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“We always heal like this”: Illness management and identity expression in Latin American migrants in Spain

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The following article seeks to explore and analyze the use of lay and traditional medicines among Latin migrants in Spain, and the way in which these forms of treatment are accompanied by identity discourses and collective representations.
Muriel Lamarque
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Betwixt playing the waiting game and waiting in vain: Temporal governance and the thin alignment of care under universal health coverage in Kenya

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates how Kenyan citizens access healthcare within the framework of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) reforms. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, it reconceptualizes waiting as a politically structured phenomenon rather than a simple delay. The analysis shows that UHC reforms do not eliminate waiting but instead redistribute it,
Edwin Ambani Ameso
wiley   +1 more source

“They need to get a new program”: Experiential frictions with the gender of care in the 12 step program for ethnically Mexican women

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Using gender as an analytic, I parse out how the historical gendered, classed, and racialized roots of the 12 Step Program remain present in its therapeutic model, even in global contexts beyond its original formulation. These foundations continue to shape therapeutic logics and experience within the Program, in positive and negative ways.
Ellen E. Kozelka
wiley   +1 more source

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