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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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Medical Anthropology Quarterly

International Journal for the Analysis of Health

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Scott Stonington's The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand

Women Vanish, Again.

Declaración de la Sociedad de Antropología Médica sobre el fallo de la Suprema Corte en el caso Dobbs contra Jackson Women’s Health Organization

Volume 36, Issue 4 (December 2022)

CAR Statement on the Reversal of Roe v. Wade

Confianza: COVID care at the intersection of kinship, community, and biomedicine

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Volume 36, Issue 4 (December 2022)

Articles

Society for Medical Anthropology Statement on Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Decision

“There Would Be More Black Spaces”: Care/giving Cartographies during COVID‐19

Discounted Deaths: The Eruption of COVID‐19 in the Geriatric System of the Community of Madrid

Mobility Imaginaries of Humanitarian Intervention: Gender, Migration, and Violence along Mexico's Southern Border

Praying for More Time: Mexican Immigrants’ Pandemic Eldercare Dilemmas

Shouldering Death: Moral Tensions, Ambiguity, and the Unintended Ramifications of State‐sanctioned Second‐trimester Selective Abortion in Denmark

Dirty Work in Medicine: Understanding U.S. Physicians’ Agency in Contested Medical Practices

Declaración de la Sociedad de Antropología Médica sobre el fallo de la Suprema Corte en el caso Dobbs contra Jackson Women’s Health Organization

Book Reviews

Review of Can Science and Technology Save China? Susan Greenhalgh and Li Zhang, eds., Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020, 240 pp.

Review of At the Limits of Cure. Bharat Jayram Venkat, Durham: Duke University Press, 2021, 304 pp.

Review of Substantial Relations: Making Global Reproductive Medicine in Postcolonial India. Sandra Bärnreuther, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021, 192 pp.

Review of Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals. Vania Smith‐Oka, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021, 228 pp.

Review of Growing Old in a New China: Transitions in Elder Care. Rose Keimig, Newark, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021, 208 pp.

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