AMAA on Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care

Elana Buch

Tag: Personhood

AMAA on Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care

Post author Elana Buch
Post date December 6, 2021

This article is part of the following series: Ask-Me-Almost-Anything (AMAA): Centering Student Engagement with Ethnographic Monographs

Questions developed by the members of CU Denver’s ANTH4600/5600, S2021: Kaylynn Aiona, Delilah Chavarria, Darcy Copeland, Keaton Green, Ari Jones, Caitlin Konchan, Chris Kuelling, Kuba Kwiecinski, Rosa Lawrence, Destinee Murray, Alexa Powell, Benin Rahma, George Sanchez, Emma Vittetoe, Renee Watson, and Abby Welch

Instructor’s note: Reading “Inequalities of Aging” during an ongoing pandemic and struggles for racial justice lent Elana …

Tags Aging, Care/caregiving, Fieldwork/ethnography, Personhood

Books

Autism in Translation: An Intercultural Conversation on Autism Spectrum Conditions (Eds. Elizabeth Fein and Clarice Rios)

Post author Cara Ryan
Post date April 26, 2019

Autism in Translation: An Intercultural Conversation on Autism Spectrum Conditions

Edited by Elizabeth Fein and Clarice Rios

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 304 pages.

Autism in Translation: An Intercultural Conversation on Autism Spectrum Conditions—an edited collection out of the Society of Psychological Anthropology’s (SPA) Culture, Mind and Society series—aims to contextualize the different social and political histories of, treatments for, and …

Tags Autism, Interdisciplinarity, Personhood, Psychological anthropology

Features

Conjuring Madness: Self/Non Self and Mental Illness in Post-Apartheid Namibia

Post author Mattia Fumanti
Post date April 6, 2018

Il convient plutot de s’attacher à ce que signifie ȇtre un homme, avant de problématiser la folie en terms de santé et maladie, Ludwig Binswanger, Le Rȇve et l’Existence (1954)

On a cold winter morning I walked on Independence Avenue, Windhoek’s main thoroughfare in the heart of the capital’s central business district, with M. …

Tags Africa, Culture and Mental Health, Mental health, Personhood

Features

Heart

This article is part of: Commonplaces

Recently the Minister of Health of Trinidad and Tobago explained the problem of chronic disease in the country: “The population do not listen to the message we are sending out – love yourself, eat right, exercise and decrease your sugar and salt intake.”[i] The exhortation to “love yourself” in a disciplined approach to health suggests the curious place of …

Tags Affect, Emotion, Law, Personhood, Religion, self

Announcements

Conference: Comics & Medicine, From Private Lives to Public Health, June 26-28, 2014

Post author Todd Meyers
Post date April 15, 2014

Comics & Medicine: From Private Lives to Public Health

June 26th to 28th, 2014

The Johns Hopkins Medical Campus, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Keynote Speakers: Ellen Forney, Arthur W. Frank, James Sturm & Carol Tilley

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Department of Art as Applied to Medicine in collaboration with Graphic Medicine invites papers for the fifth Comics & …