Anthropology & Medicine人类学与医学
Anthropology & Medicine(英文缩写 ANTHROPOL MED),ISSN 1364-8470,eISSN 1469-2910,中文译名:人类学与医学 是一本学术期刊。本页汇总该期刊的最新影响因子、分区信息以及最新收录于 PubMed 的文献,帮助您快速了解期刊全貌。
发文量统计区间：2025-09-27 至 2026-09-27，按本站收录文献的发表日期统计。
期刊介绍
历年影响因子趋势
| JCR 数据年份 | 影响因子 | JCR 分区 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1.533 | Q2 |
| 2022 | 1.800 | Q2 |
| 2023 | 1.500 | Q2 |
| 2024 | 1.100 | Q2 |
| 2025 | 1.000 | Q2 |
Anthropology & Medicine 最新收录文献
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1. Knowing or not knowing: the practical and moral complexity of diagnostic-seeking pathways in situations of medical uncertainty.
PMID:日期:2026-09-25In this paper, we discuss the practical and moral complexities of diagnostic-seeking pathways for three uncertain medical conditions: fibromyalgia, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and long COVID. We analyse qualitative data collected in the UK between 2023 and 2025, comprising in-depth interviews with medical professionals, researchers, and patients, as well as documentary sources. Drawing on the anthropology and sociology of diagnosis, this paper discusses how chronic illness can be marked by challenging and unstable pathways, influenced by the organisation of the medical system and the resources patients have to navigate it. Diagnoses further do not guarantee a solution to the condition, and can, on the other hand, produce stigma. Medical professionals recognise the uncertain nature of these conditions and emphasise how diagnosis can play an instrumental role in providing patients with access to therapies, benefits, or acceptance. Patients discuss the complexity of the strategies they deploy not only to obtain a diagnosis but also to navigate the practical and moral complexities associated with their condition. Analysing the practical and moral complexity of diagnostic-seeking pathways represents a way to enrich anthropological reflections on diagnosis by demonstrating how this key concept of biomedicine is strongly influenced by social, economic, and moral, as well as biological, factors.
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2. Not paper people: application forms as ethical stories at the wellbeing garden.
PMID:日期:2026-09-23This paper reports on ethnographic observations about the filling in, and handling, of application forms for a garden-based wellbeing program. It describes the ethical challenges involved in determining the eligibility of applicants, particularly where application forms aren't completed clearly or don't present cases indicative of potential health benefit. The paper utilises a narrative approach to the anthropology of ethics to interpret application forms as gambits in self-narratives about worth and need. These narratives are diverse, sometimes unclear, and sometimes do not fit easily with institutional remits. As such, the paper contributes to understandings of the infrastructures required for inclusive and accessible programs supporting contexts of health with three claims: (1) That potential beneficiaries present to such services in ways that vary in communicative form, technical capacity, and ethical orientation, and that application forms do not easily accommodate this breadth. (2) That participants may not present to services in terms of their health need, or in terms relevant to health inequality evaluation, while services, funders, and referrers may require those sorts of information. (3) That to buffer the exclusionary potential of application processes, administrative work that must be well resourced and supported.
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3. {"_":"'A esa ya la destriparon': reproductive care practices against narratives towards the clinic in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca, Mexico.","i":["ñuu savii"]}
PMID:日期:2026-09-23As a result of ethnographic research conducted during five months between 2019 and 2020 in the community called Santa Cruz Mitlatongo in Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca (Mexico), this article outlines reproductive dynamics within this Mixtec community. Against the background of the historical dispute between the so-called 'traditional' medicine and biomedicine, medical and often obstetric violence seemed to permeate the stories of women in this community, whilst the midwife was still a highly important alternative for most of the locals. This paper reflects on the notion of body and the role it plays within the processes of health/illness/assistance and draws upon the local care practices of pregnancy, birth and postpartum with the aim to address the narratives portrayed towards the clinic: a cold and unhealthy place where women become choiceless over the way they want to give birth that materialises in the rejection to C-sections and anaesthesia, procedures that cause irreversible changes to women's bodies.
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4. First, do no harm? Agency, autonomy and wound/body ownership in grassroots self-injury support in the UK.
PMID:日期:2026-09-23Based on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork with a grassroots self-injury support organisation in the North of England, this paper examines how ethical priorities shape decisions about wound care among people who practice self-injury. Drawing on in-depth engagement with three participants-Julie, Eliza and Nuala-this paper explores how values of agency, autonomy, and wound/body ownership are prioritised over biomedical imperatives to heal wounds efficiently and to restore bodily health. While clinical frameworks often understand these practices as 'non-compliance,' this paper shows how autonomous wound-management practices function as ethical strategies through which individuals assert control, maintain psychosocial balance and navigate their moral responsibilities towards themselves and others.
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5. Feeling ill, not harmed: a phenomenological account of the long-term experience of false-positive breast cancer screening.
PMID:日期:2026-09-22Scholarship has highlighted how the identification of breast cancer risk and false-positive screening results operate as modes of governance that shape subjects and extend the reach of medicine. Building upon this work, this article offers a phenomenologically-informed analysis of women's experiences of false-positive results in breast cancer screening, examining how such encounters with risk and the possibility of disease are lived and carried into everyday life. Based on ethnographic interviews with women who received false-positive results approximately 18 to 20 years previously, this study focuses on their narratives of receiving and living with a false-positive result over time. Drawing on narrative approaches and a focus on temporality, we analyse how women navigate the tensions of proximity to a potentially life-threatening disease through embodied experiences of risk, and how they seek to sustain meaningful lives in the wake of this uncertainty through narration. This study sheds light on the long-term impact of receiving false-positive screening results, demonstrating how such experiences can threaten notions of health while also generating appreciation and opportunities for personal and emotional growth. We suggest that the long-term accounts extend existing theoretical works on false-positive results, which has tended to emphasise the immediate emotional responses and shifts in risk perceptions as forms of biomedical harm. In contrast, these accounts enrich biomedical definitions of harm with experiential understandings of harm that feature both medicalised narratives, opportunities for reflection and personal growth, and ambiguous states of feeling ill but not feeling harmed.
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6. Trafficking harm: extractivism and tree affordances in the southwestern borderlands of Iran.
PMID:日期:2026-09-21In Khuzestan, Iran, , a nonendemic, fast-growing evergreen tree species with rich foliage has been widely planted to fight the consequences of extractivism, war, and climate change. The trees were supposed to form a physical barrier to the dust-laden winds while releasing oxygen to alleviate air pollution. Yet the roots of the tree destroyed infrastructure and its pollen proved even more hazardous, provoking asthma attacks in large parts of the population. Hence the tree that was planted to ease breathing became a source of respiratory harm. This article investigates the affordances of the as a living being and its changing value as a 'lively commodity' at the intersections of extractivism, political economy, and human health. It traces the life and death journeys of the tree as it is degraded within the 'hierarchy of breathers' and pushed into abjection, as those who employed it as a green fix did not acknowledge it as a vegetal being with unique characteristics, and affordances.
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7. Understanding anthropological contributions to infectious disease outbreak preparedness and response: a scoping review of key trends since 2019.
PMID:日期:2026-07-29This review explores how anthropology has been applied in outbreak preparedness and response since the onset of COVID-19 in 2019, identifying key trends and providing recommendations to its integration into global health practice. Our search of four databases yielded 68 studies published between 2019 and August 2024. Most studies (71%) focused on COVID-19, followed by Ebola (17%). Nearly half examine African contexts (46%), with fewer studies in Asia (26%), Europe (8%) and North America (4%). Existing studies predominantly address outbreak response rather than preparedness. Key themes include: local knowledge and the governance of outbreaks; the heterogeneity of communities and the vital role of local leaders; power dynamics and mistrust; and growing recognition of multispecies, zoonotic and planetary health dimensions. The review highlights persistent structural inequalities, with anthropological engagement in outbreak preparedness and response deeply shaped by Global North dominance. It calls for more critical and inclusive approaches to local leadership, challenging assumptions about representation, authority and trust. While rapid methods enable timely insights, they also involve trade-offs in depth and long-term engagement. Addressing these challenges requires more equitable partnerships, sustained investment in Global South capacity and participation, and deeper engagement with the structural, cultural and political dimensions of health emergencies.
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8. Precarious half-lives: silencing toxic legacies in a former uranium mining town in Kyrgyzstan.
PMID:日期:2026-03-16This article examines how the residents of Mailuu-Suu, a former uranium mining town in southern Kyrgyzstan, normalise everyday life amidst radioactive uranium tailings. While biomedical researchers link the presence of tailings to heightened rates of disease, remediation experts downplay such claims, generating ambivalence that complicates efforts to trace the aetiology of local health problems and blurs perceptions of whether radiation is present at all. Locals, meanwhile, neither deny nor fully acknowledge contamination. Instead, they engage in practices of silencing, a mode of knowing-and-not-knowing that sustains a fragile sense of normalcy against the backdrop of environmental degradation and post-socialist socio-economic hardship. Tracing historical continuities of secrecy from the Soviet period and attending to the neoliberal pressures that keep residents in place, the article conceptualises silencing as a form of toxic politics born of necessity rather than mobilisation. By shifting attention from measurable radiation to lived experience, it challenges binary narratives of contamination and purity, harm and safety, knowledge and ignorance. Mailuu-Suu is thus revealed as symptomatic of neoliberal late industrialism, where communities are forced to grapple with extractive pasts and uncertain futures in the absence of meaningful state support, while striving to sustain ordinary life in conditions deemed uninhabitable.
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9. Structural stigma and mental healthcare in Ghana: psychiatric nurses' perspectives.
PMID:日期:2025-03-01In this paper, we bring together medical anthropology of stigma with sociology and public health work on structural stigma to show how interpersonal and structural stigmas are co-produced through social, professional, and institutional exchange. Stigma of psychiatric nurses in Ghana works to exclude them from professional exchange - training, practice of skills, advocacy - and thereby co-produces interpersonal and structural stigma - lack of infrastructure, equipment, supplies, and funding for psychiatric care. Exchange also figured in the reasons nurses gave for the neglect of the mental health sector, which, they explained, did not generate revenue for the government or sufficiently restore patients into productive workers or human resources. At the same time, stigma may not simply exclude people from exchange but create other forms of exchange, such as care.
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10. Informed consent in the anthropology of psychosis.
PMID:日期:2025-03-01This essay juxtaposes the (informed) 'consent' sections of the American Anthropological Association's (AAA) Statement on Ethics (2012) and the Ethical Guidelines for good research practice (2021) of the Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) of the UK. It discusses two a priori and uncritical assumptions that constitute the premise of the informed consent doctrine, as it has been incorporated in anthropology: that research participants and anthropologists organise their worlds in temporally coherent ways; and that research participants employ verbal and/or written modes of communication. I argue that erstwhile critiques of the informed consent doctrine in anthropology are somewhat limited, to the extent that they do not always recognise the exclusionary implications of these underlying assumptions. Acknowledging these assumptions in the context of anthropological research with 'psychotic' patients might allude to the impossibilities of-seeking 'informed' consent from such patients, and thus perhaps of ethnographically approaching 'psychotic' expressivity and subjectivity. I offer a way out of this impasse by drawing on specific ethnographic vignettes of the 'embodied voice' of psychotic patients. The essay then concludes with a suggestion for professional anthropological associations to develop alternative, more inclusive, and nonconventional ways of locating informed consent.