New MAT Special Issue Now Live!
Content
We’re excited to announce that MAT has just published a new special issue, and the first issue of 2025! The 12.1 issue of Medicine Anthropology Theory is titled ‘Health-Related Expertise in the Digital Age’, and has been expertly guest edited by Sandra Bärnreuther, Nolwenn Buhler, Giada Danesi.
A sincere thank you to MAT editor Lukas Engelmann 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 along with links to each piece.
Special Issue Content
Introduction
- Sandra Bärnreuther, Nolwenn Buhler, Giada Danesi. Health-Related Expertise in the Digital Age: Reconfigurations and Redistributions
Research Articles
- Sandra Bärnreuther. Recast(e)ing Medicine in India: Contested Hierarchies of Expertise in Digital Primary Care
- Giada Danesi, Tanja Schneider. Automating Dietary Expertise: The Challenge of Making a Food-Tracking App for Everyone
- Klaus Hoeyer, Anne Hoeyen Munk, Sarah Wadmann. Data on the Mind: How the Data on the Use of Force in Psychiatry Interacts with Professional Judgment
- Claudia Lang. Reconfiguring Psy Expertise in the Digital Age: Two Cases from India
Position Pieces
- Alan R Petersen. Making Visible the Expertise of Data Workers in AI-Driven Healthcare: A Call to Action
- Tom Neumark. MedTech in Tanzania: Reflecting and Making Judgments
- Claudia Egher, Chiara Carboni, Rik Wehrens. The Role of Affective Labour in Expertise: Bringing Emotions Back into Expert Practices
Field Notes