What are corporations, and to whom are they responsible? Anthropologist Marina Welker
draws on two years of research at Newmont Mining Corporation's Denver headquarters and …

Physicians in the United States have long been trained to assess race and ethnicity in the
context of clinical interactions. Medical students learn to identify how their …

A Hindu monk in Calcutta refuses to take his psychotropic medications. His psychiatrist
explains that just as his body needs food, the drugs are nutrition for his starved mind. Does it …

This exploratory study examines how people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
(IDD) define and experience sexuality in the context of their identities as self-advocates …

Nighttime for many new parents in the United States is fraught with the intense challenges of
learning to breastfeed and helping their babies sleep so they can get rest themselves …

This article provides an ethnographic account of pediatric cochlear implantation, revealing
an important shift in the definition of deafness from a sensory loss to a neurological …

The concept of the sick role entered sociology in 1951 when Talcott Parsons creatively
separated the sick person out of the doctor–patient dyad. The idea became fundamental in …

This chapter examines the intelligibility and visibility of asexual experiences within the realm
of fiction, particularly through the representation of asexuality in Keri Hulme's 1983 novel …

Research on autism has increased significantly over the past several decades. This upsurge
parallels the steep rise in autism diagnoses. Together, these conditions have increased the …

Advocates of the alternative food movement often insist that food is our" common ground"–
that through the very basic human need to eat, we all become entwined in a network of …