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The goal of Teaching, Learning, and Transforming is to create a storehouse for resources, ideas, and discussion about the state of our discipline, from classroom to fieldwork. It includes curated collections from the journal’s archive as well as critical resources for writing syllabi and creating bibliographies that amplify the voices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, as well as scholarship from beyond the Euro-Atlantic.

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International Journal for the Analysis of Health

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Volume 38, Issue 4 (December 2024)

Articles

Transforming medical anthropology: Community, praxis, and the Black Feminist Health Science Studies Collaboratory

Medical sovereignty in Eritrea: Reducing maternal mortality and challenging global health humanitarianism in Africa

“Kita habis…we will be gone”: The politics of population, family planning and racialization in West Papua

Fieldwork with the Dead and Other Considerations: An Interview with Ashanté M. Reese

curating #blackgirlquarantine

Honoring the enslaved African American foremothers of modern women's health: Meditations on 40 years of Black feminist praxis

Anthropological knowledge under redaction: Meditations on race, health, and aesthetics

Erotic senses: Powering Brazilian Black queer existence in gynecological spaces

Book Reviews

Review of A life of worry: Politics, mental health, and Vietnam's age of anxiety By AllenTran, Berkeley: University of California Press. 2023. 196 pp.

Review of Developing to scale: Technology and the making of global health By HeidiMorefield, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2023. 232 pp.

Review of Social palliation: Canadian Muslims’ storied lives on living and dying By ParinDossa, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2021. 216 pp.

Review of The evening of life: The challenges of aging and dying well By PaulScherz, Joseph E.Davis, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. 2020. 214 pp.

Review of Arc of interference: Medical anthropology for worlds on edge By JoãoBiehl, VincanneAdams (Eds.), Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2023. 385 pp.

Review of Nuclear ghost: Atomic livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone By RyoMorimoto, Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2023. 339 pp.

Review of When death falls apart: Making and unmaking the necromaterial traditions of contemporary Japan By HannahGould, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2023. 168 pp.

Review of Circumcision and medicine in modern Turkey By OymanBasaran, Austin: University of Texas Press. 2023. 232 pp.

Review of Landscapes of care: Immigration and health in rural America By ThurkaSangaramoorthy, Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. 2023. 173 pp.

Review of The worlds of public health, anthropological excursions By DidierFassin, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. 2023. 274 pp.

Review of Ayahuasca as liquid divinity: An ontological approach By André van der Braak, Lanham: Lexington Books. 2023. 229 pp.

Review of Abortion care as moral work: Ethical considerations of maternal and fetal bodies By JohannaSchoen (ed)., New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2022. 202 pp.

Review of Milk Craze: Body, science, and hope in China By VeronicaMak, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2021. 256 pp.

Review of The work of repair: Capacity after colonialism in the timber plantations of South Africa By ThomasCousins, New York: Fordham University Press. 2023. 320 pp.

Review of Voices from the front lines: The pandemic and the humanities By Katherine RatzanPeeler and Richard M.Ratzan (Eds.), San Francisco, CA: University of California Health Humanities Press. 2024. 336 pp.

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