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Chronic relationships and mental health care: global pharmaceuticals in a local healing shrine in India. 慢性关系和精神保健:印度当地治疗圣地的全球药品。

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2212212

Shubha Ranganathan

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Weeping wombs: Leucorrhea and the chronicity of distress in Gilgit-Baltistan. 哭泣的子宫:白带和吉尔吉特-巴尔蒂斯坦的慢性痛苦。

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2020.1865037

Emma Varley

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Chronic illness in South Asia: rethinking discourses of risk, evidence, and control. 南亚慢性病:重新思考风险、证据和控制的话语。

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2202055

Shubha Ranganathan

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"Initially, medicines will be given, and then we need to study the case": Medicalized perspectives about chronicity and mental health care in Kerala. “最初，将提供药物，然后我们需要研究病例”:喀拉拉邦慢性病和精神卫生保健的医学观点。

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2212206

Sudarshan R Kottai, Shubha Ranganathan

{"title":"\"Initially, medicines will be given, and then we need to study the case\": Medicalized perspectives about chronicity and mental health care in Kerala.","authors":"Sudarshan R Kottai, Shubha Ranganathan","doi":"10.1080/13648470.2023.2212206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2023.2212206","url":null,"abstract":"In response to the global call to upscale mental health services in low--income countries, mental health non-governmental organisations (MHNGOs) have sprung up in Kerala to address mental health needs by partnering with pre-existing locally grown, bottom-up, community-led pain and palliative clinics (PPCs) to increase access to mental health care through task-shifting. The MHNGOs mandate filtering only patients with 'severe mental disorders' from low socioeconomic backgrounds for their free services. This eligibility criterion mandated by the MHNGO is ruffling feathers within the palliative clinics that oppose such -classifications. They believe that suffering cuts across all divisions and should not be discriminated against based on economic background and severity of illnesses. When chronicity and suffering are held universal by the MHNGO and palliative care, respectively, it brings to the fore the enactment of two perspectives of care. Drawing on observations of clinical interactions between patients, MHNGO staff and mental health professionals and interviews with community volunteers of palliative care clinics in Kerala, this paper demonstrates how chronicity narrative promoted by MHNGOs based on biopsychiatric model gains hegemony, whereas the community care model loses traction progressively. The state, caught between these two narratives, frontstages development by submitting its health machinery to the MHNGOs flouting basic medical safety laws in its services to marginalised people like the tribal population. This paper argues that the rising dominance of chronicity narrative in community mental health clinics as well as in popular media discourses evolves out of power relations between the MHNGOs and the palliative clinics.","PeriodicalId":8240,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Medicine","volume":"30 2","pages":"153-170"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9631528","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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Imaginaries of a laparoscope: power, convenience, and sterilization in rural India. 想象中的腹腔镜:印度农村的力量、便利和消毒。

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2022.2152634

Eva Fiks

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The unsanitary other and racism during the pandemic: analysis of purity discourses on social media in India, France and United States of America during the COVID-19 pandemic. 大流行期间的不卫生他人与种族主义:对2019冠状病毒病大流行期间印度、法国和美利坚合众国社交媒体上的纯粹性言论的分析

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2180259

Christian Desmarais, Melissa Roy, Minh Thi Nguyen, Vivek Venkatesh, Cecile Rousseau

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Bodies and orientations. Perspectives and strategies among service users in psychosocial rehabilitation housing facilities in Denmark. 身体和方向。丹麦社会心理康复住房设施服务使用者的观点和策略。

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2181573

Anne Mia Steno

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'Small' data, isolated populations, and new categories of rare diseases in Finland and Poland. 芬兰和波兰的“小”数据、孤立人群和罕见疾病新类别。

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2022.2152633

Małgorzata Rajtar

{"title":"'Small' data, isolated populations, and new categories of rare diseases in Finland and Poland.","authors":"Małgorzata Rajtar","doi":"10.1080/13648470.2022.2152633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2022.2152633","url":null,"abstract":"Health policy and academic discourses on rare diseases and people with rare conditions frequently employ terms such as 'low prevalence' and 'unique' to characterize the smallness of the population under consideration and to justify targeted action toward these patient groups. This paper draws from recent anthropological scholarship on smallness and data, ethnographic research in Finland and Poland, as well as document and media analysis to examine how data is utilized in the context of isolated populations that are considered sites of rare diseases in these two countries. Specifically, this paper juxtaposes the notion of Finnish Disease Heritage (FDH) with that of a 'Kashubian gene' in Poland. The concept of FDH was developed by Finnish researchers in the 1970s; it encompasses almost forty rare hereditary diseases that are significantly more prevalent in Finland than elsewhere globally. On the other hand, the notion of the 'Kashubian gene' was first utilized by the media and some members of the Polish medical community around 2008. Based on 'unstable' data gathered during genetic research, the term referred to the high prevalence of a rare metabolic disorder (Long-Chain 3-Hydroxyacyl-CoA Dehydrogenase (LCHAD) deficiency) among Kashubians, an ethnic minority that resides in Northern Poland's Pomerania region. Whereas FDH facilitated the production and branding of 'a unique Finnish genetic identity' (Tupasela 2016b, 61), the notion of the 'Kashubian gene' has engendered health policy interventions targeting members of this ethnic minority and has contributed to stigmatizing practices carried out against Kashubians.","PeriodicalId":8240,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Medicine","volume":"30 1","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9164671","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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'Only parents can understand the problems and needs of children with thalassaemia': parental activism for thalassaemia care in Northern India. “只有父母才能理解地中海贫血儿童的问题和需求”:印度北部地中海贫血护理的父母行动主义。

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2180258

Maya Unnithan, Chhaya Pachauli, Sangeeta Chattoo, Karl Atkin

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Biomedical treatment and divine assistance: complementary reproductive itineraries among catholic women users of assisted reproduction technology in Argentina. 生物医学治疗和神的帮助:阿根廷天主教妇女辅助生殖技术使用者的辅助生殖行程。

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2022.2144804

Ana Lucia Olmos Alvarez, María Cecilia Johnson

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