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Histórias of Zika by Luísa Reis-Castro
For English click here. Era o ano de 1947. Em uma floresta chamada Zika, em Uganda, liderados pelo médico-entomologista escocês Alexander J. Haddow, pesquisadores colocaram macacos-rhesus em...
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The Protective Dualism: Maternal Knowledge Practices of the Zika Crisis in...
For Spanish click here. “So, we have had other mosquito-borne illnesses for a long time, like dengue and chikungunya, and now all of a sudden we should delay childbearing and tourists should not come...
View ArticleCovid-19 and global health, seen from France: the end of a “great divide”? by...
Note — this text is an updated version of an article published in French by Analyse Opinion Critique (AOC) on April 3rd, 2020. On March 13th, 2020, an aircraft lands at the airport in Rome and stops...
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‘A world that counts’: The rise of infographics in global maternal health...
Infographics have become a ubiquitous feature of the contemporary global health landscape, crowding the presentations and exhibition halls of conferences, the pages of annual reports, and the websites...
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The Hospital Multiple: Introduction by Fanny Chabrol
Since COVID-19 has come to haunt the globe, hospitals in all their guises have featured centrally in the pandemic response. As the flagships of health systems, hospitals have rapidly become the...
View ArticleDoing and Seeing: Cultivating a “Fractured Habitus” through Reflexive...
Introduction The tension between critical theoretical innovation and on-the-ground, practical application has animated intense debate in medical anthropology (Scheper-Hughes 1990). Epistemological and...
View ArticleAfrica, the Cutting Edge for Health Care: Lessons from The Continent for the...
While the United States is often celebrated as a global leader in health expertise, it currently leads the world in COVID-19 infections and deaths. African countries, often considered under-resourced...
View ArticleLightning strikes, or how an object of global health is made by Megan Vaughan
When we were children my mother always told us there was nothing to fear from thunderstorms. But it was hard not to notice that she did so whilst running around the house disconnecting every...
View Article‘Silicon health’ for Africa: Understanding the rise and impact of drone...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), better known as drones, are on the rise. During the ongoing corona crisis their potential to either monitor curfews or to provide contactless deliveries is...
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Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich’s Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and...
Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. 288 pages. Background Dr. Alexandra Brewis & Dr. Amber...
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