Medical Anthropology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Andres Restrepo Sanchez.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project explores the challenges of bringing life into a context of death. Colombia has suffered one of the longest internal armed conflicts, and Medellín has been one of its most affected territories. I am interested in how multiple scales of violence are understood, experienced, and/or resisted in birth contexts in Medellín. Obstetric violence has been used in various Latin American...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ebenezer Adeyemi.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Current anthropological scholarship on infrastructure frames it as material objects, like roads, waste disposal systems, healthcare facilities, to name a few, that are provided predominately by the state. Additionally, debates in critical medical anthropology have highlighted how social factors, like inadequate infrastructure, interact with biological pathogens, such as mosquitos, to make...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Terlep.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Researchers, most recently Crown and colleagues (2016), have long highlighted the significance of polydactyly (having more than five digits on a hand or foot) within rock imagery and material culture across Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures displaying polycephaly (multiple heads) is another frequent depiction...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Weaver.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Zhiying Ma.

This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. "Intimate Institutions: Psychiatry, Family, and the Rise of Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China" examines families' involvement in the care and management of persons diagnosed with serious mental illnesses in China, especially during the recent mental health legal reform. Over the last three decades, most psychiatric inpatients in China have been hospitalized against their will, by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gloria Moreno.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. As ethnographic and anthropological studies of men and masculinities expanded since the 1990s, men from diverse cultural backgrounds and regions of the world have come to be recognized as having and producing gender. However, the significance of contemporary male genital modifications and their implications for masculinity, extending beyond circumcision and biomedical perspectives, did not...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves.

This resource is an application for a Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. What happens when the desire to stay alive is replaced by a wish to die in a specific manner? ‘Not Dead Yet’ explores lives lived near death, lives that unfold toward assisted dying as people anticipate their own voluntary death with assistance. This documentary chronicles the parallel lives of two retired theater actors living in a circus wagon beside a German lake, and a Swiss physician who...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David Carey, Jr..

This resource is an application for a Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. As they exposed and deepened social inequities, the 1918 Spanish influenza and Covid 19 pandemics also revealed human capacity for social solidarity and the significance of local-level advocacy to meet basic needs and to facilitate more equitable health care access. I intend to use Indigenous healing knowledge and public health practices as lenses through which to demonstrate that Indigenous peoples...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michelle Roberts.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. While healthcare plays an invaluable role in disability prevention and treatment, disabled people and their families are often left to manage new care needs and daily life post-hospitalization. This ethnographic doctoral dissertation project investigates how cultural, political-economic, and biomedical forces shape disability via everyday experiences of care for people with acquired...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dilmurod Yusupov.

This resource is an application for the Wadsworth International Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This Wadsworth International Fellowship is to aid training in Anthropology at the University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.