Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur <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> en-US curare@agem.de (Redaktion) philipp.goll@hu-berlin.de (Philipp Goll) Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 OJS 3.3.0.13 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Zusammenfassung – Abstracts – Résumés https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8850 Curare Redaktion Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8850 Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Medien und Medizin als Ressourcen füreinander https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8810 <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 Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8810 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Cryonics 2.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8811 <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 Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8811 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 (A)symmetrische Beziehungen https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8795 Andrea Kuckert Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8795 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Die Entwicklung der Psychiatrie von der Antike bis heute https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8796 Martin Köhne Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8796 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Zur architektonischen Neugestaltung des Alexius/Josef Krankenhauses durch das Architekturbüro sander.hofrichter architekten (a|sh) https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8797 Andrea Kuckert, Julia Kirch Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8797 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Fotoessay zur Neugestaltung des Alexius/Josef Krankenhauses https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8798 Andrea Kuckert Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8798 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Funktionale Asymmetrie in der Psychiatrie https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8799 <p><br><br>&nbsp;</p> Ulrike Höhmann Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8799 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Experienced Involvement. Ein Projekt, um das Wissen von Menschen mit psychischen Krankheitserfahrungen für andere positiv zu nutzen https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8800 Andrea Kuckert, Andreas Rexin, Heidrun Lundie Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8800 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 „Für mich ist das ganz eindeutig. Es gibt die Möglichkeit der geöffneten Station, mein Bruder soll das auch erleben.“ https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8801 Gary-Neil Brault, Andrea Kuckert, Anna Szurek, Bernd Tewes Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8801 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Deeskalation im psychiatrischen Klinikalltag https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8803 Andreas Hethke, Thomas Ploetz Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8803 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Eine Reflexion über die Deeskalation im psychiatrischen Krankenhausalltag mit zwei PRODEMA®-Trainern https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8804 Andreas Hethke, Thomas Ploetz, Andrea Kuckert Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8804 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Das Safewardskonzept auf einer allgemeinpsychiatrisch geschützten Station https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8805 Lena Krupski Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8805 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Die Station Kosmas mit Soteria-Elementen im Alexius/Josef Krankenhaus https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8806 Stefan Gartke Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8806 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Umgang mit suizidalen Krisen im psychiatrischen Alltag https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8807 Björn Vüst Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8807 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Von asymmetrischen Verhältnissen zur Zusammenarbeit https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8808 Anita Ham Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8808 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 „Heilende“ Interieurs https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8809 Martijn in ‘t Veld, Andrea Kuckert Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8809 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Jürgen Wasim Frembgen 2025. Bhang – Rauschtrank und Sakraldroge: Zum Gebrauch eines Hanfextrakts im Orient Solothurn: Nachtschatten Verlag, 90 S. https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8816 Mark Münzel Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8816 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ein bedeutender Forscher, Lehrer und Ideengeber https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8814 Oliver Razum, Allbrecht Jahn, Wolfgang Krahl, Michael Heidegger, Wolfgang Bichmann, Pitt Reitmaier, Walter Bruchhausen, Stefan Schubert, Dieter Hampel, Susan B. Rifkin, Ekkehard Schröder Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8814 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Hans Jochen Diesfeld’s Moral Clarity https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8815 Oliver Razum Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8815 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bridging Anthropology and Practice https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8812 Nora Engelbert, Margret Jaeger Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8812 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Zeigen, wie unsere Körper gestrickt sind https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8813 Katharina Sabernig Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8813 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 „Vielleicht bin ich in die Medizinethnologie reingerutscht“ https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8844 Katarina Greifeld, Verena Keck Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8844 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Anja Dreschke & Michaela Schäuble 2024. Tarantism Revisited https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8818 Peter Bräunlein Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8818 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Editorial https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8794 Editorial Board Copyright (c) 2026 Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/8794 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000