Name That Scholar
This author coined the term "gynotrauma", defined as the physical, emotional, and social harm experienced during gynecological care due to intersections between racism, sexism, and heteronormativity.
Who is Nessette Falu?
This assumption of biomedicine assumes that disease is a natural fact and enables medicine to appear apolitical.
What is naturalism?
This refers to the lived human experience of symptoms and suffering
What is illness?
This is the fieldsite where Rasidjan's work on the politics of family planning and racialization takes place.
What is West Papua?
Parker highlights how medical anthropologists have historically had their work informed by these historical changes.
What are social justice movements?
These medical anthropologists are are also psychiatrists
Who are Jonathan Metzel, Arthur Kleinmann, and Helena Hansen?
This assumption of biomedicine treats the body as a knowable, material object governed by natural laws, and allows medicine to claim certainty while distancing itself from ambiguity
What is mind-body separation?
Originally coined by Indigenous scholar Audra Simpson, this concept is applied to medical anthropology in the context of lived forms of resistance regarding institutional decisions about healthcare.
What is refusal?
This is the fieldsite where Race's work on the HIV/AIDS epidemic and sexual pleasure as a "reluctant object" takes place.
Sydney, Australia
This theory has been foundational in thinking through care work in the context of disability.
What are "people as affordances" or "microactivist affordances"?
This philosopher, who is the most cited scholar in the social scienes, emphasized how modern medicine operates through statistical comparison, creating the foundation of normalization.
Who is Michel Foucault?
This assumption of biomedicine breaks down disease into discrete biological processes that can be isolated, measured, and manipulated, and assumes that the whole is a sum of its parts.
What is reductionism?
This philosophy-inspired theory points to the language of the market in shaping patients as "customers".
What is the logic of choice?
This is where the majority of Doucet-Battle's study in "Sweetness in the Blood" takes place.
Where is the United States?
Understood in the context of pharmaceuticalization, this term/concept is not a symptom: it is a projection derived from population-level correlations.
What is risk?
This British-Canadian scholar explores medicalized subjectivities, noting how individuals come to understand themselves through medical classifications. They reference anthropological work showing that psychiatric diagnosis reorganizes social identity.
Who is Margaret Lock?
This assumption of biomedicine presents biomedical knowledge as independent of social, cultural, and historical context, and assumes diseases are the same everywhere.
What is universalism?
This often-critiqued hypothesis was coined by geneticist James Neel in 1962 to describe certain individuals’ genetic predisposition to diabetes.
What is the thrifty gene?
This is where Angela Garcia's fieldwork in "The Elegiac Addict: History, Chronicity and the Melancholic Subject" takes place. (It is also Garcia's home state)
Where is Espanola Valley, New Mexico?
Rather than treating this concept in isolation, medical anthropology asks us to look at the whole medical landscape people move through when they are ill.
Hint: the second word in this concept is the object, subject, and process of study for anthropology at large.
What is "patient culture"?
These two scholars discuss how healthcare reforms like the ACA often lead to unequal coverage, especially for those with noncitizen status, or racialized as such.
Who are Jessica Mulligan and Heide Castañeda?
Historical moments like the Nuremberg Code (established informed consent) and the 1973 Patient’s Bill of Rights (affirmed patients’ legal right to information and refusal of treatment) reveal a shift away from this form of decision-making authority.
What is medical paternalism?
These two terms are distinguished by power exercised over populations and their processes of everyday life and power exercised over individual bodies through control and discipline.
What are biopolitics and biopower?
These two sites are where Arseli Dokumaci conducted fieldwork to develop their critical disability approach to affordances, exploring how disabled people build livable worlds through everyday relationships and improvisation.
Where are Istanbul, Turkey and Quebec, Canada?
To understand how mental healthcare is being differently envisioned, Libby's doctoral research follows peer-led mental health organizations in the United States that draw from disability justice and abolitionist traditions to situate care as an act of resistance.
Primarily based in New York City, central focus of her research revolves around examining the strategies employed by care workers in both state-appointed and peer-led community care initiatives as they tackle the vital task of providing mental healthcare within the community. The two guiding questiona are: first, how is care work envisioned, enacted, and translated into outcomes? Second, what forms of care work can transform practices into a means of resistance against the challenges posed by the neoliberal state?