MAQ | Home

Featured Content

MAQ Journal

Volume 35, Issue 1 (March 2021)

View the Current Issue

MAQ Journal

Volume 34, Issue 4 (December 2020)

Check out the December 2020 issue of MAQ

View the Current Issue

Forums

Resistance & Resilience: Forum in Honor of Leith Mullings

Five scholars reflect on the lasting impact of Mullings' work on the "Sojourner Syndrome" in Central Harlem

MAQ Journal

Greetings from Your New Editor

Current Issue

Volume 35, Issue 1 (March 2021)

View Current Issue

Articles

MDMA Is Not Ecstasy: The Production of Pharmaceutical Safety through Documents in Clinical Trials

Katherine Hendy

Diabetes‐by‐Proxy: Virtual Embodiment of Disease by Oklahoma Choctaw Parents of Children with Type 1 Diabetes

Alisa Tomette, Amanda Hass, J. Neil Henderson, Kama King, and Linda D. Carson

Epidemiologizing Culture: Scaling Chineseness through Narratives of Stigma in New York City

Katherine A. Mason

Catching Air: Risk and Embodied Ocean Health among Dominican Diver Fishermen

Kyrstin Mallon Andrews

The Vascularity of Ayurvedic Leech Therapy: Sensory Translations and Emergent Agencies in Interspecies Medicine

Lisa Allette Brooks

Living on Borrowed Breath: Respiratory Distress, Social Breathing, and the Vital Movement of Ventilators

Harris Solomon

The Potential of “Watchful” Care: Preventing Suicide with Aloha in Hawaii

Lauren Sealy Krishnamurti

Book Reviews

Review of A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao. Emily Ng, Oakland: University of California Press, 2020, 224 pp.

Barclay Bram

Review of Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang. Janet Carsten, Durham: Duke University Press, 2019, 256 pp.

Karen‐Sue Taussig

Review of On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women's Rights in the Era of Climate Change. Jade E. Sasser, New York: NYU Press, 2018, 189 pp.

A. Danielle Dulken

Review of Abortion in Post‐revolutionary Tunisia: Politics, Medicine and Morality. Irene Maffi, New York: Berghahn Books, 2020, 218 pp.

Whitney Arey

Review of Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal. Hanna Garth, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020, 214 pp.

Kyrstin Mallon Andrews

Review of Music, Health, and Power: Singing the Unsayable in the Gambia. Bonnie B. McConnell, New York: Routledge, 2020, 176 pp.

Lynne Stillings

Review of Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies: The Case of France and Belgium. Jennifer Merchant, ed., 2020, New York: Berghahn Books, 2020, 242 pp.

Noémie Merleau‐Ponty

Review of Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey. Salih Can Açiksöz, Oakland: University of California Press, 2020, 272 pp.

Zoë Wool

MAQ Online

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.

Browse Rapid Response

Recent Posts

Pfizer and the Sovereign: Cuba’s COVID19 vaccine offers an interesting counterpoint to the Pfizer roll-out in the US.
- Naomi Schoenfeld
On border crossings: COVID-19 as a test to global health’s architecture
- Fiona Gedeon Achi
Syllabus: A History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine
- Antoine S. Johnson, Ayah Nuriddin, and Elise A. Mitchell

Critical Care is the online publication of Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Critical Care provides anthropological insights about current events; creating space for public-facing writing, worldly and speculative interpretations of research, and dissemination of work to broader audiences.

Browse Critical Care

Recent Posts

The Trans Body Is A Valuable Resource
- Eric Plemons
Understanding PFOA
- David Bond
Which Lives Matter? Pro-Life Politics during a Pandemic
- Risa Cromer and Sophie Bjork-James

Med Anthro QuarterlyFollow

Med Anthro Quarterly @medanthq·

"The attenuated and bureaucratic screening process required for genital reconstructive surgery establishes the difference between organs that are needed but nonetheless lovingly donated, and those that are unwanted and abandoned to waste."

Reply on Twitter 1401943259748913153 Retweet on Twitter 1401943259748913153 Like on Twitter 14019432597489131533 Twitter 1401943259748913153

Med Anthro Quarterly @medanthq·

New Critical Care essay out now! Eric Plemons discusses new research in "The Trans Body is a Valuable Resource" https://medanthroquarterly.org/critical-care/2021/06/trans-body-is-a-valuable-resource/

Reply on Twitter 1401943175460175881 Retweet on Twitter 1401943175460175881 Like on Twitter 14019431754601758811 Twitter 1401943175460175881

More from MAQ

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.

Go to Teaching, Learning, & Transforming