Critical Care is the online publication of Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Critical Care provides anthropological insights about current events; creating space for public-facing writing, worldly and speculative interpretations of research, and dissemination of work to broader audiences. Critical Care combines the theoretical legacy of medical anthropology with applied, real-world engagements, providing careful responses to urgent matters demanding our attention.
Our editorial team is always looking for innovative and accessible contributions from medical anthropology and neighboring disciplines. Submissions will be reviewed by the MAQ Digital Editor and Editor, and we will work closely with authors on revisions. Multimedia or text submissions can take the form of:
- reflections on fieldwork in progress
- introduction of emergent methodologies or concepts
- medical anthropological perspectives on current events
- amplifying underrepresented voices in medical anthropology and in biomedicine/tech at large
- reports from events, workshops, conference sessions
We also welcome online series ideas, which can resemble a journal special issue or be a collected group of submissions focused around a common theme or topic. A series can be curated by a contributor or by the digital editor.
Please contact the MAQ Digital Editor, Jessica Robbins-Panko, with submissions and ideas: jessica.robbins@wayne.edu.
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What Our Bodies Remember
Glorieuse Uwizeye and Sienna R. Craig (corresponding author) Glorieuse and Sienna met when Glorieuse was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College, where Sienna is a professor, and soon found that they shared a belief in the vitality…
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“What was I supposed to do again?” Doing Ethnography [in] and ]of[ global Health
Métrey Tiv In this piece, I take a critical stance on the ways of working in global health, drawing on my positionality as insider and outsider in this arena. [Insider]—I am a medical doctor specializing in public health and social medicine with…
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On the Quest for Hippos
Marlee Tichenor I began conducting ethnographic research on health policy production and implementation in Senegal in 2011, first on how to understand and control malaria and then on the movement for universal health coverage. During my first summer in Senegal, I took…
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Still Life with Flowers
Jed Stevenson Many families in Ethiopia, including the one I married into, straddle divides between major ethnic groups and between urban and rural communities. As Ethiopian cities have expanded over the past decades and the balance of power among groups has shifted,…
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Silenced Stories and Fragmented Pasts
Ana Margarida Sousa Santos This flash ethnography tries to capture the heavy, awkward silences that surround the experience of the anti-colonial wars in Portugal. The responsibilities of storytelling and inquiring into this painful past, and the avoidance that accompanies them, are central…
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Empathy: Is It Enough?
Parbati Shrestha This piece of flash ethnography is based on a visit to a research participant, together with Dr. Liana Chase, a friend who is an anthropologist like me, but a foreigner. The visit evoked feelings of being both an outsider and…