Somatosphere: CfP: The social lives of biomedical technologies in global...
AAA Chicago 2013 Call for Papers: The social lives of biomedical technologies in global health development Global health development policy and practice has made a noticeable return in recent years...
View ArticleSomatosphere: On the pragmatics and politics of collaborative work between...
For scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences, it sometimes seems like hardly a day goes by without some kind of exhortation towards ‘interdisciplinarity’ – a trend that has only...
View ArticleSomatosphere: “I Didn’t Want to Be One of the Contaminated People”:...
A small-town high school in western New York became the focus of news media attention from late 2011 to early 2012. Nearly two dozen teens and one adult, all but one female, exhibited spasmodic...
View ArticleSomatosphere: A psychiatric research scandal and an accidental activist by...
An earlier version of this article appeared on Pharmalot. The University of Minnesota has turned me into an activist against it. Let me confess right away that this is not a role for which I am...
View ArticleSomatosphere: The Afflictions Series: An Interview with Ethnographic...
When Robert Lemelson, an anthropologist, filmmaker, and research professor at UCLA, recently visited the George Washington University to speak at a conference on how ethnographic films can help us...
View ArticleSomatosphere: April In the Journals… (1/2) by Melanie Boeckmann
With daylight saving time come new articles this April! The current issue of Medical Anthropology explores concepts of healing in diverse contexts. James B. Waldram opens the discussion with his...
View ArticleSomatosphere: The Afflictions Series: an Interview with Ethnographic...
When Robert Lemelson, an anthropologist, filmmaker, and research professor at UCLA, recently visited the George Washington University to speak at a conference on how ethnographic films can help us...
View ArticleSomatosphere: April In the Journals… (2/2) by Anna Zogas
Following up on Melanie’s In the Journals… (1/2), here is a short sampling of other recently published articles. On “Early View” from Sociology of Health & Illness: In an article entitled,...
View ArticleSomatosphere: Early Career Scholar’s Network Events at the Association for...
The Association for Social Sciences and Humanities in HIV conference in Paris presents an ideal opportunity to establish an open assemblage of early career researchers and scholars connected through a...
View ArticleSomatosphere: Web Roundup: Abortion Rights and Patent Laws by Matthew Dalstrom
This month’s Web Roundup is dedicated to the role that legislation and the courts have in promoting or restricting access to medical care. In particular, I will focus briefly on the passage of...
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