Anthropologists working on HIV are increasingly reframing their research as taking place in
“the age of treatment,” marking a shift from “the age of AIDS.” The age of treatment is …

Biomedicine in an Unstable Place is the story of people's struggle to make biomedicine work
in a public hospital in Papua New Guinea. It is a story encompassing the history of hospital …

In Mozambique, where more than half of the national health care budget comes from foreign
donors, NGOs and global health research projects have facilitated a dramatic expansion of …

Drawing on comparative ethnographic fieldwork conducted in urban Mozambique, the
United States, and Sierra Leone, the article is broadly concerned with the globalization of …

In Para-States and Medical Science, P. Wenzel Geissler and the contributors examine how
medicine and public health in Africa have been transformed as a result of economic and …

This article analyzes community health workers'(CHW) capacities for empathic service within
an AIDS treatment program in Addis Ababa. I show how CHWs' capacities to build …

In this special issue, we bring together anthropological and historical work that considers
successive aspirations towards 'health for all': their pasts, their futures, and their diverse …

Women's rights to legal abortion in the United States are now facing their greatest social and
legislative challenges since its 1973 legalization. Legislation restricting rights and access to …

This article examines US endeavors to eradicate old age. Drawing on research with older,
mostly white, Americans across social classes, I probe how older people engage in …

Near Human takes us into the borders of human and animal life. In the animal facility, fragile
piglets substitute for humans who cannot be experimented on. In the neonatal intensive care …