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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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Confianza: COVID care at the intersection of kinship, community, and biomedicine
- Megan Raschig
An Elusive Animal: Trust in an Uncertain Present
- Elizabeth Storer and Nikita Simpson
Staying Put: Principled Immobility
- Alyshia Gálvez

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International Journal for the Analysis of Health. Official publication of the Society for Medical Anthropology.

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17 Aug

"Shifting focus from transactional trust in institutions or supposed biomedical panacea, to relational confianza with others, can help... to realize the primacy of localized ethical formations and social relations in navigating profound societal challenges."

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5 Jul

Deadline Extended! Please share widely: Applications for the position of Book Reviews Editor will be accepted until July 15. If you have thought of dipping your toes into editing, please apply and reach out to @daisydeomampo with any questions!
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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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Volume 36, Issue 3 (September 2022)

Articles

Debilitated Lifeworlds: Women's Narratives of Forced Sterilization as Delinking from Reproductive Rights

“I Do Not Have to Hurt My Body Anymore”: Reproductive Chronicity and Sterilization as Ambivalent Care in Rural North India

Homage to Ebola Fighters: Black Labor and Humanitarian Media Campaigns

Anachronic: Viral Socialities and Project Time among HIV Support Groups in Barbados

Blood and Blood: Anti‐retroviral Therapy, Masculinity, and Redemption among Adolescent Boys in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa

Kamzori: Aging, Care, and Alienation in the Post‐pastoral Himalaya

Recursive Debility: Symptoms, Patient Activism, and the Incomplete Medicalization of ME/CFS

Book Reviews

Review of Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender. stef m. shuster, New York: NYU Press, 2021, 240 pp.

Review of Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi. Dwaipayan Banerjee, Durham: Duke University Press, 2020, 240 pp.

Review of Waithood: Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing. Marcia C. Inhorn and Nancy J. Smith‐Hefner, eds., New York: Berghahn Books, 2020, 414 pp.

Review of Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era. Natali Valdez, Oakland: University of California Press, 2021, 284 pp.

Review of Rabies in the Streets: Interspecies Camaraderie in Urban India. Deborah Nadal, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020, 278 pp.

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