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Twitter account for the international journal Anthropology and Medicine
Joined January 2016
#Decolonising the #Medical Curriculum: #Psychiatry Faces Particular Challenges | by Patrick Bracken & colleagues - including our Editor in Chief @deletedalit
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Colonial thinking runs deep in psychiatry. Recent anti-racist statements from the APA and RCPsych are to be welcomed. However, we argue that if it is to really tackle deep-seated racism and decolon...
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New article out in @AnthMedJournal - ‘Consciously Quarantined’ with Sahra Gibbon @UCLanthropology @UCLGlobalHealth
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Whilst quarantine has been experienced in a multitude of ways around the world, for some anthropologists the quietening of public movement was met with a flurry of attentive typing. For those who w...
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How can we properly understand the claims about yoga’s health benefits? The new issue of @AnthMedJournal (co-edited by #CTPSR's @esrakaytaz & Alison Shaw @oxford_anthro) explores the health discourses around modern postural yoga https://t.co/w6Qwb4Y5Kn
@CovUniResearch @covcampus
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Volume 32, Issue 1 of Anthropology & Medicine
The Special Issue ‘Yoga bodies, yoga minds: contextualising the health discourses and practices of modern postural yoga’ I co-edited with Alison Shaw @oxford_anthro and @UCLASemel is now available @AnthMedJournal (@CTPSR_Coventry @CovUniResearch)🧵👇 https://t.co/y9ykvd5twm
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Making Life Stories Visible: An Ethnographic Study of Body Mapping in the Context of #HIV and #AIDS in #SouthAfrica | by Chernelle Lambert, Paolo S. H. Favero & Luc Pauwels #MedAnth
https://t.co/1WiQ8J7uDR
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This paper analyses the lived experiences of people living with HIV in South Africa through the use of body mapping as a visual research method, by focusing on the physical and symbolic use of the ...
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Consciously Quarantined: A Review of the Early Anthropological Response to the Global #COVID19 Lockdown | fresh off the #MedAnth press by @RebeccaMIrons & Sahra Gibbon of @UCLanthropology @medanthUCL
https://t.co/mZvYiLlKHh
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Whilst quarantine has been experienced in a multitude of ways around the world, for some anthropologists the quietening of public movement was met with a flurry of attentive typing. For those who w...
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#Yoga #Bodies, Yoga #Minds: Contextualising the #Health Discourses & Practices of Modern Postural Yoga' edited by Alison Shaw & @esrakaytaz | Delighted to launch this #MedAnth #SI that cuts across contexts to understand yoga's current global popularity https://t.co/UN8eogDpSB
The Special Issue ‘Yoga bodies, yoga minds: contextualising the health discourses and practices of modern postural yoga’ I co-edited with Alison Shaw @oxford_anthro and @UCLASemel is now available @AnthMedJournal (@CTPSR_Coventry @CovUniResearch)🧵👇 https://t.co/y9ykvd5twm
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The issue is not ‘#compliance’: exploring exposure to #malaria vector bites through #social dynamics in #BurkinaFaso | Fresh off the #MedAnth press *and* #OA by Federica Guglielmo @fegug, Hilary Ranson, N’falé Sagnon & Caroline Jones
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Credited with averting almost 68% of new cases between 2000 and 2015, insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) are one of the most efficacious malaria-prevention tools. Their effectiveness, however, depe...
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The issue is not ‘#compliance’: exploring exposure to #malaria vector bites through social dynamics in #BurkinaFaso | Congratulations to @fegug & colleagues on the publication of their article in #Anthropology & #medicine #MedAnth
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Credited with averting almost 68% of new cases between 2000 and 2015, insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) are one of the most efficacious malaria-prevention tools. Their effectiveness, however, depe...
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Dalits are NOT part of the formal textual religious/cultural caste hierarchy in India. By being considered so 'polluted,' they are confined out of the Caste system - hence the etic term 'untouchables' & now 'Dalits' - a self-ascribed term meaning the 'oppressed' - @deletedalit
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Our Editor, Sushrut Jadhav @deletedalit, has been recognised as one of #India's 50 trailblazers who have given voice & identity to millions of #Dalits (people who belong to the lowest caste in #India) in a country rife with caste prejudice & discrimination
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Over the summer term we will be hosting an amazing lineup of speakers on #vaccines every Thursday at 5pm, starting on 29th- registration is now open! @UCLGlobalHealth @UCLSociology @somatosphere
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UCL Medical Anthropology invites you to engage with unfolding debates on vaccines and the pandemic through this Seminar Series.
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Congratulations to author @sarahwillen, whose book FIGHTING FOR DIGNITY has won the Stirling Prize for Best Published Book in Psychological Anthropology, granted by @PsychAnth! https://t.co/lH9CVvHwya
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Beautiful reflection by @AmAnthroJournal editor @ElizabethChin "For me, the ethics and accountability of editing this journal are best expressed as a commitment to radical, rigorous generosity". I wish more editors would follow her lead👇 https://t.co/YXcycMXwuf
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#Apocalypse without #anxiety: the end times for a #Caribbean #religion by Roland Littlewood #MedAnth
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Affect has not been entirely established as a casual explanation in social science. The classic academic accounts of millennial movements emphasise both a period of ‘unease’ in the ambient atmosphe...
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Fresh off the #MedAnth press by Dr Rebecca Lynch @r_j_lynch | Living in the end of days: #risk, #anxiety, subjectivity and the devil in a Trinidadian village
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Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Trinidad, this paper examines how the framing of a particular apocalyptic future provided a moral commentary and model for wellbeing in contemporary everyday li...
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Fresh off the #MedAnth press by @kasstanb | #Vaccines and vitriol: an #anthropological commentary on vaccine #hesitancy, decision-making and #interventionism among #religious minorities
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This commentary addresses the issue of vaccine hesitancy and decision-making among religious minority groups in high-income country settings. Recent measles outbreaks have been attributed to lower-...
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Now Hiring: USC Berggruen Fellowship | University of Southern California Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life: Los Angeles, California | https://t.co/aQKRfad5Nf
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Our Associate Editor @kasstanb has just published a #MedAnth commentary on the issue of #vaccination among #religious minorities, in this thread he outlines his key arguments & implications for #PublicHealth in the #COVID19 era
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Fresh off the #MedAnth press | ‘There is no sick leave at the university’: how sick leave constructs the good employee by Chrystal Jaye and colleagues
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This paper examines the role of sick leave in constructing the identity of a good worker. The setting is a public funded New Zealand university. Within a qualitative research design, interviews wer...
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