Rapid Response publishes essays that relate to rapidly evolving experiences.
Members of the MAQ community are invited to submit material for Rapid Responses–either contributions to an existing series or ideas for a new series–directly to the Online MAQ Editor for consideration. Submissions will be reviewed expediently and posted as quickly as possible.
Rapid Response publishes pieces from SMA’s “Takes A Stand”, an initiative which encourages medical anthropologists to collaborate on policy-related reviews and briefs.
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SMA’s Policy Archive
Over the years, Society for Medical Anthropology members have prepared policy-relevant reviews and policy statements on issues that affect health worldwide. We make this archive available again today in an effort to underline its continuing relevance for the public.
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Women Vanish, Again.
Medical anthropologists attend to how power inequities predispose particular people’s bodies to harm, and render particular people’s interests irrelevant to dominant social institutions. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, we can expose the…
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CAR Statement on the Reversal of Roe v. Wade
Eliza Williamson, Brenna McCaffrey, Ashish Premkumar, Joanna Mishtal, Megan Cogburn, Becca Howes-Mischel, and Lucy Lowe Introduction “Restricting access to safe and legal abortion forces pregnancy-capable people to make the difficult decision between continuing with an unintended pregnancy, expending needed resources to travel…
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Beyond the Market Monopoly: How Patents Act
As the covid-19 pandemic highlights the fault lines between rich and poor countries, one set of debates has crystallized around the question of access to vaccines. Countries in the global North, including the U.S., U.K., and Canada have surpluses; countries in the…
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Pfizer and the Sovereign: Cuba’s COVID19 vaccine offers an interesting counterpoint to the Pfizer roll-out in the US.
As 2020 draws to a close, the COVID19 pandemic rages on, yet, undoubtedly, we have entered a distinct phase as a number of countries now begin or plan for mass distribution and administration of newly developed vaccines. As of this writing, there…
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On border crossings: COVID-19 as a test to global health’s architecture
As we hear about how the world – especially Europe – is currently experiencing the “second wave” of the coronavirus pandemic, many countries are enacting new lockdowns as well as border closures and restrictions. Public announcements exhort travelers to carefully follow local…