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Medical Anthropology Quarterly

International Journal for the Analysis of Health

Medical Anthropology Quarterly publishes research and theory in all areas of medical anthropology. Its goal is to stimulate development of important theory, methods, and debates in medical anthropology and to explore the links between medical anthropology, the broader field of anthropology, and neighboring fields in the humanities, social sciences, and health-related disciplines, including public health and clinical practice.

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Volume 39, Issue 3 (September, 2025)

Articles

“We Only Escort Women to the Health Facility”: Traditional birth attendants and the performance of indicator-driven care in rural Tanzania

Megan D. Cogburn and Mohamed Yunus Rafiq

No rush: The relational time ethic and faith-based medical clinics in the United States

Carolyn Schwarz

Enacting embryos: Practices, ontologies, and politics of the IVF lab post-Dobbs

Manon Lefevre

Euthanasia as a safeguard for living: Anticipation and incurable cancer in a Colombian context

Camilo Sanz

Evidence-based medicine and private clinics in Russia: Unlikely co-production of good care and profit-making

Klasien Horstman, Masha Denisova, and Olga Zvonareva

Rumor as ethical vernacular: Ebola and the womb in eastern Congo

Myfanwy James

Marshallese mothers navigating discrimination in Hawai’i: Bwebwenato as method

Jan Brunson and Katriel Wong

Book Reviews

Review of Defending rumba in Havana: The sacred and Black corporeal undercommons By Maya Berry, Durham: Duke University Press. 2025. 331 pp.

Yvonne Daniel

Review of Fertility, health, and reproductive politics: Re-imagining rights in India By Maya Unnithan, New York, NY: Routledge. 2019. 233 pp.

Cecilia Coale Van Hollen

Review of Dangerous love: Sex work, drug use, and the pursuit of intimacy in Tijuana, Mexico By Jennifer Leigh Syvertsen, Berkeley: University of California Press. 2022. 188 pp.

Sonia Rupcic

Review of Aging and generation in Cuba: Unravelling the care crisis By Blandine Destremau-Zeitz, Lanham: Lexington Books. 2023. 243 pp.

Elix Colon

Review of Living together across borders: Communicative care in transnational Salvadoran families By Lynnette Arnold, New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2024. 220 pp.

Teresa M. Mares

Review of Life at the center: Haitians and corporate Catholicism in Boston By Erica Caple James, Oakland: University of California Press. 2024. 303 pp.

Bertin M. Louis

Review of Biotraffic: Medicines and environmental governance in the afterlives of apartheid By Christopher Morris, Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2024. 264 pp.

Damien Droney

Review of Mal-nutrition: Maternal health science and the reproduction of harm By Emily Yates-Doerr, Oakland: University of California Press. 2024. 268 pp.

Rebecca Howes-Mischel

Review of The way that leads among the lost: Life, death, and hope in Mexico City’s anexos By Angela Garcia, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2024. 272 pp.

Agnes Mondragon-Celis

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