Mother and daughter Michelle Doerr and Alexa Doerr share their intertwined experiences as they confront the complexities of a seemingly elusive eating disorder diagnosis. Michelle Doerr, a devoted mother, found herself navigating uncharted territory when her daughter Alexa was diagnosed with an eating disorder at an unusually young age. Their journey through ambiguous diagnoses, clinic visits, and counseling sessions is candidly depicted, providing a real-world view of the challenges faced...

Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, methodologies, and theories in the discipline, drawing on contributions from leading anthropologists around the world. As a discipline, medical anthropology provides situational analysis of health, disease, and disability to show how the experiences of medical experts, patients, and their broader communities are informed by their social and cultural contexts. Adopting ...

Offering models of care beyond capitalist constraintsFor too long, questions of care provision and inclusion have been shaped by economic justifications. This has led to the deprivation of care to individuals and communities based on capitalist assumptions about what and who can be cared for. Proposals for a Caring Economy takes these assumptions to task. Moving between examples focused on immigration and agriculture, patients and art audiences, green ener...