This review discusses a growing body of scholarship at the intersection of anthropology and
science and technology studies (STS) that examines how drugs are rendered efficacious in …

“Intervention” is central to global health, but the significance and effects of how intervention
is practiced are often taken for granted. This review takes interventions into health and …

Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planet
Most of us are familiar with probiotics added to milk or yogurt to improve gastrointestinal …

What does ontological anthropology promise, what does it presume, and how does it
contribute to the formatting of life in our present? Drawing from our respective fieldwork on …

COOKING DATA is an ethnographic study of how demographic data is collected, handled,
processed, and manipulated by fieldworkers, researchers, policymakers, and NGOs in …

INTRODUCTION Like any academic involved in global health—and especially as a journal
editor—I am frequently called on to make judgements on research papers. 2 Like anyone …

This original, field-changing collection explores the plasticity and unfinishedness of human
subjects and lifeworlds, advancing the conceptual terrain of an anthropology of becoming …

Background The West African Ebola epidemic has demonstrated that the existing range of
medical and epidemiological responses to emerging disease outbreaks is insufficient …

Both public health experts and medical anthropologists are concerned with how health is
shaped by environmental forces. This creates an important cross‐disciplinary alliance, yet …

Initiatives to address the unmet needs of those facing both poverty and serious illness have
expanded significantly over the past decade. But many of them are designed in an ad-hoc …