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...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...

...Michelle C. Velasquez-Potts; Shamus Khan; Madiha Tahir Since 2002, prisoners at Guantánamo Bay detention camp have been force-fed as punishment for hunger striking, prompting the question of at what point the medical clinic becomes a site of punitive suffering. This essay examines force-feeding...

... cultural shifts accompanied these medical debates and developments. Randomized controlled trials now dominate as an evidentiary form in tuberculosis control with implications for how global health efforts roll out across diverse cultural contexts. A pharmaceutical approach drives the international export...

...Diego Cagüeñas On September 11, 2001, at least two hundred people jumped to their deaths from the top stories of New York City’s World Trade Center. According to the New York Medical Examiner’s Office, they are not “jumpers” because they did not wake up with the intention of committing suicide...

... modes of visuality at play in border crossing. Subsequently, we analyze two ways of visualizing cross-border migration. The first—medical visualization—works by permeating space with a contrast medium. The second—statistical visualization—works by composing systemic migration patterns out of migration...

...Jenna Grant Abstract This article is an ethnography of color and black‐and‐white in medical images of a particular kind—prenatal ultrasound—in a particular place—Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It is also a meditation on histories and theorizations of color. It moves from the discourse and practice...

..., but that it stakes a claim for the ethical virtue of exposure and vulnerability. That these viral commonwealths apprehend not exactly Covid itself, but the risk of infection, as a figure for the historicity of Blackness under the necropolitics of medical apartheid and social death. In order to stage...

... in society had produced between the state’s technoscientific focus on making the radiation visible and people’s diverse everyday experience of radiation in various aspects of life. Ethnographically retelling the struggles of a medical doctor who came to understand the manifold consequences of the accident...

...Figure 8 Leardal with Resusci Anne. Credit: Laerdal Medical. ...

... to recognize and debate the schoolgirls’ condition as a case of mass poisoning that was caused by harmful antigens and criminal agents. This essay offers an alternative to this medical‐juridical framing. It locates the incapacitation of the schoolgirls in relation to the limits of debates about women...

... for a dance show in London that had been scheduled several weeks ago. The dance began, as planned, with an invocation to Ganesh. Controls Tightened On Medical Waste Disposal* Barbara Van Arsdale The discovery of medical waste on New York and New Jersey beaches in the summer of 1987 and 1988...

... . Altered conditions:Disease, medicine, and storytelling . New York:Routledge. Foucault, Michel. 1975 . The birth of the clinic: An archaeology of medical perception , translated by A. M. Sheridan Smith. New York: Vintage. Goffman, Erving. 1961 . Asylums: Essays on the social situation of mental...

... social inequali- ties because of how they use this classification. Given the rising prevalence of diabetes, a critical analysis of its socioeconomic contexts and the organization of medical knowledge about it is needed. This essay picks apart the “typing” of people entailed in diabetes...

... : 1201 -18. Foucault, Michel. 1975 . The birth of the clinic; an archaeology of medical perception , translated by A. M. Sheridan Smith. New York: Vintage Books. French, Howard W. 1996 . Migrant workers take AIDS risk home to Niger. New York Times , 8 February, 43 . Gado, Boureima...

...: Well, this is a personal story. While working in a lab in the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), medical center I met Richard Lock, who became my lifelong partner. He had done judo at Cambridge and been captain of Cambridge’s judo team, and he was still very interested in that, so he went...

... version of the group began to undergo an intense process of resocializa- tion mediated by psychologists and nurses. Patients who wanted to stay in the institution had to change their antisocial behaviors and adhere to medical treat- ments...

...Figure 2 Electrotype of Koch’s syringe, used to inoculate patients (from British Medical Journal 1890: 1197) ...

...; Ilana Löwy, Between Bench and Bedside: Science, Healing, and Interleukin-2 in a Cancer Ward (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996); Helen Valier and Carsten Timmermans, “Clinical Trials and the Reorganization of Medical Research in Post–Second World War Britain,” Medical History 52...