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

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on fieldwork conducted in Nepal (2022–2024) and by paying attention to how local and transnational notions of epidemiological risk are deployed, this ethnography introduces the concept of “zoonotic anxieties” to make sense of the multi‐species relational ethos that contemporary global health regimes propose.
Max D. López Toledano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
wiley   +1 more source

Plasmonic Brownian Ratchets for Directed Transport of Analytes. [PDF]

open access: yesNano Lett
Palma do Carmo M   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Searching for safety: Working conditions and policing in a US emergency department

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, emergency departments aren't supposed to turn anyone away. They are the safety‐net of the safety‐net providing life‐saving care. Yet, what happens to healthcare when conditions are so strained that patients and staff lash out at each other? What happens when the safety net becomes a carceral net?
Fabián Luis C. Fernández
wiley   +1 more source

Accountability in Government Use of AI: Citizen Concerns and Preferences

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Government adoption of AI opens the “pandora's box” of accountability, a core aspect of public value. Despite the centrality of governmental AI accountability, citizens' concerns and preferences in holding governments accountable for AI usage remain poorly understood.
Naikang Feng, Yanto Chandra
wiley   +1 more source

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