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Diagnosing child maltreatment in a welfare state: the dual role of Danish general practitioners in child protection. 福利国家的儿童虐待诊断：丹麦全科医生在儿童保护中的双重角色。

IF 1 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2026-10-06 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2026.2687245

Camilla Hoffmann Merrild

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Articulations of poisoning: historicity, relationality, and contextuality of Chlordecone pollution in the French Antilles. 中毒的表述：法属安的列斯群岛十氯酮污染的历史性、相关性和背景性。

IF 1 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2026-10-06 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2026.2687249

Giorgio Brocco, Aminata Cécile Mbaye

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Sourness in the flesh: cultural shaping of somatic experience in Mandarin Chinese. 肉中的酸味：普通话中躯体体验的文化塑造。

IF 1 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2026-09-29 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2026.2687241

Shuping Huang, Chih-Cheng Chen

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Care and precarity: potentials of a conceptual couple for the anthropology of health and illness. 关怀和不稳定：健康和疾病人类学的一对概念夫妇的潜力。

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Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2026-09-28 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2026.2687243

Giuseppe Troccoli

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Knowing or not knowing: the practical and moral complexity of diagnostic-seeking pathways in situations of medical uncertainty. 知道或不知道：在医疗不确定的情况下寻求诊断途径的实际和道德复杂性。

IF 1 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2026-09-25 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2026.2709278

Cinzia Greco, Sally Cross

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Not paper people: application forms as ethical stories at the wellbeing garden. 不是纸上谈兵：申请表是幸福花园的道德故事。

IF 1 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2026-09-23 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2026.2709276

Rosie Jones McVey

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'A esa ya la destriparon': ñuu savii reproductive care practices against narratives towards the clinic in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca, Mexico. “A esa ya la destriparon”：ñuu拯救生殖保健实践，反对墨西哥瓦哈卡州Mixteca Alta诊所的叙述。

IF 1 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2026-09-23 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2026.2687369

Esther Regina Neira Castro

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First, do no harm? Agency, autonomy and wound/body ownership in grassroots self-injury support in the UK. 第一，不伤害吗？代理，自主性和伤口/身体所有权在英国基层自伤支持。

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Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2026-09-23 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2026.2716582

Bella Barrett

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Feeling ill, not harmed: a phenomenological account of the long-term experience of false-positive breast cancer screening. 感觉生病，而不是受到伤害：假阳性乳腺癌筛查的长期经历的现象学描述。

IF 1 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2026-09-22 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2026.2687248

Emma Grundtvig Gram, John Brandt Brodersen, Brooke Nickel, Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson

{"title":"Feeling ill, not harmed: a phenomenological account of the long-term experience of false-positive breast cancer screening.","authors":"Emma Grundtvig Gram, John Brandt Brodersen, Brooke Nickel, Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson","doi":"10.1080/13648470.2026.2687248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2026.2687248","url":null,"abstract":"Scholarship has highlighted how the identification of breast cancer risk and false-positive screening results operate as modes of governance that shape subjects and extend the reach of medicine. Building upon this work, this article offers a phenomenologically-informed analysis of women's experiences of false-positive results in breast cancer screening, examining how such encounters with risk and the possibility of disease are lived and carried into everyday life. Based on ethnographic interviews with women who received false-positive results approximately 18 to 20 years previously, this study focuses on their narratives of receiving and living with a false-positive result over time. Drawing on narrative approaches and a focus on temporality, we analyse how women navigate the tensions of proximity to a potentially life-threatening disease through embodied experiences of risk, and how they seek to sustain meaningful lives in the wake of this uncertainty through narration. This study sheds light on the long-term impact of receiving false-positive screening results, demonstrating how such experiences can threaten notions of health while also generating appreciation and opportunities for personal and emotional growth. We suggest that the long-term accounts extend existing theoretical works on false-positive results, which has tended to emphasise the immediate emotional responses and shifts in risk perceptions as forms of biomedical harm. In contrast, these accounts enrich biomedical definitions of harm with experiential understandings of harm that feature both medicalised narratives, opportunities for reflection and personal growth, and ambiguous states of feeling ill but not feeling harmed.","PeriodicalId":8240,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149015367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Trafficking harm: extractivism and tree affordances in the southwestern borderlands of Iran. 贩运危害：伊朗西南边境地区的采伐和树木供应。

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Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2026-09-21 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2026.2687247

Sana Chavoshian, Hilal Alkan

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