Second Spear is a discipline-focused blog where essay format explorations of medical anthropology themes and topics are shared. Second Spear essays should be presented as collections, curated by an editor or group. These collections might emerge from conference panels, workshops, or other collectives working together on a topic. Second Spear aims to provide insight and explanations that go beyond the obvious, and that call for multiple perspectives and explanations. We don’t want to include a call for submissions since we are going to focus mostly on Critical Care.