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Cures, Tuberculosis, and Deterritorialized Biomedical Narratives

Paul H. Mason, Greg Fox, Jennifer Ho, Chris Degeling
Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 269–276.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4310906
Published: 01 May 2018
... of a capsular cure to the neglect of providing sanatorium care, addressing disease transmission, and curbing drug resistance. In response to Venkat’s essay, Paul Mason and colleagues highlight how a biomedical narrative about tuberculosis became deterritorialized from high-income countries where new...
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Of Cures and Curses: Toward a Critique of Curative Reason

Bharat Jayram Venkat
Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 277–282.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4310918
Published: 01 May 2018
... had intemperately expended on Rohini, leaving no remainder for his other wives. 4 Here I might briefly mention Mason et al.’s (2018 : 000) statement that “the deterritorialization of antimicrobials from the United States and Europe meant that the biomedical narrative about tuberculosis...
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Loss and Gain in Translation: Financial Epidemiology on the South Side of Chicago

Jennifer Karlin
Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 523–550.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2144634
Published: 01 September 2013
...Jennifer Karlin This article offers an analysis of how a prestigious academic medical center located in a poor urban neighborhood endeavored to meet its obligation to produce new biomedical knowledge while struggling with the financial constraints incurred by its geography. Located on the South...
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Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship

Rayna Rapp, Faye Ginsburg
Public Culture (2001) 13 (3): 533–556.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-3-533
Published: 01 September 2001
...- abled children and as anthropologists interested in reproduction, kinship, and social activism—we were struck by narratives like Oe’s and their proliferation in a world in which constructions of the body and identity are increasingly mediated by biomedical...
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Black Mass; or, a Billion Plagues and More

Travis Alexander
Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 195–217.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9584708
Published: 01 May 2022
...Travis Alexander Abstract This essay asks how we are to think the ethics of Black Lives Matter protest amid conditions of contagion in the summer of 2020. It argues that the multitude instantiated in these events didn't simply tolerate the biomedical damage that could result from such proximity...
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Editors’ Letter

Eric Klinenberg, Andrew Lakoff
Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 370–373.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2144589
Published: 01 September 2013
... of transformation. Our orientation to another realm of knowledge is the focus of this issue’s Dossier, which was organized by Kaushik Sunder Rajan and Sabina Leonelli. The essays assembled by Sunder Rajan and Leonelli are situated at a moment that combines prodigious investment in biomedical research with rapid...
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Postindustrial Metabolism: Fat Knowledge

Hannah Landecker
Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 495–522.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2144625
Published: 01 September 2013
... metabolism, as it is emerging in the biomedical sciences now. 1 Such an analysis is relevant not just to the study of metabolism but to the emphasis today on “translational” research, particularly in American biomedicine: research that moves quickly from the realm of the laboratory to that of industry...
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Behind the Dispensary's Prosperous Façade: Imagining the State in Rural Niger

Adeline Masquelier
Public Culture (2001) 13 (2): 267–292.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-2-267
Published: 01 May 2001
.... Social Science and Medicine 38 : 1069 -73. Jaguaribe, Beatriz. 1999 . Modernist ruins: National narratives and architectural forms. Public Culture 11 : 294 -312. Klimek, Cassandra Y., and Georges Peters. 1995 . Une politique du médicament pour l'Afrique: Contraintes et choix . Paris...
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Beyond Bare Life: AIDS, (Bio)Politics, and the Neoliberal Order

Jean Comaroff
Public Culture (2007) 19 (1): 197–219.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2006-030
Published: 01 January 2007
.... Treichler, Paula A. 1988. AIDS, homophobia, and biomedical discourse: An epidemic of signification. In AIDS: Cultural analysis/cultural acitvism, edited by D. Crimp. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ____. 1999. How to have theory in an epidemic: Cultural chonicles of AIDS. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press...
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Modernist Infrastructure and the Vital Systems Security of Water: Singapore’s Pluripotent Climate Futures

Jerome Whitington
Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 415–441.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3427511
Published: 01 May 2016
... 2012; Whitington 2013 , 2016 ). Invoking a biomedical metaphor, I introduce the idea of pluripotential climate futures as a critique of Singapore’s deterministic engineering for future climate risks and its centralized control approach to adaptation planning. Singapore’s planners assume...
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Desert Islands: Ransom of Humanity

Neni Panourgiá
Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 395–421.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-031
Published: 01 May 2008
... in the Nazi camps that preceded them. The similari­ ties in the narratives of the survivors are uncanny, and there is no reason for us to believe that the narratives are the product of narrative cross-fertilization of experiences because (1...
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The Color of Pain

Andrew Irving
Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 293–319.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2008-030
Published: 01 May 2009
..., as such for its own sake? That would surely be an absurd undertaking. A story which read: ‘Time passed, it ran on, the time flowed 299 Public Culture onward’ and so forth — no one in his senses could consider that a narrative...
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Jews, Lice, and History

Hugh Raffles
Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 521–566.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-008
Published: 01 September 2007
... appeared as bacteria in similar biologistic narratives. 16. Bein, “Jewish Parasite,” 12. 17. For a series of exemplary antisemitic statements from Proudhon and his associates, as well as from Bakunin — for whom Jews...
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Libyan Money, Academic Missions, and Public Social Science

Craig Calhoun
Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 9–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1443538
Published: 01 January 2012
... news coverage of Libya quickly developed the narrative of a march to war and became an important factor in the decision of several Western powers and NATO to provide military support to the anti-­Qaddafi forces.30 It is striking that Western powers reluctant to intervene directly in so many...
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