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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 40, Issue 2 (June, 2026)

Articles

“It was tidak cocok (incompatible)”: Incompatibility, Decoloniality, and Vaccine Hesitancy in Banda Aceh, Indonesia

Dimas Iqbal Romadhon

Zoonotic anxieties: The cultural politics of Nepal’s quest for pandemic preparedness

Anna Durrance-Bagale, Hari Basnet, Max D. López Toledano, and Natasha Howard

Building walls around the safety net: Bureaucratic exclusion and cross-border health care utilization among pregnant women on the US-Mexico border

Rosario P. Olmos

Searching for therapeutic connections: Ukrainian refugee women with HIV in the EU

Dafna Rachok

Extraordinary measures of sibling worldmaking

Dima Kassem, Helen Ries, and Pamela Block

Care-full negotiation of hospital discharge and end-of-life care in an Indonesian palliative care unit

Hanum Atikasari

Concealed coexistence: Reproductive choice and coercion in Timor-Leste

Laura Burke

Fluctuations and remaining bonds: Challenging undynamic fetal personhood through women’s experiences of early pregnancy endings in England

Susie Kilshaw

Plastics and labor: The case of disposable medical plastics

Gauri Pathak

Care without co-presence: Crafting alternative modes of involvement in UK intensive care in times of COVID-19

Annelieke Driessen and Lisa Hinton

Book Review

Review of: Pregnant at Work: Low-Wage Workers, Power, and Temporal Injustice , Elise Andaya, New York City, NY: New York University Press. 2024. 208 pp.

Kathleen Rice

Review of: Queer Emergent: Scandalous Stories from the Twilight of AIDS in Peru By Justin Perez, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2025, 264 pp. Price: $27.95. ISBN: 978-1-4780-3180-2

Joseph Jay Sosa

Review of: Sensing the Landscape: An Ethnography of Blindness By Karis Jade Petty, New York, NY: Routledge, 2025, 208 pp. ISBN: 978-0-367-65022-3

Greg Weinstein

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