Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology

Curare | Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie | Journal of Medical Anthropology

Curare is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal of medical anthropology published by the AGEM – Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnologie und Medizin (Association for Anthropology and Medicine) since 1978. Articles are published in German & English. The transformation into an open access journal took place in 2024 with the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG), a print version continues to be published by Reimer Verlag Berlin. All issues since the first edition in 1978 are freely accessible on the digitalization server of the FID SKA – Specialized Information Service Social and Cultural Anthropology.

Online First

2025

Tobias Becker. Medien und Medizin als Ressourcen füreinander Polio-Schluckimpfung im BRD-Fernsehen der 1960er- und 70er-Jahre

2023

Giorgio Brocco. Connected Epistemologies: A Fragmented Review of Post- and Decolonial Perspectives in Medical Anthropology
Nicole Ernstmann et al. Patient-Physician-Relationship in Cancer Care – Relevance and Ambivalences as Perceived by Oncologists
Nick J Fox. Digital healing? Digital capitalism? Neoliberalism, Digital Health Technologies and ‘Citizen Health’
Anna Hänni. In-Patient Psychiatric Care as a Space of Ambiguity: Therapeutic Encounters From a Sensory and Embodied Perspective
Jill Marxer & Johannes Endler. Alternative Religiosität und „natürliche“ Geburt: Religionswissenschaftliche Bemerkungen zu Robbie Davis-Floyd
Anahi Sy. Healthcare workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina: A syndemic approach to hospitals

Current Issue

46 (2023) 1

Thematic Focus: Visual Expressions of Health, Illness and Healing

Edited by Katharina Sabernig

We are delighted to present with this issue selected results of the 34th conference of the Association for Anthropology and Medicine (AGEM), which took place in cooperation with the Austrian Ethnomedical Society (Österreichische Ethnomedizinische Gesellschaft, ÖEG) and the Weltmuseum Wien in Vienna from June 2 to 4, 2022. The conference entitled “Visual Expressions of Health, Illness, and Healing,” was co-organized by Katarina Sabernig, who is also the guest editor of this issue’s thematic focus. The conference was conceptualized as a follow-up to the 32nd AGEM conference on “Aesthetics of Healing” in Münster in 2019 and focused on visual forms of expressing and communicating aspects of health, illness, and healing in clinical, educational, socio-cultural, and subjective contexts.