We welcome 100-200 word abstract submissions, due September 20th 2018  … More Call for papers: SOMAA Symposium

Over the last 12 months, SOMAA members have published a wonderful array of articles, books and blog posts. … More Annual Roundup of SOMAA Members’ Publications

Associate Professor Susanna Trnka has recently published an article entitled Efficacious Holidays: The Therapeutic Dimensions of Pleasure and Discipline in Czech Respiratory Spas in Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Abstract: 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 sanatorium-style … More New Article on Therapeutic Spas by Susanna Trnka

Dr George,  the Research and Innovation Manager for the Western Institute of Technology in Taranaki, was recently interviewed for Anglican Taonga about her involvement in Maori youth suicide prevention programmes. “when we had this awful spike in rangatahi suicide in the North in 2012, I came to see the absolute necessity of this kind of work. The statistics … More Interview with Dr Lily George on her Engagement with Youth Suicide Prevention

Bryony is a MA student in Cultural Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington. She is supervised by Dr Caroline Bennett and Dr Nayantara Sheoran Appleton. The working title of her current MA project is The Stigma, Shame and Taboo of an Uncontrollable Body. “My research will aim to understand how Irritable Bowel Syndrome sufferers experience … More Graduate Profile: Bryony Cunningham-Pow

This article reveals how Papua New Guinean nurses work in a sociomedical system in which cultural and linguistic diversity are matters of pressing concern. … More Article by Barbara Andersen on nursing, language and care in PNG

In a blog for the Cambridge university Reprosoc research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington PhD student Hannah Gibson writes about disability and ableism in university institutions. … More Hannah Gibson writes about ableism in the university

New article by Sharyn Graham Davies, Skins of Morality: Bio-borders, Ephemeral Citizenship and Policing Women in Indonesia, in Asian Studies Review. … More New article on bio-borders by Sharyn Graham Davies

This chapter explores the nature of ethical dilemmas for reproductive scientists whose work places them in close clinical contact with clients who seek assisted reproduction. … More Chapter on Ethics for Embryologists, by Ruth Fitzgerald and Mike Legge

This thesis investigates the contradictory effects that globalisation and development have had on the people of Tonga. … More Masters Thesis on Heath in Tonga, by Jacinta Forde