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The psychiatric fix

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
wiley   +1 more source

That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
wiley   +1 more source

The uncomfortable science in the womb: How biological experience disrupts surrogacy narratives

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The discourse surrounding surrogacy portrays pregnancy as a temporary process, depicting surrogates as neutral “carriers” whose involvement concludes at birth. This narrative minimizes gestation's biological significance despite evidence of its lasting effects on both women and children.
Orit Chorowicz Bar‐Am   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Policing the safety net: Medical and carceral management of violence in a Los Angeles County public hospital

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Medical anthropologists have long shown how hospitals function as spaces of both care and control, yet the entanglement of policing and trauma care remains understudied. This paper offers an ethnographic account of how trauma surgeons in a Los Angeles County hospital navigate the embedded presence of police within their clinical work.
Emily Virginia Jones
wiley   +1 more source

‘I've been here before, but never looked at the ceiling’: Narratives of medical trainees who took illness‐based leaves

open access: yesMedical Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Medical training is commonly imagined as a linear, uninterrupted progression, yet many trainees experience illness that necessitates a leave of absence (LOA). Illness‐based leaves may be especially fraught given stigma, opaque processes and training cultures that prioritise endurance.
Daniela Keren   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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