Mara Buchbinder is a medical anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her new book, Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted …
Read More >This post is published in conjunction with the Latin American Studies Association congress in Barcelona. Check for other posts from the conference. #LASA2018 by Alvaro Jarrín, author of The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital …
Read More >by Mara Buchbinder, author of All in Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain This guest post is published as part of a series of author interviews in relation to the American Anthropological Association conference in Denver this …
Read More >by Janis Jenkins, author of Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness This guest post is published in advance of the American Anthropological Association conference in Denver. Check back every day for new posts through the …
Read More >“People sometimes refer to [Dr. Paul Farmer] as a hero, saint, madman, or genius….but the essential thing about him is that he listens to his patients”, writes Haun Saussy, editor of Partner …
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