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Locating Care within the Nascent Infrastructure: Renal Dialysis in Thailand

January, 2017 / By Bo Kyeong Seo

When new epidemics hit us, calls for infrastructural development are renewed. More investment in hospital facilities, medical staff and the […]

January, 2017 / By Claire Beaudevin

Medical genetics has long gone global. From WHO recommendations and travelling bioethics experts and DNA samples, to disease-related Facebook groups

January, 2017 / By Anika König

Gestational surrogacy is a reproductive technology where embryos are produced ‘in-vitro’ in a laboratory and subsequently implanted into the uterus

There are numerous approaches to defining “Global Health” (Brown, Cueto, and Fee 2006; Farmer et al. 2013; Fassin 2012; Janes

January, 2017 / By Judith Beyer

As Allegra’s reviews editor, I am not only dealing with awesome new publications every week, but also get to think

January, 2017 / By M. Gabriela Torres

Politics, law and global agendas all actively shape the kinship bonds that are formed and sometimes dissolved in marriage. To

January, 2017 / By Felix Girke

In early 2015, I followed the case of Rachel Dolezal, the Spokane woman who attempted to pass as black. She

January, 2017 / By Subhashim Goswami

Nayanika Mathur’s Paper Tiger. Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India is an ethnography of the everyday life of

January, 2017 / By Judith Beyer

After a well deserved break during the holiday season, Allegra is back and full of energy for yet another exciting

December, 2016 / By Jason Danely

When I teach undergraduates about ageing in anthropology, I sometimes begin by stating the very mundane fact that none of