Over forty-nine days of Level 4 and Level 3 lockdown, residents of Aotearoa New Zealand
were subject to 'stay home'regulations that restricted physical contact to members of the …

Faith and the Pursuit of Health explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness
in ways that sheds light on health disparities and social suffering in Samoa, a place where …

During the COVID-19 emergency, people around the world are debating concepts like
physical distancing, lockdown, and sheltering in place. The ethical significance of proximity …

Abstract “Studying up” was Laura Nader's provocation to anthropologists to scrutinize the
actions of the powerful few in relation to the ordeals of the powerless many. Engaging this …

This paper draws from interviews with 21 young New Zealanders, ages 16-24, to examine
how health apps shape young people's experiences of themselves as agentive subjects in …

Based on ethnographic research in a public hospital trauma intensive care unit in Mumbai,
India, this article formulates the concept of “social breathing” to analyze how breath is central …

Shifting public imaginaries have played a vital role in sha** government and citizen
responses to COVID-19 in Aotearoa/New Zealand. During the nation's first COVID-19 …

This paper contributes to emerging theories of unbreathable space by showing how
breathers with asthma engage environments and atmospheres as the substrate of their …

The aim of this chapter is to discuss the complexities and ambiguities of health-related
citizenship in the neoliberal era. The scholarly discussions investigating the impact of …

As evidence‐based medicine has increasingly become the standard for assessing the
efficacy of health care, the Czech Republic finds itself in a dilemma, with centuries of …