As 2012 draws to a close, we’d like to thank all of our editors, regular contributors and guests for their hard work on Somatosphere. We had a great year, and without all of your contributions, it wouldn’t have been possible. This year saw the launch of Transcriptions, a forum on HIV/AIDS, global health and the social sciences edited by Thomas Cousins and Lindsey Reynolds and hosted by Somatosphere. We also saw excellent contributions in all of our other sections, features, book reviews (edited by Todd Meyers), In the Journals (edited by Aaron Seaman) and Web Roundups (edited by Branwyn Poleykett). You can find all of these posts listed below, organized by section.
In 2013 – the 5th year for the site – we’ll have many new features, interviews and book reviews. Please visit us often and contact us at admin AT somatosphere DOT net if you are interested in getting involved.
Features, thoughts and research reports
Kalman Applbaum, Clean Pharma Crusader: Senator Chuck Grassley’s Enigmatic Campaign to Combat Rising Healthcare Costs
Mary Jean Hande, From Narrowed Veins to Liberation: An Anthropological Analysis of the Canadian Liberation Therapy Movement
Jeff Snodgrass, Toward a Neuroanthropology of Immersive Online Gaming and Cyberdependence
Elizabeth King, Social Vulnerability, Health Behaviors, and Political Responsibility: HIV Testing and Treatment for Female Sex Workers in St. Petersburg, Russia
Constance Cummings, DSM-5: Plus ça change…
Thomas Cousins, Release of Report on “HIV and the Law” by the Global Commission on HIV and the Law (cross-posted on Transcriptions)
Doerte Bemme and Nicole D’souza, Global Mental Health and Its Discontents
Silvia Camporesi, Caster Semenya and Athletic Excellence: A Critique of Olympic Sex-Testing
Kimberly Sue, Are IRBs a Stumbling Block for Engaged Anthropology?
Nev Jones, Agency, Biogenetic Discourse and Psychiatric Disorder
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
Nick Shapiro, On Collaborating with Journalists
Tazin Karim, Meducating Our Children: The Moral Influence of Adderall on Education, Parenting, and Treatment
Sadeq Rahimi, Subjectivity at the Intersection of Metaphoric and Metonymic Functions
Kalman Applbaum’s Risperdal on Trial series
Risperdal on Trial, Texas Style (January 11, 2012)
The Risperdal Trial in Texas, Continued: Establishing not just facts, but the yardstick by which facts are to be measured, and other matters (January 12, 2012)
A Matter of Trust: Clinical Trial Evidence vs. Physicians’ Judgment in the Courtroom (January 13, 2012)
The Banality of Corporate Corruption: Janssen’s Reimbursement Department on the Stand (January 15, 2012)
Lucre and the Law: A Money Narrative of Who Stands to Gain from Suing a Pharmaceutical Company (January 17, 2012)
Book Reviews
Claire Wendland, A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School; Reviewed by Liese Pruitt
Maurice Godelier, The Metamorphoses of Kinship; Reviewed by Leo Coleman
Sarah D. Phillips, Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine; Reviewed by Jessica Robbins
Georges Canguilhem, Writings on Medicine (translated and with an introduction by Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers); Book announcement by Eugene Raikhel
P. Sean Brotherton, Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba; Reviewed by Amy Cooper
Pamela E. Klassen, Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity; Reviewed by Wilson Will
E. Summerson Carr, Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety; Reviewed by Jennifer Carroll
Transcriptions
In April, Thomas Cousins and Lindsey Reynolds launched Transcriptions, a collaborative online forum on the intersections of HIV/AIDS, global health, and the social sciences. Transcriptions provides a forum for recent journal publications (In the Journals), news from around the web and in print (Broadsheets), book reviews (On the Shelves), interviews with scholars (Dialogues), announcements regarding conferences, calls for papers, seminars, and other relevant events (Announcements). In addition to offering analyses of emerging issues, Transcriptions also hosts a number of series, including: Methodologies, Keywords, Infected Affects, History and HIV, and Social Dynamics of Biomedical Prevention.
Transcriptions – In the Journals (Thomas Cousins)
May
July Part I and Part II
Transcriptions – Broadsheets (Abigail Baim Lance)
May
June
Run-Up to the 2012 AIDS Conference (July 22-27, Washington D.C.)
After AIDS 2012: Tracking AIDS Conference 2012
November
Transcriptions – Methodologies
Sarah Bernays, Uncomfortable Research: Expectations and Experiences in Examinations of HIV/AIDS and ‘Hope’ in Serbia
Transcriptions – Keywords
Judy Auerbach, On “Activism”
Steve Robins, From Saving Lives to Cutting Costs? Challenges for a New Era for Activism
Transcriptions – Infected Affects
Hans Huang, HIV Testing, Neoliberal Governance and the New Moral Regime of Gay Health in Taiwan
Tsitsi Masvawure, “Abstinence doesn’t work, so use condoms”: Critical responses to Christian youth sexualities and HIV prevention in Africa
Transcriptions – Social Dynamics of Biomedical Prevention
Marsha Rosengarten, PrEP: Time to Rethink Prevention, Effectiveness, and Ethics?
Agata Pacho, Treatment as Prevention: Recognizing the Creative Potential of Antiretroviral Medications
Transcriptions – Features
Samuel Friedman, Recently-Funded Transdisciplinary Integrated HIV Prevention Project: Overview and Challenges
For more information on contributors to Transcriptions, go here; for more information on submissions, go here.
Conference Reports
Tazin Karim, Medical Imaginaries and Technological Futures: Transformations of Subjectivities in Biomedicine – Report of the activities of the Science, Technology and Medicine Interest Group at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science
Constance Cummings, Report from the Annual Meeting of One Mind for Research Campaign: Curing Brain Disease
Jennifer Carroll, Ann Dill, Jonathan Stillo, and Hubert Wierciński, Reports from the Second Annual Health in Transition Conference
Matthew Schneider, Report from the Conference on Structural Competency held at NYU’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis on March 23, 2012
Constantin Tranulis, Report from the 8th International Conference on Early Psychosis
Lectures – Video and Audio
Didier Fassin, “On Resentment and Ressentiment” – Roger Allan Moore Lecture delivered on February 3, 2012 at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Ian Hacking, “The New Me: What Biotechnology may do to Personal Identity” – Derry Interdisciplinary Lecture delivered on October 24, 2011 at Huron University College
Plenary sessions (on genetic/reproductive technologies and social issues) of the 2010 and 2011 Tarrytown Meetings.
Tanya Luhrmann, “Hearing Voices in Accra and Chennai: How Culture Makes a Difference to Psychiatric Experience” – lecture delivered at the interdisciplinary conference on Culture, Mind and Brain: Emerging Concepts, Methods, and Applications
Laurence Kirmayer, “Revisioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health” – talk given at the Comparative Human Development Department, University of Chicago
Global mental health videos – hosted by McGill University’s Division of Transcultural Psychiatry
In the Journals
January (Amy Cooper)
March Part I (Melanie Boeckmann) and Part II (Klaartje Klaver)
April (Aaron Seaman)
May (Lara Braff)
July Part I and Part II (Melanie Boeckmann)
August (Aaron Seaman)
September Part I (Melanie Boeckmann) and Part II (Aaron Seaman)
October Part I (Lara Braff) and Part II (Aaron Seaman)
Special Journal Issues
“Reinvigorating Dialogue between Phenomenological and Psychoanalytic Anthropologies”: a special issue of Ethos (Eugene Raikhel)
“The Anthropology of Pharmaceuticals: Cultural and Pharmacological Efficacies in Context”: a special section of Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry (Eugene Raikhel)
“Rethinking Cultural Competence”: a special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry (Aaron Seaman)
“Ethnographies of Suicide”: a special issue of Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry (Aaron Seaman)
“Emotions, Health, and Well-Being”: a special virtual issue of Social History of Medicine (Aaron Seaman)
“Irrational Reproduction: New Intersections of Politics, Gender, Race, and Class Across the North-South Divide”: a special issue of Anthropology & Medicine (Aaron Seaman)
“Medicine, Bodies, Politics, Experimentation and Emergence”: a special issue of Body & Society (Aaron Seaman)
“Communities and Global Mental Health”: a special section of Transcultural Psychiatry (Eugene Raikhel)
Web-Roundups
January (Branwyn Poleykett) Cosmetic surgery, securitization of scientific data
June (Cassandra Hartblay) Dr. Jim Yong Kim at the World Bank and Dr. Robert Spitzer’s revocation
July and August Mega Roundup (Eugene Raikhel and Judith Mazdra) the Aurora shootings, the Olympics, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Jonah Lehrer, mental health, health care, and much, much more…
October (Melanie Boeckmann) Big Data, and the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE)
November (Cassandra Hartblay) Hurricane Sandy relief and Marijuana Legalization
December (Branwyn Poleykett) Global disease burden
Teaching Resources
Resources for Teaching Medical Anthropology (Eugene Raikhel)
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