Counter-Stories in the way of caste: towards an anti-casteist public health praxis in contemporary India
Anthropol Med. 2024 Feb 1:1-19. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2274683. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHow can ethnographic methods track implicit & explicit forms of structural casteism in Indian public health policy and praxis? How can a critical attention to ordinary stories and subjectivities of casted lives reveal the underlying Brahmanical moralities, assumptions and imaginations of public health but equally also unravel anti-caste counter-framings/counter-theorizations of symptoms, afflictions, injuries and chronic wounds wrought by caste? How, in other words, can the horizons of anti-colonial theory-making be expand...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - February 1, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nikhil Pandhi Source Type: research
'Having the card makes us feel worthless': the negative value of government-funded health insurance in India
Anthropol Med. 2023 Dec;30(4):380-393. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2291738. Epub 2024 Feb 8.ABSTRACTSince the 2000s, hundreds of government-funded health insurance (GFHI) schemes were introduced in India. These schemes are meant to prevent poorer households from incurring catastrophic health expenditures. Through GFHIs, policy-makers want to mobilize the decision-making powers of private consumers in a liberalized healthcare market. Patients are called upon to act as 'co-creators' of healthcare value by optimizing supply through demand. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with insurance users in South India, we argue ...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - February 1, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Stefan Ecks Vani Kulkarni Source Type: research
Broken bones and apple brandy: resilience and sensemaking of general practitioners and their at-risk patients during the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland
Anthropol Med. 2023 Dec;30(4):346-361. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2269523. Epub 2024 Feb 8.ABSTRACTIn early 2020, when the first COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Switzerland, the federal government started implementing measures such as national stay-at-home recommendations and a strict limitation of health care services use. General practitioners (GPs) and their at-risk patients faced similar uncertainties and grappled with subsequent sensemaking of the unprecedented situation. Qualitative interviews with 24 GPs and 37 at-risk patients were conducted which were analyzed using thematic analysis. Weick's (1993) four sources ...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - January 30, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rebekah A Hoeks Michael J Deml Julie Dubois Oliver Senn Sven Streit Yael Rachamin Katharina Tabea Jungo Source Type: research
Globalizing transit worker stress
Anthropol Med. 2023 Dec;30(4):330-345. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2246265. Epub 2024 Feb 8.ABSTRACTHealth scientists have claimed that urban transit workers suffer from higher rates of stress-related disease than workers in most other occupations. This paper examines how a network of scientists and labor organizers constructed the problem of transit worker stress as a global phenomenon. According to study participants, transit workers worldwide are subject to a similar set of stress-related risks, which can serve as a basis for worker solidarity. This paper analyzes how the concept of stress has been used to identify patho...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - December 27, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mark D Fleming Source Type: research
Globalizing transit worker stress
Anthropol Med. 2023 Dec 26:1-16. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2246265. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHealth scientists have claimed that urban transit workers suffer from higher rates of stress-related disease than workers in most other occupations. This paper examines how a network of scientists and labor organizers constructed the problem of transit worker stress as a global phenomenon. According to study participants, transit workers worldwide are subject to a similar set of stress-related risks, which can serve as a basis for worker solidarity. This paper analyzes how the concept of stress has been used to identify patho...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - December 27, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mark D Fleming Source Type: research
