Anthropology & MedicinePub Date : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-10-22DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2024.2378731
Marian Burchardt, Edwin Ameso
{"title":"Bloodstream: notes towards an anthropology of digital logistics in healthcare.","authors":"Marian Burchardt, Edwin Ameso","doi":"10.1080/13648470.2024.2378731","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13648470.2024.2378731","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Based on ethnographic research in northern Ghana, this article explores the complex logistics of blood and the ways in which the availability of blood has been transformed through the introduction of drones. We explore how drone services affect this ecosystem of supply and contribute to reshaping the practices of physicians, nurses, facility pharmacists and stock managers, as well as the expectations and experiences of patients and their families. Situated at the interface of medical anthropology, critical studies of infrastructure and anthropological studies of digital innovations in healthcare, our paper attends to the emerging anthropological research on medical logistics as a means of connecting people with medical resources. It demonstrates the fundamentally ambivalent nature of technological innovation: on the one hand, drones have fueled health workers' hopes and transformed access to blood. On the other hand, their introduction has also led to connectivity without stock. In line with STS scholarship, we highlight the important role of the physical properties of objects such as blood in shaping their circulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":8240,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"215-231"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142456777","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}
Anthropology & MedicinePub Date : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-10-24DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2024.2378730
Mary F E Ebeling
{"title":"Phantom data and the potentials of radical caretaking in reproductive health.","authors":"Mary F E Ebeling","doi":"10.1080/13648470.2024.2378730","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13648470.2024.2378730","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The potentials of digital health to improve health outcomes by empowering patients with more control over their health data have transformed into threats of criminalization in the post-<i>Roe</i> era, threats that are creating serious, and at times deadly, harms to patients and the providers that care for them. While patients' health data are increasingly used to criminalize healthcare, data activists, legislators, and lawyers are engaged in radical caretaking strategies to protect health data, patients, and abortion care providers.</p>","PeriodicalId":8240,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"313-327"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142493629","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}
Anthropology & MedicinePub Date : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-11-26DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2024.2425601
Daniel Miller
{"title":"What just happened? Ethnography as audit.","authors":"Daniel Miller","doi":"10.1080/13648470.2024.2425601","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13648470.2024.2425601","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>By the time the results of an ethnography are published it almost inevitably becomes an audit of What Just Happened. The papers in this special issue reveal three insights that follow from this. An audit of the unenvisaged consequences of digital health interventions, an audit of envisaged consequences and an appreciation of the importance of context as the determinant of those consequences.</p>","PeriodicalId":8240,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"328-334"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142715300","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}
{"title":"Gut Anthro: an experiment in thinking with microbes","authors":"Rosie Mathers","doi":"10.1080/13648470.2024.2343643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2024.2343643","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Anthropology & Medicine (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":8240,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Medicine","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140939021","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}
{"title":"Belly Woman: Birth, Blood & Ebola: The Untold Story","authors":"Adrienne E. Strong","doi":"10.1080/13648470.2024.2343644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2024.2343644","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Anthropology & Medicine (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":8240,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Medicine","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140939248","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}
{"title":"Jointly enclosed in-between: the collective meaning of liminality in refugees’ and other migrants’ mental health care","authors":"Laura Peter","doi":"10.1080/13648470.2024.2339705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2024.2339705","url":null,"abstract":"People on the move are increasingly immobilised between and within state borders, having left ‘there’ but not allowed to be fully ‘here’. This paper presents a nuanced examination of this state of ...","PeriodicalId":8240,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Medicine","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140571827","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}
Anthropology & MedicinePub Date : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2024-02-12DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2274710
Anna Dowrick, Kaveri Qureshi, Tanvi Rai
{"title":"Negotiating un/sanitary citizenship: the reception of UK government COVID-19 public health messaging by racialised people highly exposed to infection.","authors":"Anna Dowrick, Kaveri Qureshi, Tanvi Rai","doi":"10.1080/13648470.2023.2274710","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13648470.2023.2274710","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Governments across the world differently invoked citizen responsibility for responding to the risk of COVID-19 infection. Approaches which focused on changing social practices served to reinforce distinctions between 'sanitary' and 'unsanitary' citizenship. This paper examines citizens' responses to public health policy messaging, exploring as a case study the reception of UK Government messaging about responsible behaviour during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. We examine the public responses to such messaging from narrative interviews with 43 people who became ill with COVID-19. These interviews were with people who identified as members of the minoritised religious and racialised groups, who were most heavily burdened by the impact of COVID-19. Interviewees challenged assumptions that they were 'irresponsible' for having caught COVID-19, and instead directed attention towards the ways in which pandemic guidance was unworkable. Some actively critiqued government messaging, questioning the problematic racialisation of pandemic messaging and challenging individual responsibilisation for the management of the pandemic. Through this analysis we demonstrate the active role of citizens in enacting, and at times resisting, health policy.</p>","PeriodicalId":8240,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"104-119"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139721354","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}
Anthropology & MedicinePub Date : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2242280
Lorelei Jones
{"title":"Governing healthcare: the uses and limits of governmentality in the National Health Service in England.","authors":"Lorelei Jones","doi":"10.1080/13648470.2023.2242280","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13648470.2023.2242280","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using examples from the National Health Service in England, this paper illustrates key features of contemporary healthcare governance: the way decisions are hidden in places that are 'in between' and 'out of reach'; the enrolment of doctors in governing; and the important role played by 'boring things', such as power point slides, flow charts, and forms. The essay shows how anthropological proximity and perspectives can extend and deepen understanding of contemporary political power. It does this firstly by showing the importance of agency in the operation of governmentality, and secondly by illuminating the limits of governmentality. The different elements of governing assemblages, such as global management experts, medical leaders, forms of knowledge and analytical technologies, are brought together through the strategic act of framing. Frames are contested and resisted, requiring more visible forms of control.</p>","PeriodicalId":8240,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"51-68"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11458124/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41097187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anthropology & MedicinePub Date : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2254274
Ayaz Qureshi
{"title":"HIV prevention and public morality in Pakistan: the secular normativity of development.","authors":"Ayaz Qureshi","doi":"10.1080/13648470.2023.2254274","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13648470.2023.2254274","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Religious leaders, development experts and state officials in Pakistan were brought together on shared platforms to negotiate a morally-appropriate but scientifically informed response to HIV. Instead of dialogue and negotiation in line with the secular ideal of development, the moral authority of the religious figure compelled others to forefront the conservative in them, thereby undermining the goal of HIV prevention in the country. The everyday practices of state officials and health experts were already infused with Islamic public morality but the inclusion of religious leaders resulted in acceptance of their conservative position on HIV, gender and sexuality. Through the case study of an Inter-Religious Council on HIV, I argue that intervention strategies which specifically involve religious leaders end up enabling systematic marginalization of those who are already at a greater risk of HIV.</p>","PeriodicalId":8240,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"35-50"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71420210","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}
Anthropology & MedicinePub Date : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2274684
Rachel Irwin
{"title":"Politics, law and a lack of sperm: single women and fertility treatment in the Swedish health system.","authors":"Rachel Irwin","doi":"10.1080/13648470.2023.2274684","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13648470.2023.2274684","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 2016 Swedish law was amended to allow single women to access fertility treatment with donor sperm. In this paper, based on interviews, document analysis and autoethnographic insights, I examine the implementation of this law using human rights approaches, specifically the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality framework (AAAQ Framework). While the law extended the scope of reproductive rights, the health system was unprepared. Five years on, women seek care in the private sector or continue to travel abroad due in large part to waiting times which can be up to four years in some regions. The paper also provides a meeting point between anthropology and policy analysis. The law change provides a pathway for analyzing the Swedish health system and political context, particularly the relationships between the private and public sectors and between different regions, and the balance of responsibility between national and regional levels. While many of the challenges are unique to the Swedish context, they also offer lessons for countries which have or are considering expanding access to fertility treatment for single women and other patient groups, thus demonstrating the importance of ethnographic approaches in health policy analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":8240,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"89-103"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139970838","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}