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Structural stigma and mental healthcare in Ghana: psychiatric nurses' perspectives. 加纳的结构性耻辱和精神保健：精神科护士的观点。

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Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2025-06-02 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2025.2508118

David Kofi Mensah, Michelle Anne Parsons

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Informed consent in the anthropology of psychosis. 精神病人类学中的知情同意。

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Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2025.2508119

Arnav Sethi

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Observing the observatory on race and health: reviewing 'health communications with (and for) Jewish communities'. 遵守种族与健康观察站：审查“与（和为）犹太社区进行的健康交流”。

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Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2025.2500101

Ben Kasstan-Dabush

{"title":"Observing the observatory on race and health: reviewing 'health communications with (and for) Jewish communities'.","authors":"Ben Kasstan-Dabush","doi":"10.1080/13648470.2025.2500101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2025.2500101","url":null,"abstract":"National Health Service England established the Race and Health Observatory as an independent expert body in 2021 to advance meaningful changes for Black and minority ethnic communities, patients, and healthcare professionals. It serves as a 'proactive investigator' by commissioning and facilitating research to achieve long-term transformation in health outcomes. However, medical anthropologists have largely overlooked the Observatory (and the research it commissions) in critical assessments of race and health. This commentary discusses the 2024 review into \"health communications with (and for) Jewish communities\" vis-à-vis the ethnographic record. On the one hand, the intention behind the Observatory's review is laudable because Jews have been excluded from critical discussions on race and health in the UK as well as the US and Europe. While the review has potential for rendering health inequality in Jewish communities visible, some of the overly general findings may lead to pitfalls and healthcare professionals may need additional guidance or support by establishing diverse steering groups. This comment argues that observing the Observatory on Race and Health is important to ensure accountability over its research and recommendations, and from a conceptual standpoint, to examine the evolving apparatus that shapes public and political reckonings with race, ethnicity and in/equality.","PeriodicalId":8240,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144075609","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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Reverence for suffering: medical anthropology beyond bodily devastation. 对苦难的敬畏：超越肉体毁灭的医学人类学。

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Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2025.2453364

James Wintrup

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Faltering care: why mothers experiencing homelessness in Dublin, Ireland, miss their childcare visits. 摇摇欲坠的照顾：为什么爱尔兰都柏林无家可归的母亲错过了他们的托儿服务。

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Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2025-03-21 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2025.2453363

Hannah Lucey

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Unveiling patienthood in psychiatric care: an ethnographic study in Nigeria. 揭示精神病护理中的病人身份：尼日利亚的人种学研究。

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Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2025.2453366

Timothy Olanrewaju Alabi

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Temporal curation: curating life in the anticipation of cancer. 时间管理：在癌症预期中管理生活。

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Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2024.2416800

Michal Frumer, Marie Louise Tørring, Rikke Sand Andersen

{"title":"Temporal curation: curating life in the anticipation of cancer.","authors":"Michal Frumer, Marie Louise Tørring, Rikke Sand Andersen","doi":"10.1080/13648470.2024.2416800","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13648470.2024.2416800","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores cancer as a 'total social fact', considering it both a specific material entity and an immaterial phenomenon with social, political, and legal implications. Based on long-term ethnographic field studies on cancer as anticipation in the Danish welfare state, specifically within lung cancer diagnostics and the surveillance for 'tissue changes', the paper explores how cancer is constituted and experienced. Analyzing this new and rising cancer phenomenon, the paper attends to scale by focusing analytically on three levels (national, institutional, and intersubjective) and conceptualizes how cancer manifests at these different levels through practices of temporal curation. Temporal curation is conceptually directed at understanding both how past, present, and future exist concurrently in the diagnostic space, and how cancer is produced, preserved, and brought into the future. Hence, this paper contributes to understandings of the modern in healthcare systems, specifically arguing for a shift in discussions on diagnostics beyond a narrow focus on classificatory processes to comprise how a diagnostic phenomenon becomes temporal and sociopolitical.","PeriodicalId":8240,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"371-387"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142765676","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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Collaborative ethnography and a call for pluralism and dialogic knowledge in health equity debates and global cancer research culture. 协作人种学，呼吁在卫生公平辩论和全球癌症研究文化中实现多元化和对话知识。

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Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-18 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2024.2416806

Natalia Luxardo

{"title":"Collaborative ethnography and a call for pluralism and dialogic knowledge in health equity debates and global cancer research culture.","authors":"Natalia Luxardo","doi":"10.1080/13648470.2024.2416806","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13648470.2024.2416806","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars in medical anthropology note that, despite more than 25 years of anthropological studies on cancer, much of this scholarship remains marginal in mainstream public health approaches. This paper examines social practices, biases, and unnoticed assumptions in mainstream global health research culture that prevents anthropology from having a more influential role in cancer research and policy agendas. It focuses on the day-to-day, ordinary, micro academic practices in which differential power distribution exacerbates inequity within the field, ignoring the role played by approaches with disciplinarian, epistemological and geopolitical peripheries. Inspired by a Bourdieusian epistemic reflexivity, this autoethnography systematized and analyzed through decolonial lenses some deterrents within real-world-research practices, including as the corpus own studies on cancer and inequalities studies that were based on collaborative ethnography (2013-2024). Six categories account for such deterrents in the global field: 1) Public health mainstream-centrism and the lack of recognition of anthropological knowledge principles; 2) Restrictive conception of ethics; 3) Similis Simili Gaudet biases - to be inclined to select what is alike; 4) Ethnocentric and naïve assumptions in relation to the road from evidence to practice; 5) Unconsidered dimensions of collaborations: Strengthening citizenship; 6) The moral economy of (only) professional trajectories interests and hidden priorities. It concludes by noting that anthropology has a lot to provide in the search for a genuinely democratic, plural, and decentralized knowledge in global cancer equity debates strengthening paradigms of dialogue, still so fragile and invisible in the field of cancer and public health in general.","PeriodicalId":8240,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"388-405"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142852135","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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A matter of balance. Positioning of parents' selves through negotiations of symptoms' meaning at a pain clinic for children/young people. 平衡问题。在儿童/青少年疼痛门诊中，通过对症状意义的协商来定位父母的自我。

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Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2024.2373013

Sara Seerup Laursen

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The impact of stigma on the LGBTQ patient care experience and health outcomes in the United States. 污名对美国LGBTQ患者护理经验和健康结果的影响。

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Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-05 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2024.2416802

Jay S Pickern

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