The Tedium of Chronic Waiting: Delay, Temporality and Gender in Access to Healthcare in India
Sayendri Panchadhyayi discusses the relationship between waiting, gender and marginalisation in Indian healthcare provision.
‘Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of COVID-19’: Book Review
Susie Russell reviews Viral Loads: Anthropologies of urgency in the time of COVID-19, edited by Lenore Manderson, Nancy J. Burke and Ayo Wahlberg (UCL Press, 2021). There is something eerie about reading Viral Loads
‘How Can It Not Be Fantastic to Be Touched?’
Marie Hallager Andersen and Mette Terp Høybye investigate movement and touch in the hospital environment
‘Metrics: What Counts in Global Health’ reviewed by Dr Megan Wainwright.
‘Metrics: What Counts in Global Health’ edited by Vincanne Adams (Duke University Press, 2016). Metrics: What Counts in Global Health is a collection of ethnographic case studies of the process, effects and limitations of
‘Addicted. Pregnant. Poor’ reviewed by Dr Kwanwook Kim
Addicted. Pregnant. Poor by Kelly Ray Knight (Duke University Press, 2015). This deeply engaging and long standing ethnography conducted from 2007 to 2011 fully discloses the sufferings of women living in daily rent hotels
‘Living and Dying in the Contemporary World: A Compendium’ reviewed by Dr Erica Borgstrom
Living and Dying in the Contemporary World: A Compendium, edited by Veena Das and Clara Han (University of California Press, 2016). Living and Dying in the Contemporary World provides rich insights into and theoretical
‘Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda’ reviewed by Dr Megan Wainwright
Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda edited by Susan Reynold Whyte (Duke University Press, 2014). Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda is an account of the lives of the first generation of people to experience
King Lear in a Kelp Store: An Interdisciplinary Convivium on Papay Westray
Professor Jane Macnaughton writes: How was it that a group of ten philosophers, doctors, lawyers, a priest and an anthropologist, ended up playing Act 1 Scene 1 of King Lear in a renovated kelp