Arabian Medical Genetics: Of Rare Disorders and Decreasing Oil Rent
Medical genetics has long gone global. From WHO recommendations and travelling bioethics experts and DNA samples, to disease-related Facebook groups […]
Embryos on the Move: Transnational Networks of Surrogacy
Gestational surrogacy is a reproductive technology where embryos are produced ‘in-vitro’ in a laboratory and subsequently implanted into the uterus
Medical Technologies and Infrastructure: Exploring Im/Mobility and Dis/Connectivity in “Global Health”
There are numerous approaches to defining “Global Health” (Brown, Cueto, and Fee 2006; Farmer et al. 2013; Fassin 2012; Janes
ANTHROPOLOGY FOR AN AGEING PLANET
When I teach undergraduates about ageing in anthropology, I sometimes begin by stating the very mundane fact that none of
Ageing and technology: Whose concerns?
I take issue with innovation. To be sure, I admire the creative and practical potential of it, which is what
Ageing and Care in a ‘Man’s World’
I am thrown into an image: Two figures climbing steep stone stairs, so tall that I cannot see what lies
Eldercare in South Africa: Dreaming of a White Paper Christmas
About a year ago around Christmas, South African Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi and ANC colleagues released the anticipated White
Counting our Losses: Reflections from a Newton Fund/British Council Workshop on Loss and Displacement
The past is irrecoverable and the past is not past; the past is the resource for the future and the
CLEENIK: A clinic for ethnographic experimentation syndromes
Have you been affected by Ethnographic Experimentation Breakdown (EEB) or Excess of Engagement Stress (EES)? Are you suffering from breach-of-the-canon
Turning cool kids into outlaws – Legal fictions and the management of heroin abuse in post-reform China
Cool kids. On a rainy afternoon towards the end of my fieldwork in Qilin, southwest China, I sat with one