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(Re)Turning to Black feminist consciousness: Deconstructing the politics of reproductive racism in Britain

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Using ethnographic vignettes from my doctoral research, this article contextualizes and analyses Britain's Black maternal health crisis— a crisis of reproductive racism— through a Black feminist lens. The inequities Black mothers face has a strong Black (and) feminist history of being analyzed in relation to the politics of anti‐Black racism ...
Princess Banda
wiley   +1 more source

“Why can't they put us to sleep if we are suffering?”: La Nada and the desire for euthanasia among institutionalized older adults in Peru

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I examine how institutionalized older adults in Peru articulate suffering through the idiom of la nada—“nothingness”—and how this shapes desires for euthanasia. Moving from close ethnography of bodies in space and time to structural and ethical discourses on euthanasia, I argue that calls for euthanasia arise not only from ...
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
wiley   +1 more source

Physician-Assisted Suicide: Against Medical Neutrality. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Gen Intern Med, 2019
Sulmasy DP   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“Buprenorphine doesn't hold me”: Neurochemical afterlives of state violence and the struggle for meaning in addiction treatment

open access: yesMedical 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
wiley   +1 more source

Perfectionism in Overweight and Obesity: A Scoping Review

open access: yesObesity Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT People with a high body mass index (BMI) experience high rates of disordered eating behaviors (DEB) and eating disorders (ED). Perfectionism has been identified as a transdiagnostic mechanism across EDs; however, it is unclear whether it can be considered a transdiagnostic, trans‐BMI mechanism that should be evaluated and targeted in ...
Chantal P. Delaquis   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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