While we’ve run many book reviews and conference reports in Somatosphere over the course of its first five years, many of the posts we call “features” don’t fit as clearly into distinct categories. In what follows we list a selection (though certainly not all) of these posts from the past five years. They range from research and fieldwork reports, to thought pieces, to engagements with contemporary events, to syllabi, and interviews. While some are organized by genre (interviews and teaching resources), or as specific series, we’ve grouped others around broad topics. Enjoy!
Psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health
Stephanie Lloyd, Field Notes from Paris: Social Pathology and the Globalization of Sentiments
Neely Myers, Call for Research: Ethnography, Psychosis and At-Risk Groups
Eugene Raikhel, The Globalization of Biopsychiatry
Eugene Raikhel, More on Exporting American Madness
Doerte Bemme and Nicole D’souza, Global Mental Health and Its Discontents
Nev Jones, Agency, Biogenetic Discourse and Psychiatric Disorder
Constance Cummings, DSM-5: Plus ça change…
Eugene Raikhel, Give Me the Fear!
Sarah Pinto, The Dance – Medicine and the Idea of Movement
Jeff Snodgrass, Toward a Neuroanthropology of Immersive Online Gaming and Cyberdependence
The political economy and everyday life of pharmaceuticals
Eugene Raikhel, Grandma’s Little Helper
Kalman Applbaum, The Colonization of Pharmaceutical Science by Marketing
Kalman Applbaum, Pharmaceutical Marketing, Capitalism, and Medicine: A Primer (Part I, Part II, Part III)
Eugene Raikhel, The Prevalent Placebo
Eugene Raikhel, Moving Beyond Race in Pharmacogenomics?
Kalman Applbaum, Cases for Overhauling Pharmaceutical Governance
Kalman Applbaum, Warning Label Spin: Further Reflections on What the FDA is Up Against
Kalman Applbaum, PDUFA, Drug Safety, and Marketing
Kalman Applbaum, Pharmaceutical Marketing and Abstraction of Consumer Needs
Kalman Applbaum, Pharmaceutical Branding is Just Getting Started (Part I, Part II)
Kalman Applbaum, Four Good Questions about Pharmaceutical Industry Reform
Roberto Abadie, Exotic Guinea Pigs at Home: An Ethnography of Professional Research Subjects in the US
Liz Oloft, Prozac in the Closet
Liz Oloft, Learning to Love Meds: Americans’ Attitudes to Psych Meds may have Improved Since Late 90s
Kalman Applbaum, Clean Pharma Crusader: Senator Chuck Grassley’s Enigmatic Campaign to Combat Rising Healthcare Costs
Carl Elliott, A Psychiatric Research Scandal and an Accidental Activist
Tazin Karim, Meducating Our Children: The Moral Influence of Adderall on Education, Parenting, and Treatment
Kalman Applbaum’s Risperdal on Trial series
Risperdal on Trial, Texas Style
The Risperdal Trial in Texas, Continued: Establishing not just facts, but the yardstick by which facts are to be measured, and other matters
A Matter of Trust: Clinical Trial Evidence vs. Physicians’ Judgment in the Courtroom
The Banality of Corporate Corruption: Janssen’s Reimbursement Department on the Stand
Lucre and the Law: A Money Narrative of Who Stands to Gain from Suing a Pharmaceutical Company
Transcriptions: HIV, Science and the Social
A collaborative forum for critical enquiry on HIV/AIDS and global health: experiment, ethics, and practice
Thomas Cousins, Release of Report on “HIV and the Law” by the Global Commission on HIV and the Law
Agata Pacho, Treatment as Prevention: recognising the creative potential of antiretroviral medications
Samuel Friedman, Recently-funded Transdisciplinary Integrated HIV Prevention Project: Overview and challenges
Tsitsi Masvawure, “Abstinence doesn’t work, so use condoms”: Critical responses to Christian youth sexualities and HIV prevention in Africa
Sarah Bernays, Uncomfortable research: expectations and experiences in examinations of HIV/AIDS and ‘hope’ in Serbia
Steven Robins, From saving lives to cutting costs? Challenges for a new era for activism
Hans Huang, HIV testing, neoliberal governance, and the new moral regime of gay health in Taiwan
Judy Auerbach, On “Activism”
Marsha Rosengarten, PrEP: time to rethink prevention, effectiveness and ethics?
Ippolytos Kalofonos, Therapeutic Enclaves in Central Mozambique? Lives Saved, Livelihoods Lost
The anthropology of political subjectivity
Sadeq Rahimi, Political Subjectivity and Mental Health
Sadeq Rahimi, Political Subjectivity and (Jameson’s) Political Unconscious
Sadeq Rahimi, The Unconscious: Metaphor and Metonymy
Sadeq Rahimi, The (Lacanian) Unconscious: Structure and Negative Ontology
Sadeq Rahimi, The Hegelian Subject: Negativity and the Desire for Desire
Sadeq Rahimi, Political Subjectivity – In Action
Sadeq Rahimi, Subjectivity at the Intersection of Metaphoric and Metonymic Functions
Infectious diseases and multispecies ethnography
Ann Kelly, Mosquito Huts; Wundercabinets and Social Models
Erin Koch, Microbes and Anthropology
Erin Koch, Emerging Thoughts on Swine Flu
Erin Koch, Swine Flu, Cont.: Mini-Post
Eugene Raikhel, Anthropologists on H1N1 Flu
Natalie Porter, Bird Flu: The Circulation of Life and Death in a Postspecies World
Eugene Raikhel, Turning to Animals
Michael Oldani, The Rise of Multispecies Ethnography
Bodies: eating, sleeping, enhanced, disabled
Emily Yates-Doerr, Complex Carbohydrates: On the Relevance of Ethnography in Nutrition Education
Simon Williams and Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Longing for Sleep: Assessing the Place of Sleep in the 21st Century (Part I, Part II, Part III)
Silvia Camporesi, Caster Semenya and Athletic Excellence: A Critique of Olympic Sex-Testing
Seth Messinger, Medical Anthropology in a Military Treatment Facility
Michele Friedner, From disability stigma to disability value: Notes from research on disability in urban India
Health and medicine 20 years after the Soviet Union
Eugene Raikhel, Health and medicine 20 years after the Soviet Union
Shelly Yankovskyy, Mental Health Care in Ukraine: Twenty Years after the Soviet Union
Anna Geltzer, The Rise and Fall of the Extrasense
Inna Leykin, ‘Population Prescriptions:’ Pronatalism and the Fear of Underpopulation in Post-Soviet Russia
Elizabeth King, Social Vulnerability, Health Behaviors, and Political Responsibility: HIV Testing and Treatment for Female Sex Workers in St. Petersburg, Russia
Politics and technologies
Chris Garces, Preamble to an Ethnography of the People’s Mic
Sarah D. Phillips, Chernobyl Forever
Sarah D. Phillips, Fukushima is not Chernobyl? Don’t Be so Sure
Mary Jean Hande, From Narrowed Veins to Liberation: An Anthropological Analysis of the Canadian Liberation Therapy Movement
Pierre Minn, The Coordination and Un-coordination of International Medical Aid in Haiti
Ari Samsky, Populations, Sovereignty, Drugs
Ryan J. Cook, “I Didn’t Want to be One of the Contaminated People”: Confronting a Mystery Illness in a Rural American Landscape
Saiba Varma, Springtime in Kashmir: A Tale of Two Protests
Anthropology and/as/of Science
Jacob Hickman, The “Science” of Anthropology?
Eugene Raikhel, They Blinded Me with Science: Further Thoughts on the AAA Controversy
Erin Koch, “Science” versus “Public Understanding”? Some Thoughts on the Distinction…
Mark Robinson, The Privatization of Neuroscience: The University, The State and the Moral Aims of Science
Theresa MacPhail, Epidemiology, the “Data Deluge,” and the Problem of “Good” Information
Celina Callahan-Kapoor, Medicine and Science, Unpredicted
Methodology, collaboration and conversation across the disciplines and professions
Eugene Raikhel, Critical Neuroscience and Anthropological Engagement
Anthony Stavrianakis, Public Debate and the Conflict of the Faculties
Nick Shapiro, On Collaborating with Journalists
Kimberly Sue, Are IRBs a Stumbling Block for Engaged Anthropology?
Ita Irizarry, We’re Not the Enemy!: Mending Fences Between Researchers and the IRB (Response to Kimberly Sue, Are IRBs a Stumbling Block for Engaged Anthropology?)
Anthony Stavrianakis and Gaymon Bennett, On Concept Work
Des Fitzgerald, On the Pragmatics and Politics of Collaborative Work between the Social and Life Sciences
Biographies, histories and archaeologies
Eugene Raikhel, The Berlin Wall as Metaphor and Diagnosis
Kalman Applbaum, Psychoanalytic Metaphors and Mythical Medical Realities in Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Contribution to Medical Anthropology
Wenzel Geissler, Ann Kelley, Guillaume Lachenal and John Maton, The Archaeology of Past Futures, or Fieldwork by Fragments
Gillaume Lachenal, Kin Porn
Nicolas Henckes and Anne Lovell, Robert Castel (1933-2013)
Teaching resources
Eugene Raikhel, Resources for Teaching Medical Anthropology
Ian Whitmarsh, Medical Governance, Culture, and Subjectivities: a Syllabus
Eugene Raikhel, Teaching Anthropology of the Body
Janelle Taylor, On Teaching “Perspectives in Medical Anthropology”
Chris Garces, Teaching Critique of Humanitarianism: A Syllabus for Comparative Study
Eugene Raikhel, Syllabus: Culture, Mental Health and Psychiatry
Jeff Snodgrass, Syllabi on Culture and Mental Health
Daniel Sharp, Educational Video Database on Genetic/Reproductive Technologies & Social Issues
Rebecca Prentice, Medical anthropology films
Eugene Raikhel, Videos of “Cultural Psychiatry: A Critical Introduction”
Top of the Heap
Janelle Taylor and Hannah Landecker
Emily Martin
Jamie Saris and Elizabeth Wilson
Richard Keller
Interviews
Eugene Raikhel, An Interview with Marcia Inhorn (2010)
Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Thinking Through Other Worlds: An Interview with Mei Zhan (2010)
Nick Shapiro, A Biographical Interview with Byron Good (2010)
Neely Myers, The Afflictions Series: An Interview with Ethnographic Filmmaker Robert Lemelson (2013)
Karen A. Frenkel, A Conversation with Karen Nakamura (2013)
Talia Gordon, A Conversation with Paul Brodwin (2013)
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