MAT Collective New Special Issue now live!
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We’re delighted to announce that MAT has just published a new special issue, and the first issue of 2024! The 11.1 issue of Medicine Anthropology Theory is titled ‘The Immune System, Immunity and Immune Logics’, and has been guest edited by Andrea Ford and Julia Swallow (at the Centre for Biomedicine Self and Society, at the University of Edinburgh).Special thanks to our MAT editor Jessica Cooper and Field Notes and Position Pieces editors for their support in shepherding and editing this new special issue!
Below you will find a summary of the content and access to each piece.
Content
Introduction
- Andrea Ford, Julia Swallow. The Immune System, Immunity and Immune Logics: Troubling Fixed Boundaries and (Re)conceptualizing Relations
Research Articles
- Jonas Kure Buer. Bio-imaginaries: ‘Biologics’, Bricolage, and the Making of Pharmaceutical Knowledge
- Venla Oikkonen. Anticipating Immunity: Vaccine-induced Immunity and Vaccine Safety in the Finnish News Coverage of COVID-19 Vaccines
- Angela Marques Filipe. Pandemic Life-lines: A Multimodal Autoethnography of COVID-19 Illness, Isolation, and Shared Immunities
Position Pieces
- Martha Kenney, Ruth Müller. Relations as Immunity: Building Community Resilience
Field Notes
- Beth Joanna Greenhough, Maaret Jokela-Pansini, Eben Kirksey, Jamie Lorimer. Mapping Microbial Selves: Field Notes from a Dirty Parenting Project
- Andrea Lilly Ford. How to Categorise Disease? Endometriosis, Inflammation, and ‘Self Out of Place’