Blog posts tagged ‘ethnography’

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Bruno Strasser reading his book The Mask whilst wearing a mask.

Historical Perspectives on Respiratory Protection: The Mask

The new book The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air by After the Single Use researcher Bruno Strasser and co-author Schlich explore how attitudes toward masks reflect deeper cultural, political, and scientific debates.

A rural health centre in Papua New Guinea.

How do hospitals (continue) to matter to anthropologists?

Presentations

At the Medical Anthropology Europe Conference 2025, Alice Street questioned how we might theorise hospitals as more-than-biomedical places and highlighted the environmental damage hospitals cause. 
A deconstructed haemodialysis filter.
06 Jul 2025

Circulations: Pathways of Production, Use, and Discard in Medical Technologies

What hidden stories lie behind the journey of a single-use medical device? How can we use ethnographic approaches and stakeholder collaboration to rethink sustainability in healthcare?
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