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Author(s):  
Alice Street ◽  
Ann H. Kelly

Introduction to the Special Issue on Diagnostics, Medical testing, and Value


2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Merrill Singer ◽  
Nicola Bulled ◽  
Bayla Ostrach ◽  
Shir Lerman Ginzburg

In this review, we trace the origins and dissemination of syndemics, a concept developed within critical medical anthropology that rapidly diffused to other fields. The goal is to provide a review of the literature, with a focus on key debates. After a brief discussion of the nature and significance of syndemic theory and its applications, we trace the history and development of the syndemic framework within anthropology and the contributions of anthropologists who use it. We also look beyond anthropology to the adoption and use of syndemics in other health-related disciplines, including biomedicine, nursing, public health, and psychology, and discuss controversies in syndemics, particularly the perception that existing syndemics research focuses on methodologies at the individual level rather than at the population level and fails to provide evidence of synergistic interactions. Finally, we discuss emerging syndemics research on COVID-19 and provide an overview of the application of syndemics research.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-65
Author(s):  
Alexa S. Dietrich

The materiality of pollution is increasingly embodied in humans, animals, and the living environment. Ethnographic research, especially from within the fields broadly construed as medical anthropology, environmental anthropology, disaster anthropology, and science and technology studies are all positioned to make important contributions to understanding present lived experiences in disastrous environmental contexts. This article examines points of articulation within recent research in these areas, which have much in common but are not always in conversation with one another. Research and writing collaborations, as well as shared knowledge bases between ethnographic researchers who center different aspects of the spectrum of toxics- based environmental health, are needed to better account for and address the material and lived realities of increasing pollution levels in the time of a warming climate.


2021 ◽  
pp. 100-126
Author(s):  
David Lloyd Dusenbury

This chapter argues that the physiological and psychological chapters of Nemesius’ treatise are not random memoranda on the human organism or disjecta membra taken from a range of late-antique sources. On the contrary, it is claimed here that Human Nature 6‒28, where the medical anthropology of the Platonic–Galenic tradition comes to the fore, mark a decisive phase in Nemesius’ argument. The human is defined by the bishop as the only living being which is at once ruler (intellect) and ruled (body). In Human Nature 6‒28, this image of humankind is given an anatomical proof. Nemesius describes the parts of the human body as organs of the soul by means of which—by a divine logic which is obscured, but not negated by injury and pathology—the soul’s government of the body is realized.


10.2196/28555 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. e28555
Author(s):  
Ellen Elizabeth Kozelka ◽  
Janis H Jenkins ◽  
Elizabeth Carpenter-Song

Digital health engenders the opportunity to create new effective mental health care models—from substance use recovery to suicide prevention. Anthropological methodologies offer a unique opportunity for the field of global mental health to examine and incorporate contextual mental health needs through attention to the lived experience of illness; engagement with communities; and knowledge of context, structures, and systems. Attending to these diverse mental health needs and conditions as well as the limitations of digital health will allow global mental health researchers, practitioners, and patients to collaboratively create new models for care in the service of equitable, accessible recovery.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitriy Mihel'

The textbook sets out the goals and objectives of medical anthropology as an interdisciplinary field of scientific knowledge, discusses the range of its main problems. The most significant subject areas of the discipline are considered: health and disease in the context of culture, healing systems (traditional medicine and biomedicine), humanitarian problems of reproductive and mental health, etc. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. For researchers, teachers and students of humanitarian and medical universities studying under bachelor's and master's programs, anyone interested in medical anthropology.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 313
Author(s):  
Uliana Esteves

Resenha da coletânea Critical Medical Anthropology: Perspectives in and from Latin America, editada por J. Gamlin et al, publicada em 2020.


2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-26
Author(s):  
Inês Faria

This article addresses the challenges and reflections of a junior anthropologist while developing research on the delicate topic of reproductive health and infertility in Maputo, Mozambique. Based on participant observation notes, entries in fieldwork diaries, and interviews, and assuming the character of a reflexive ethnographic account, the article concerns personal and research challenges and opportunities experienced during the preparation and development of a research project and a PhD thesis. While reflecting more broadly on processes of knowledge production, history and colonial relations, and on the writing of a scientific account, it provides insights into the pragmatics of research in medical anthropology by detailing the everyday life of doing ethnography, including networking, bureaucratic processes, boredom, the exploration of new fieldwork landscapes, and positionality dilemmas.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. e006132
Author(s):  
Jennie Gamlin ◽  
Jean Segata ◽  
Lina Berrio ◽  
Sahra Gibbon ◽  
Francisco Ortega

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