Straddling “The Gulf Between Medicine and Law”: Medico‐legal addiction and Japanese psychiatry
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Increasing punitive drug regulations in Japan amplify longstanding tensions within psychiatric practice, pushing psychiatrists to balance clinical obligations with complex socio‐legal demands. This article analyzes how psychiatrists specializing in illicit substance use disorders to navigate escalating criminalization by developing diagnostic ...
Selim Gokce Atici
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This paper analyzes two disparate experiences of buprenorphine, a medication for opioid addiction, in California. Within the context of the U.S. War on Drugs and after decades of criminalization, buprenorphine represents a shift toward outpatient medical treatment of opioid addiction, but it has been unequally distributed and experienced ...
Lauren Textor
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Suicide rates of migrants in United States immigration detention (2010-2020). [PDF]
AIMS Public Health, 2021 Erfani P +4 more
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Medical 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
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Myths we tell ourselves about validity: A justice‐oriented reckoning in medical education
Medical Education, EarlyView.Abstract Background Medical education has moved beyond debating whether objectivity in assessment is achievable, acknowledging that assessment is inherently subjective. Yet the pursuit of objectivity, through standardisation, bias reduction and statistical rigour, remains a cherished goal.
Hannah L. Kakara Anderson +4 more
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Health of children in Australian immigration detention centres: An analysis of the quarterly health reports from 2014 to 2017. [PDF]
J Paediatr Child Health, 2022 Essex R +3 more
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The Racialisation of Rape: A Far‐Right Tool for Boundary‐Creation Across Borders
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Far‐right parties and movements have increasingly come to incorporate ideas of gender equality into their political agendas. While seemingly out of concern for women's rights and safety, these issues are in reality seldom more than a veil to further the stigmatisation of Muslim men.
Mathilda Åkerlund
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The pathogenicity of immigration detention: a systemic conflict between medical ethics and harmful migration policies. [PDF]
Lancet Reg Health EurCocco N +6 more
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Oscillating Whiteness: A Conceptual Framework for Analysing Transnational Ethno‐Racial Privilege
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article advances oscillating whiteness as a conceptual framework for analysing ethno‐racial privilege across geopolitical settings. The framework theorizes whiteness as a dynamic resource governed by four mechanisms: recognition (how bodies are classified as white), performativity (how whiteness is enacted through cultural scripts ...
Reza Hasmath
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Trends in Sexual Assault Against Detainees in US Immigration Detention Centers, 2018-2022.
JAMA, 2023 Lue N, Nwadiuko J, Parmar P, Zeidan A.
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