Angela was angry—even now, when I listen to the audio recording, I can hear the bitterness in her voice. We sat in the conference room of the public library near her home, where we had met for a formal interview, and she detailed the reasons for her anger, starting right in even before I had turned on the recorder, such …
As members of Somatosphere’s Editorial Collaborative, we have been following the unfolding crisis surrounding Hau with profound concern (Agro 2018, Flaherty 2018). As others have noted, this crisis has revealed multiple structural issues that deserve intense engagement beyond the specifics of the individual case: open-access (OA), digital scholarship and publication, yes, but also academic power, precarity, and vulnerability; …
Along with our normal roundup of articles, there are several special issues to note this month.
The most recent issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience contains a special section, entitled “Illness Narratives, Networked Subjects, and Intimate Publics.” In their introduction, Tamara Kneese and Beza Merid write of the pieces that comprise the section:
…The pieces in this
The first part of the In the Journals post for June 2017 can be found here. And now, for part two…
SPECIAL ISSUE: Communicating Mental Health
Introduction: historical contexts to communicating mental health
Rebecca Wynter and Leonard Smith
…Contemporary discussions around language, stigma and care in mental health, the messages these elements transmit, and the means
Anthropology and Aging (open access)
Yeori Park
This study analyzes the social context in China where the elderly participate in collective physical training, a cultural activity specific to the country. For this study, senior citizens aged 60 or above who participated
And, now, part two of September’s journal posting! (Part one is here.)
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
Anette Wickström
…Orthodontics offer young people the chance to improve their bite and adjust their appearances. The most common reasons for orthodontic treatment concern general dentists’, parents’ or
Science, Medicine, and Anthropology