tattoos, and other Body Modifications 通过钩子、针和手术刀思考自我:身体悬吊、纹身和其他身体修饰

Medicine anthropology theory Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.17157/mat.10.3.6532

Federica Manfredi

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Fake-talk and the Spaza Shop: A Fake Food Furore and the Spectre of Public Health Emergencies in South Africa 假言论和Spaza商店:南非的假食品狂潮和突发公共卫生事件的幽灵

Medicine anthropology theory Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.17157/mat.10.3.7136

Julia Hornberger, Sarah Hodges, Edmore Chitukutuku

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Sub-standard or Sub-legal? Distribution, Pharma Dossiers, and Fake-talk in India 不合标准还是不合法律?印度的分销、制药档案和假话

Medicine anthropology theory Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.17157/mat.10.3.7279

Nishpriha Thakur

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