Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology
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<p><span class="--l sentence_highlight">The journal <em>Curare</em> offers an international and interdisciplinary forum for the scientific discussion of medical anthropological topics, covering all aspects of health, illness, medicine and healing in the past and present in all parts of the world. <br /></span><span class="--l --r sentence_highlight">It was founded in 1978 by the <a href="https://agem.de/en/">AGEM</a> – Association for Anthropology and Medicine</span><span class="--l --r sentence_highlight"> (until 2018 Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin). </span><span class="--l sentence_highlight">Until 2007 it bore the subtitle<em> Zeitschrift für Ethnomedizin</em> <em>und Transkulturelle Psychiatrie</em>, since 2008 the subtitle has been <em>Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie</em>. <br /></span><span class="--l --r sentence_highlight">The articles are subject to a peer-review process. </span><span class="--l --r sentence_highlight">In addition to research articles, conference reports and book reviews are also published. </span><span class="--l --r sentence_highlight">The "Forum" section also provides space for essays, interviews and ethnographic vignettes. </span><span class="--l --r sentence_highlight"><em>Curare</em> publishes articles in English and is the only journal for medical anthropology in German. </span><span class="--l --r sentence_highlight">It supports the publication of special issues through guest editorships. </span><span class="--l sentence_highlight">It currently publishes two issues per year. </span></p> <p><span class="--l --r sentence_highlight"><em>Curare</em> Journal does not charge authors any costs for publication (so-called article processing charges) or submission (so-called submission charges).</span></p>Dietrich Reimer Verlagen-USCurare. Journal of Medical Anthropology0344-8622Zusammenfassung – Abstracts – Résumés
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2026-03-252026-03-25481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8850Editorial
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8794Medien und Medizin als Ressourcen füreinander
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<p>Nachdem ab 1962 in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland flächendeckend die Oralimpfung gegen Poliomyelitis („Kinderlähmung“) eingeführt wurde, gab es intensive und langjährige Werbekampagnen, bei denen besonders dem Fernsehen als neuem gesellschaftlichen Leitmedium eine immer größere Bedeutung zukam. Der Artikel analysiert diese Rolle des Fernsehens für die Propagierung der Polio-Schluckimpfung sowohl hinsichtlich der Vielzahl an redaktionellen Sendungsbeiträgen als auch mit Blick auf einflussreiche staatliche Werbespots. Das Argument lautet, dass die Propagierung der Polio-Schluckimpfung in den 1960er- und 70er-Jahren eingebettet war in ein teils institutionalisiertes, vor allem aber informelles Zusammenwirken von medizinischen und medialen Akteuren, die in strategischen Allianzen voneinander zu profitieren suchten. Der Artikel beschreibt, wie Medien als Ressourcen<br />der Medizin, umgekehrt aber auch Medizin als Ressource der Medien dienten. Zudem zeigt er auf, wie sich die Werbestrategien im Laufe der 1960er- und 70er-Jahre veränderten. Dieser medienhistorische Blick fördert zutage, dass die Behauptung, der Rückgang der Erkrankungsfälle in den frühen 1960er-Jahren sei maßgeblich dem berühmt gewordenen Werbeslogan „Schluckimpfung ist süß – Kinderlähmung ist grausam“ zu verdanken gewesen, ein medialretrospektiver Mythos ist, der auf einer meist unzutreffenden zeitlichen Zuschreibung beruht. Der Artikel stellt die historische Einordnung des Slogans richtig und erläutert den in den 1970er-Jahren vollzogenen Wandel der Werbelogiken für das Impfen – weg von Abschreckungs- und Schockbildern hin zu Darstellungen eines unbekümmerten Immunitätsversprechens –, wie sie bis heute eingesetzt werden.</p>Tobias Becker
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8810 Cryonics 2.0
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<p>How has cryonics been affected by futuristic developments in AI and anti-aging medicine? Cryonics is the practice of perfusing human bodies with antifreeze solutions (cryoprotectants) and storing them at ultralow temperatures in the hopes of future revival. Cryonicists (those who practice or sign up for cryonics) hope for revival by a variety of biological and digital methods, ranging from rewarming, healing, and rejuvenating the body, to adding digital and biological enhancements, to recreating the person or consciousness in digital form. Cryonics was until very recently a very fringe phenomenon (Romain 2010), only lately the topic of ethnographic manuscripts (Bernstein 2019; Farman 2020; Torsnes 2023). But it has been mainstreamed not only by advances in AI, but by the study of aging, as well as other cultural developments. Along with this mainstreaming and the growth in the number of cryonicists, there have been changes in how cryonicists learn about cryonics, how they self-identify, and how they present cryonics to others. Despite AI’s role in mainstreaming transhumanist ideas, such as consciousness outside the biological body, ‘beyond the carbon barrier’ (Farman 2019), my ethnographic and survey data show that cryonics is popularizing along two alternative routes: through a surging interest in <em>anti-aging</em> research and treatment, and through ‘the Rise of <em>Rationalism’</em> and Rationalist-adjacent movements like Effective Altruism and Longtermism. Cryonics 2.0 is the name that members of the Human Futures research team have given to this new context for cryonics (cf. Eriksen 2021, 2023), wherein many cryonicists shed the explicit language of immortalism and transhumanism in favour of longevity and Rationalist discourses.</p>William Dawley
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8811(A)symmetrische Beziehungen
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Andrea Kuckert
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8795Die Entwicklung der Psychiatrie von der Antike bis heute
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Martin Köhne
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8796Zur architektonischen Neugestaltung des Alexius/Josef Krankenhauses durch das Architekturbüro sander.hofrichter architekten (a|sh)
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Andrea KuckertJulia Kirch
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8797Fotoessay zur Neugestaltung des Alexius/Josef Krankenhauses
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Andrea Kuckert
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8798 Funktionale Asymmetrie in der Psychiatrie
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<p><br><br> </p>Ulrike Höhmann
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-2Experienced Involvement. Ein Projekt, um das Wissen von Menschen mit psychischen Krankheitserfahrungen für andere positiv zu nutzen
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Andrea KuckertAndreas RexinHeidrun Lundie
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8800„Für mich ist das ganz eindeutig. Es gibt die Möglichkeit der geöffneten Station, mein Bruder soll das auch erleben.“
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Gary-Neil BraultAndrea KuckertAnna SzurekBernd Tewes
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8801Deeskalation im psychiatrischen Klinikalltag
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Andreas HethkeThomas Ploetz
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8803Eine Reflexion über die Deeskalation im psychiatrischen Krankenhausalltag mit zwei PRODEMA®-Trainern
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Andreas HethkeThomas PloetzAndrea Kuckert
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8804Das Safewardskonzept auf einer allgemeinpsychiatrisch geschützten Station
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Lena Krupski
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8805 Die Station Kosmas mit Soteria-Elementen im Alexius/Josef Krankenhaus
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Stefan Gartke
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8806Umgang mit suizidalen Krisen im psychiatrischen Alltag
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Björn Vüst
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8807Von asymmetrischen Verhältnissen zur Zusammenarbeit
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Anita Ham
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8808„Heilende“ Interieurs
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Martijn in ‘t VeldAndrea Kuckert
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8809Jürgen Wasim Frembgen 2025. Bhang – Rauschtrank und Sakraldroge: Zum Gebrauch eines Hanfextrakts im Orient Solothurn: Nachtschatten Verlag, 90 S.
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Mark Münzel
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8816Ein bedeutender Forscher, Lehrer und Ideengeber
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Oliver RazumAllbrecht JahnWolfgang KrahlMichael HeideggerWolfgang BichmannPitt ReitmaierWalter BruchhausenStefan SchubertDieter HampelSusan B. RifkinEkkehard Schröder
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8814Hans Jochen Diesfeld’s Moral Clarity
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Oliver Razum
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8815Bridging Anthropology and Practice
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Nora EngelbertMargret Jaeger
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8812Zeigen, wie unsere Körper gestrickt sind
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Katharina Sabernig
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8813„Vielleicht bin ich in die Medizinethnologie reingerutscht“
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Katarina GreifeldVerena Keck
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2026-03-202026-03-20481-210.60837/curare.v48i1-2.8844Anja Dreschke & Michaela Schäuble 2024. Tarantism Revisited
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Peter Bräunlein
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