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Salih Can Açiksöz's Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey
At the 2021 AAA meetings, the Society for Medical Anthropology Awarded the New Millennium Book Award to Salih Can Açiksöz, for his 2019 monograph, Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey. This award, given every two years, recognizes “the author whose work is judged to be the most significant and… (Continue Reading)
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Scott Stonington's The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand
At the 2021 AAA meetings, the Society for Medical Anthropology Awarded the New Millennium Book Award to Scott Stonington, for his 2020 monograph, The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand. This award, given every two years, recognizes “the author whose work is judged to be the most significant… (Continue Reading)
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Resistance, Resilience, and the Sojourner Syndrome: A Forum in Honor of Leith Mullings
This is a special MAQ forum on "Resistance and Resilience: The Sojourner Syndrome and the Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem," by Leith Mullings, published in Transforming Anthropology in 2005. … (Continue Reading)
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Omar Dewachi’s Ungovernable Life
At the 2019 AAA meetings in Vancouver, the Society for Medical Anthropology Awarded the New Millennium Book Award to Omar Dewachi, for his 2017 monograph, Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq. This award, given every two years, recognizes “the author whose work is judged to be the most significant and… (Continue Reading)
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LISSA Graphic Novel
Lissa is a graphic novel written by academics Sherine Hamdy and Coleman Nye, and illustrated by artists Sarula Bao and Caroline Brewer. The complete graphic novel was released in 2017 as the debut title of the ethnoGRAPHIC series published by the University of Toronto Press. Please enjoy the following engagements with this… (Continue Reading)
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Ed Yong’s I Contain Multitudes
Last summer, popular science writer Ed Yong published his book on the microbiome to great acclaim. The book, I Contain Multitudes: the Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life, became a bestseller and showed up on countless “Best of” book lists for 2016. Since many medical anthropologists work on… (Continue Reading)