In the Journals…. July edition (1/2) by Melanie Boeckmann
Summer issues are out! The July issue of Health contains a surprising article by Gwendolyn Blue and Melanie Rock of the University of Toronto on “the intermingling of animal and human bodies”. In...
View ArticleIn the Journals… July (2/2) by Melanie Boeckmann
Submissions to a special thematic series on “Medical Tourism – Concepts, Ethics, And Practices” for the journal Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine can be turned in until 1 December 2011....
View ArticleCall for Papers: Embattled Spaces/Contested Orders, Germany 05/30-06/02 2012...
The Association of Africanists in Germany e.V. (Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland) has extended their call for abstracts for their 2012 conference on Embattled Spaces/Contested Orders...
View ArticleIn the Journals… March 2012 round up (1/2) by Melanie Boeckmann
Spring is only slowly arriving here in our parts of Europe, but it is March nonetheless. This month offered fewer new journal issues than was the case in previous years. BioSocieties has recently...
View ArticleIn the Journals… July 2012 by Melanie Boeckmann
For this first part of July starting us off is the July issue of Health with seven articles ranging from issues of identity in an online self-help diabetes community, gendered perspectives of own and...
View ArticleIn the Journals… July 2012, Part 2 by Melanie Boeckmann
You can find Part One of this month’s In the Journals… feature here. This month’s Science, Technology, & Human Values focuses on “Experiments in Context and Contexting“. Tiago Moreira argues that...
View ArticleIn the Journals … September 2012 by Melanie Boeckmann
You likely have barely finished reading all those articles from the August In the Journals… I will deliver you the September goods regardless and hope you’ll find something in there that keeps you...
View ArticleWeb Roundup October 2012 by Melanie Boeckmann
Today I am testing the waters of the web roundups here at Somatosphere. Feel free to give feedback! This month’s theme is data, inspired by many tweets I received on ENCODE and big data. I was...
View ArticleIn the Journals… New Year’s edition by Melanie Boeckmann
Happy New Year! As you know, traditional academic publishing lags months (I’ve even heard of years!) behind current events. Therefore, although I’d love to present you this month’s themes as “fresh...
View ArticleApril In the Journals… (1/2) by Melanie Boeckmann
With daylight saving time come new articles this April! The current issue of Medical Anthropology explores concepts of healing in diverse contexts. James B. Waldram opens the discussion with his...
View ArticleWeb Roundup: Public and Private by Melanie Boeckmann
Last month Matthew Dalstrom linked to web content on abortion and patent laws. The divide between public and private, and questions such as: Is what’s private really always political? inspire this...
View ArticleSeptember In the Journals … (2/2) by Melanie Boeckmann
Building upon Anna’s post, here is some more fall reading you might want to check out. First up is the special issue of Contemporary South Asia on South Asian Tissue Economies. In the introduction,...
View ArticleBeginnings: Web Roundup January 2014 by Melanie Boeckmann
As a researcher, I organize my thoughts through spontaneous, messy, fast, and private writing. Writing I don’t want to share at first, but that I find necessary to wrap my head around what it is I am...
View ArticleCall for contributors: Web Roundups by Melanie Boeckmann
Somatosphere is currently looking to recruit 3-4 people to assist with the ongoing feature Web Roundups. The Web Roundups are periodic postings on electronic resources and materials for topics...
View ArticleIn the Journals, April 2014 – Part II by Melanie Boeckmann
Following in Anna‘s footsteps, here is the second half of this month’s In the Journals. The current issue of Critical Public Health is a special issue on “Schools and public health: critical...
View ArticleCDC Request Regarding Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) by Melanie...
[This call for researchers was posted to the European MedAnthnet Digest list, I have copied and shortened the text below from the announcement. -M.B.] Seeking anthropologic expertise into how we can...
View ArticleNew series: Climate change and health by Melanie Boeckmann
Climate change and human health is a topic of growing popularity and urgency in the public health community. In its draft twelfth working program the WHO repeatedly links climate change to negative...
View ArticleIn the Journals, September 2014 – Part II by Melanie Boeckmann
As a follow-up to Anna’s post, here are additional September articles of interest. Anthropology and Medicine Special Issue: Mediating Medical Technologies: Flows, Frictions and New Socialities Medical...
View ArticleWeb Roundup: Disaster! by Melanie Boeckmann
This coming weekend I will attend the Reframing Disaster conference held under the auspices of the Postcolonial Disaster project at the University of Leeds. The conference motto is “disaster is not an...
View ArticleIn the Journals January 2015 – Part I by Melanie Boeckmann
Welcome to 2015 in reading! Below are interesting abstracts from current issues of medical anthropology journals. Critical Public Health The pedagogy of disgust: the ethical, moral and political...
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