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Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volume 32, Issue 1 (March 2018)

    Articles

    Security and the Traumatized Street Child: How Gender Shapes International Psychiatric Aid in Cairo

    Rania Kassab Sweis

    Embedded Narratives: Metabolic Disorders and Pentecostal Conversion in Samoa

    Jessica Hardin

    Efficacious Holidays: The Therapeutic Dimensions of Pleasure and Discipline in Czech Respiratory Spas

    Susanna Trnka

    Handle with Care: Rethinking the Rights versus Culture Dichotomy in Cancer Disclosure in India

    Cecilia Coale Van Hollen

    Only Near Is Dear? Doing Elderly Care with Everyday ICTs in Indian Transnational Families

    Tanja Ahlin

    Recognizing Dementia: Constructing Deconstruction in a Danish Memory Clinic

    Iben M. Gjødsbøl and Mette N. Svendsen

    The Attachment Imperative: Parental Experiences of Relation-making in a Danish Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

    Laura E. Navne, Mette N. Svendsen, and Tine M. Gammeltoft

    “You Can Learn Merely by Listening to the Way a Patient Walks through the Door”: The Transmission of Sensory Medical Knowledge

    Gili Hammer

    Book Reviews

    Review of Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India. Harris Solomon, Durham: Duke University Press, 2016, 292 pp.

    Nayantara Sheoran Appleton

    Review of Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China. Tiantian Zheng, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015, 244 pp.

    Yifeng Cai

    Review of Volunteer Economies: The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa. Ruth Prince and Hannah Brown, eds., Rochester, NY: James Currey Press, 2016, 270 pp.

    Lydia Boyd

    Special focus section: re-examining biopolitics

    Review of Reluctant Intimacies: Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian hands. Beata ?witek, New York: Berghahn Books, 2016, 226 pp.

    Iza Kavedžija

    Review of The Lives of Community Health Workers: Local Labor and Global Health in Urban Ethiopia. Kenneth Maes, New York: Routledge, 2017, 171 pp.

    Crystal Biruk

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    Special Series: Sensorial Engagements with a Toxic World

    Chisato Fukuda

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