The sound of the absurd: Learning to listen in the Emergency Room
It was a crowded, freezing Monday morning in late January, in the large university hospital in northern Italy where I was leading my fieldwork between…
Read MoreIt was a crowded, freezing Monday morning in late January, in the large university hospital in northern Italy where I was leading my fieldwork between…
Read MoreOne scalding hot June day in 2014 in a remote village health post in North Shewa, Ethiopia, I attended an event intended to provide…
Read MoreWhat better place could there be to think about the interconnections between service, duty and care than the Venetian Palazzo Vendramin dei Carmini? The…
Read MoreThere is a global push towards making AI more ethical and transparent. As critical contributions on the topic of AI have pointed out: even…
Read MoreWorlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities by Aaron J. Jackson is a self-described “meditation on fathers’ everyday…
Read MoreCal Biruk explores how technologies of audit and claims to transparency common to both agri-capitalist and global health infrastructures in Malawi paradoxically proliferate suspicion….
Read MoreDrawing on participant observation of COVID-19 tests and blood donation, this article demonstrates how micro-interactions between medical personnel and laypeople can constitute trust, grounding…
Read MoreUsing blockchain as a thread, IBM Food Trust tries to stitch the wounds in the global, decentralised food supply chain. The creation of trust…
Read MoreHow do globalised health regimes create and shape landscapes of medical regulation and patient safety? This essay asks about the many ways in which…
Read MoreUpon entering the Orthodox Christian cemetery in Siret, a town on the Romanian-Ukrainian border, we were met with neatly kept marvel gravestones, occasionally adorned…
Read MoreAn introductory note: In the short space of time that has elapsed since I first drafted this essay – in the last week of…
Read MoreAs the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage many places in the world, it is hard to imagine a book that is more timely or…
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