Medicine Anthropology Theory

Editorial Collective

Seeking Knowledge in and for Troubled Times: The Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology, MAT, and a Shared Vision
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Sara Bea

Labile Bodies: A Hospital Ethnography of Medical Professionals’ Struggles in Deceased Organ Donation
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Maria Pozzio, Daniela Testa

Pandemic and Politicisation in Argentina: Nursing Professional Trajectories in the Conurbano Bonaerense Region
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Merete Tonnesen, Claus Vinther Nielsen

Hope and Haunting Images: The Imaginary in Danish Parkinson’s Disease Rehabilitation
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Veronica Gomez-Temesio

Mother of All Labour: Vulnerability and Immunity in Times of Ebola
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Claudia Egher, Chiara Carboni, Rik Wehrens

The Role of Affective Labour in Expertise: Bringing Emotions Back into Expert Practices
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Susan Wardell

The Glass Witness: Visual and Tactile Engagements with Online Medical Crowdfunding
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Eirini Papadaki

Making Homes in a Nursing Facility in Athens
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Nadeeka Arambewela-Colley

Of Truths and Snakes: The Percussive Effects of Asylum Seeking in Australia
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Neil Carrier, Guntars Ermansons

Psychoactive Agents: Drugs, Morality, and Responsibility
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Laura Roe

Solace of Substance: Agency, Surrender, and Consolation in Addiction and Polydrug Use
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Guntars Ermansons

UK Khat Prohibition and the Making of a Harmful Drug
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Imogen Alice Bevan

Sugar, A Morally Ambiguous Substance: Responsibility, Social Class and Pleasure in Scotland’s State Primary Schools
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Neil Carrier

A Potent Chew?: Kenyan Khat and the Agency of Drugs
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Announcements

31-May-2024

Open vacancy: Position Pieces section editors

We are looking for new co-editors for our Position Pieces section
12-Jan-2024

The 2023 SPA Stirling Prize awarded to a publication at the MAT journal

The US Society of Psychological Anthropology (SPA) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) has awarded the 2023 edition of their prestigious annual Stirling Award to an article published at our journal, authored by Jonathan Yahalom, Sheila Frankfurt and Alison B. Hamilton. Congratulations!
04-Dec-2023

2024 Special Issue Call for proposals now open

The MAT editorial collective is delighted to announce that the 2024 Special Issue call for submissions will be open to receive proposals until 1 June 2024.