Multi-sensorial perceptions of risk: the aesthetics behind (muco)cutaneous leishmaniasis-related stigma in Ecuador
Anthropol Med. 2023 Oct 2:1-18. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2259184. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPrevious research on the stigma associated with cutaneous leishmaniasis, a vector-transmitted parasitic disease, focuses on aesthetic appearance affectation as the leading cause of stigmatisation. However, Indigenous populations in the hinterland of Amazonian Ecuador trigger stigma expressions by recognising (muco)cutaneous leishmaniasis, primarily through atypical smell, followed by the odd voice sound, appearance and taste. This empirical way of recognising symptoms relies on embodied forms of identifying a disease, contrast...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - October 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Veronica C Vargas Roman Jacob Bezemer Manuel Calvopi ña Fernando Ortega Noel B Salazar Henk D F H Schallig Henry J C de Vries Source Type: research
Illuminating the craft of policy: an anthropological approach to policy ethnography
Anthropol Med. 2023 Oct 2:1-17. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2242307. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe 'task to come' in anthropological fieldwork is rarely discussed explicitly as a set of underpinning methodological, analytical, conceptual, and theoretical precepts and practices. Drawing on learnings from a study of policymakers in the Australian Public Service - a non-conventional fieldwork location - this paper presents an account of how the anthropologist instituted direction and purpose or 'fruitful ways of looking' as an orientation to policy ethnography and the sense-making journey that follows. This paper progresse...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - October 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Joanna Mason Source Type: research
Relational chronicities: kinship, care, and ethics of responsibility
Anthropol Med. 2023 Oct 2:1-13. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2255771. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCare for chronic illness in clinical and everyday settings is relational and underpinned by ethical dilemmas about kinship care responsibilities as much as it is about self-care practices and technologically aided living. Such is the central argument of this special issue, which explores kin care and ethics of responsibilities in the everyday lives of persons and families with chronic illness across different locations globally. Rather than outlining the importance of kin care in times and spaces where clinical attention and h...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - October 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Emilija Zabili ūtė Hannah McNeilly Source Type: research
Governing healthcare: the uses and limits of governmentality in the National Health Service in England
Anthropol Med. 2023 Oct 2:1-18. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2242280. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTUsing examples from the National Health Service in England, this paper illustrates key features of contemporary healthcare governance: the way decisions are hidden in places that are 'in between' and 'out of reach'; the enrolment of doctors in governing; and the important role played by 'boring things', such as power point slides, flow charts, and forms. The essay shows how anthropological proximity and perspectives can extend and deepen understanding of contemporary political power. It does this firstly by showing the importa...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - October 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lorelei Jones Source Type: research
Multi-sensorial perceptions of risk: the aesthetics behind (muco)cutaneous leishmaniasis-related stigma in Ecuador
Anthropol Med. 2023 Oct 2:1-18. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2259184. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPrevious research on the stigma associated with cutaneous leishmaniasis, a vector-transmitted parasitic disease, focuses on aesthetic appearance affectation as the leading cause of stigmatisation. However, Indigenous populations in the hinterland of Amazonian Ecuador trigger stigma expressions by recognising (muco)cutaneous leishmaniasis, primarily through atypical smell, followed by the odd voice sound, appearance and taste. This empirical way of recognising symptoms relies on embodied forms of identifying a disease, contrast...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - October 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Veronica C Vargas Roman Jacob Bezemer Manuel Calvopi ña Fernando Ortega Noel B Salazar Henk D F H Schallig Henry J C de Vries Source Type: research
Care without heart: kinship, chronic illness, and the emotion of care in Delhi
Anthropol Med. 2023 Sep 22:1-16. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2245308. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDrawing on ethnography of one family's life with diabetes in a poor settlement in Delhi's suburbs, this paper examines the relationship between emotional structures of care and kinship in the face of chronic illness. While anthropologists have argued for a relational understanding of care and discussed how, in India, modernity and social transformations have resulted in crises of familial care, less attention has been paid to the emotional terrains of care and its difficulties as they unfold in concrete relationships over tim...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - September 22, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Emilija Zabili ūtė Source Type: research
Isabella's lion: circular care, kinship, and healing in Brazilian Candombl é
Anthropol Med. 2023 Sep 18:1-16. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2240171. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis paper centers on Isabella, a Candomblé follower who struggled with severe rheumatoid arthritis from an early age, arguing that care and self-care practices in Candomblé are intertwined to such extent that they challenge the dichotomy of caring and being cared for. In contrast to a linear model of care that positions care-giver and care--receiver at opposite ends of care relationships, the concept of 'circular care' describes forms of care that are directed at others and simultaneously at oneself. Exploring the religiou...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Hannah McNeilly Source Type: research
