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MAT Issue 11.3 and Special Section



News on behalf of Wren Wilson, Managing Editor, Medicine Anthropology Theory (MAT) Journal.

We’re happy to announce that the 11.3 issue of Medicine Anthropology Theory is available online. This issue also includes a Special Section, “Psychoactive Agents,” expertly guest edited by Guntars Ermansons and Neil Carrier. Thank you to our MAT Editorial Collective team as well as our Field Notes, Photo Essays, and Position Pieces editors for their support in shepherding and editing this issue. 

Below you will find a summary of the content and access to each piece. Please, spread the word about our publication across your networks!

 

11.3  Issue Content 

 

Editorial

·       MAT Editorial Collective. Seeking Knowledge in and for Troubled Times: The Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology, MAT, and a Shared Vision

 

Research Articles

·       Sara Bea. ​​Labile Bodies​: A Hospital Ethnography of Medical Professionals’ Struggles in Deceased Organ Donation

·      Maria Pozzio, Daniela Testa. Pandemic and Politicisation in Argentina: Nursing Professional Trajectories in the Conurbano Bonaerense Region

·      Merete Tonnesen, Claus Vinther Nielsen. ​​Hope and Haunting Images: The Imaginary in Danish Parkinson’s Disease Rehabilitation

·      Veronica Gomez-Temesio. Mother of All Labour: Vulnerability and Immunity in Times of Ebola

 

Photo Essays

·      Susan Wardell. ​​The Glass Witness​: Visual and Tactile Engagements with Online Medical Crowdfunding

·      Eirini Papadaki. ​​Making Homes in a Nursing Facility in Athens​

 

Field Notes

·      Nadeeka Arambewela-Colley. Of Truths and Snakes: The Percussive Effects of Asylum Seeking in Australia

 

Special Section

·      Neil Carrier, Guntars Ermansons. Special Section Introduction Psychoactive Agents​: Drugs, Morality, and Responsibility

·      Laura Roe. ​​Solace of Substance​: Agency, Surrender, and Consolation in Addiction and Polydrug Use

·      Guntars Ermansons. UK Khat Prohibition and the Making of a Harmful Drug

·      Imogen Bevan. Sugar, A Morally Ambiguous Substance: Responsibility, Social Class and Pleasure in Scotland’s State Primary Schools

·      Neil Carrier. A Potent Chew?: Kenyan Khat and the Agency of Drugs