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Spawned in mid-2020, amid the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests and the Covid-19 pandemic, Rapid Response publishes essays that relate to rapidly evolving experiences.

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“Masks Are Like a Patch”: On the limits and possibilities of solidarity with farmworkers in a pandemic
- Dvera I. Saxton
The Trans Body Is A Valuable Resource
- Eric Plemons
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20 Oct

Dvera Saxton writes about solidarity with farmworkers during a pandemic in new Critical Care post up now:
https://medanthroquarterly.org/critical-care/2021/10/masks-are-like-a-patch/
"Farmworkers are not just essential workers–they are also our neighbors, friends, and kin, and our critical caretakers."

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12 Oct

Chasing Ghosts: Race, Racism, and the Future of Microbiome Research

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00604-21

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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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Becoming Institutionalized: Incarceration as a Chronic Health Condition

Like a Grinding Stone: How Crowdfunding Platforms Create, Perpetuate, and Value Health Inequities

Cryopreserving Jewish Motherhood: Egg Freezing in Israel and the United States

Decolonizing Care at Diagnosis: Culture, History, and Family at an Urban Inter‐tribal Clinic

Taming Time: Configuring Cancer Patients as Research Subjects

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Book Reviews

Review of On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience. Abou Farman, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020, 384 pp.

Response to Langford's review of On Not Dying: Mind the Gap

Review of The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism. Patricia Zavella, New York: NYU Press, 2020, 298 pp.

Review of Virulent Zones: Animal Disease and Global Health at China's Pandemic Epicenter, Lyle Fearnley, Durham: Duke University Press, 2020, 288 pp.

Review of Spacious Minds: Trauma and Resilience in Tibetan Buddhism. Sara E. Lewis, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019, 228 pp.

Review of Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice. Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese, eds., Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2020, 320 pp.

Review of Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India, Lesley Jo Weaver, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020, 202 pp.

Review of Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self‐mastery. Joseph E. Davis, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, 256 pp.

Review of Navigating Miscarriage: Social, Medical & Conceptual Perspectives. Susie Kilshaw and Katie Borg, editors, New York: Berghahn, 2020, 252 pp.

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