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22 Jul

My piece on why Big Pharma opposes a COVID vaccine patent waiver and the insufficiency of a waiver without tech transfer @medanthq -> https://medanthroquarterly.org/rapid-response/2021/07/beyond-the-market-monopoly-how-patents-act/

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For those who missed it at @culanth and @teachlearnanth and @anthrowork, MAQ has reposted a statement on AAA publishing futures on its website: https://medanthroquarterly.org/fromtheeditor/a-statement-on-aaas-publishing-future/

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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 35, Issue 2 (June 2021)

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Beyond the Market Monopoly: How Patents Act

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Volume 35, Issue 2 (June 2021)

Articles

Painful Subjects: Treating Chronic Pain among People Living with HIV in the Age of Opioid Risk

Can a Neighborhood Fall Sick? Opioid Addiction, Collective Violence and Currents of Death in Contemporary India

A Second Chance: Reenactment and Recovery Narratives in a Peruvian Drug Rehabilitation Center

Going Nowhere: Ambivalence about Drug Treatment during an Overdose Public Health Emergency in Vancouver

Therapeutic Borderlands: Austerity, Maternal HIV Treatment, and the Elusive End of AIDS in Mozambique

Genitourinary Systems Entangled with Shifting Environments in a Salvadoran Subsistence Farming Community

Interventive Care: Uncertainty, Distributed Agency, and Cesarean Section in a Zika Virus Epidemic

Not Breathing Easy: “Disarticulated Homework” in Asthma Management

Book Reviews

Review of The Medicalization of Marijuana: Legitimacy, Stigma and the Patient Experience. Michelle Newhart and William Dolphin, New York: Routledge, 2019, 302 pp.

Review of Gynecology: The Missing Science of Men's Reproductive Health. Rene Almeling, Oakland: The University of California Press, 2020, 304 pp.

Review of Sustaining Life: AIDS Activism in South Africa. Theodore Powers, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020, 280 pp.

Review of Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals. Jill A. Fisher, New York: NYU Press, 2020, 336 pp.

Review of Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs. Saida Hodžić, Oakland: University of California Press, 2017, 416 pp.

Review of Managing Diabetes: The Cultural Politics of Disease. Jeffrey Bennett, New York: NYU Press, 2019, 272 pp.

Review of Living on the Spectrum: Autism and Youth in Community, Elizabeth Fein, New York: NYU Press, 2020, 293 pp.

Review of Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania. Adrienne E. Strong, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020, 270 pp.

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