health Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/health/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Fri, 22 May 2026 14:29:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png health Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/health/ 32 32 Health justice two ways: examples from the field https://allegralaboratory.net/health-justice-two-ways-examples-from-the-field/ https://allegralaboratory.net/health-justice-two-ways-examples-from-the-field/#respond Tue, 12 May 2026 15:43:41 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47856 Through storytelling for health, the authors provide examples of different practices designed for justice and connection, community acupuncture and ethnographically informed research.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/health-justice-two-ways-examples-from-the-field/feed/ 0 “You have to do your business, right?”: Politics of regulating maternal health markets in Bangladesh https://allegralaboratory.net/you-have-to-do-your-business-right-politics-of-regulating-maternal-health-markets-in-bangladesh/ https://allegralaboratory.net/you-have-to-do-your-business-right-politics-of-regulating-maternal-health-markets-in-bangladesh/#respond Thu, 13 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43960 Introduction Private health service delivery is becoming increasingly dominant in biomedical landscapes worldwide. In global health circles, private health services […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/you-have-to-do-your-business-right-politics-of-regulating-maternal-health-markets-in-bangladesh/feed/ 0 The sound of the absurd: Learning to listen in the Emergency Room https://allegralaboratory.net/the-sound-of-the-absurd-learning-to-listen-in-the-emergency-room/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-sound-of-the-absurd-learning-to-listen-in-the-emergency-room/#respond Wed, 24 Apr 2024 08:00:16 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41654 It was a crowded, freezing Monday morning in late January, in the large university hospital in northern Italy where I […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-sound-of-the-absurd-learning-to-listen-in-the-emergency-room/feed/ 0 “Great job, mommy!” On the absurdity of teaching Ethiopian women to breastfeed https://allegralaboratory.net/great-job-mommy-on-the-absurdity-of-teaching-ethiopian-women-to-breastfeed/ https://allegralaboratory.net/great-job-mommy-on-the-absurdity-of-teaching-ethiopian-women-to-breastfeed/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:00:37 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41619 One scalding hot June day in 2014 in a remote village health post in North Shewa, Ethiopia, I attended an […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/great-job-mommy-on-the-absurdity-of-teaching-ethiopian-women-to-breastfeed/feed/ 2 Duties of Care, Servicing Debt https://allegralaboratory.net/duties-of-care-servicing-debt/ https://allegralaboratory.net/duties-of-care-servicing-debt/#respond Mon, 18 Sep 2023 06:09:31 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=40591 What better place could there be to think about the interconnections between service, duty and care than the Venetian Palazzo […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/duties-of-care-servicing-debt/feed/ 0 How to use health technologies to “kill one little deer in the dark forest” https://allegralaboratory.net/how-to-use-health-technologies-to-kill-one-little-deer-in-the-dark-forest/ https://allegralaboratory.net/how-to-use-health-technologies-to-kill-one-little-deer-in-the-dark-forest/#respond Fri, 10 Feb 2023 08:00:28 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39729 There is a global push towards making AI more ethical and transparent. As critical contributions on the topic of AI […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/how-to-use-health-technologies-to-kill-one-little-deer-in-the-dark-forest/feed/ 0 Worlds of Care https://allegralaboratory.net/worlds-of-care-by-aaron-jackson/ https://allegralaboratory.net/worlds-of-care-by-aaron-jackson/#respond Tue, 04 Oct 2022 07:37:07 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39461 Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities by Aaron J. Jackson is a self-described […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/worlds-of-care-by-aaron-jackson/feed/ 0 Global health meets sugar capitalism https://allegralaboratory.net/global-health-meets-sugar-capitalism/ https://allegralaboratory.net/global-health-meets-sugar-capitalism/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:50:16 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39290 Cal Biruk explores how technologies of audit and claims to transparency common to both agri-capitalist and global health infrastructures in […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/technologies-of-trust-put-to-the-test/feed/ 0 Trust the food chain, trust the blockchain https://allegralaboratory.net/trust-the-food-chain-trust-the-blockchain/ https://allegralaboratory.net/trust-the-food-chain-trust-the-blockchain/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:20:19 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39404 Using blockchain as a thread, IBM Food Trust tries to stitch the wounds in the global, decentralised food supply chain. […]

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