Stigma in health facilities undermines diagnosis, treatment, and successful health outcomes.
Addressing stigma is fundamental to delivering quality healthcare and achieving optimal …

Opioid use and infectious diseases are intertwined epidemics. Despite the fact that the
United States is more than two decades into the opioid crisis-the cause of tens of thousands …

The hospital's ambiguous relationship to everyday social space has long been a central
theme of hospital ethnography. Often, hospitals are presented either as isolated “islands” …

This report, the second of three, discusses the nature of a recent turn in health geography
towards a posthuman theoretical orientation. This is an ontological turn that challenges …

Non-representational theory is an academic approach that animates the active world; its
taking-place. It shows how material, sensory and affective processes combine with …

Hospitals are designed as spaces of improvement. Yet an accumulation of infrastructural
projects can lead over time to the emergence of a layered landscape made up of multiple …

This article traces how scarcities characteristic of health systems in low-income countries
(LICs), and increasing popular interest in Global Health, have inadvertently contributed to …

This book is a collection of fictionalised case studies of everyday ethical dilemmas and
challenges, encountered in the process of conducting global health research in places …

After two long days on the bus, I arrived in Sumbawanga in the beginning of February 2014,
the rainy season well underway. The next day, I reported to the Mawingu Regional Hospital …

Health workers in 21 government health facilities in Zambia and South Africa linked spatial
organisation of HIV services and material items signifying HIV-status (for example, coloured …