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Home sweet harm: Confinement and tranquilidad in post‐asylum Peru
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how Peru's Community Mental Health (CMH) model contributes to the exclusion and home confinement of mentally ill individuals. Based on the experience of a woman diagnosed with schizophrenia and her mother, I show how CMH's emphasis on community‐based care often fails in practice, as neighbors respond to people with mental
Julio Villa‐Palomino
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic was a crisis in prisons and jails, with some of the largest outbreaks in the United States happening inside carceral facilities. In the absence of structural interventions to protect them, people inside prisons engaged in various forms of carework to support one another and to draw attention to the horrific conditions. We
Esther Melton +2 more
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Searching for safety: Working conditions and policing in a US emergency department
Medical 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
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Body height, body weight, BMI, and nutritional status among male adolescents in Montenegro: a nationwide archival study from 1979 to 1987. [PDF]
Front Public HealthPopovic S +4 more
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Caring for the institution: An ethnography of quality assurance policy in U.S. rural primary care
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Based on mixed‐methods, ethnographic research in a geographically isolated rural medical center in the upper midwestern United States, this paper explores the social implications of healthcare quality assurance policies highly reliant on managerial logics, including measurement and monitoring programs.
Chloe L. Warpinski
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The Rebel Body: The Subversive Meanings of Illness. [PDF]
Cult Med PsychiatryScheper-Hughes N +2 more
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Awkward Moments in the Anthropology of the Military and the (Im)possibility of Critique
, 2019 Birgitte Refslund Sørensen +1 more
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Anthropology and the United States Military: Coming of Age in the Twenty‐First Century [PDF]
, 2004 David H. Price
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