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, Jean Hunleth, with submissions and ideas:
jean.hunleth@wustl.edu
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Bridging Medical Anthropology: From Taiwan to the East Asian Network
Shao-hua Liu Back in 2014, at an academic gathering in China, a tall male anthropologist reacted with surprise upon meeting me. “Ah! Liu Shao-hua is so petite. How could you have managed such tough fieldwork?” This was a common reaction to my…
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Moralities, Institutions, and Familyhood in Disability and Long-term Care in Japan
Makoto Nishi In my childhood photo album, there is a picture from around 1975 of my younger brother, me, and a girl I no longer remember. I once asked my mother who she was. She said the girl was someone my father…
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Truths in Motion: Psychedelics, Care, and the Futures of Home
Minsu Yoo Several months have passed since returning from the EAMAN conference in Taipei, yet my thoughts still resist settling. The event lingers in shards, like objects left scattered after a hurried departure. Writing desks, footsteps, faces, screens, hands, and voices carrying…
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Finding New Genba in East Asian Workplace Fields
Kwanwook Kim The literal meaning of the Japanese term genba () is a place where things are done at the present moment (). While this term has a meaning similar to that of an anthropological field or fieldsite, it is also widely…
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Series Introduction: East Asian Medical Anthropology for a Transformative Time
Bo Kyeong Seo Creating a new node of intellectual connections shifts the scale of conversation. The old divisions and hierarchies between local and global, domestic and international, native and foreign lose their force when diverse pathways open into a stream of thought…
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Patients Are Not Financially Illiterate: US Hospitals Systemically Fail to Help Them Avoid Medical Debt
Suma – all names are pseudonyms – worked at a free health clinic and in an interview, she spoke about the free health services the clinic offered to people who live below or on the poverty level. Suma emphasized the importance of…