Biosecurity, Ebola, and Paperwork in Sierra Leone

“Conjuring Biosecurity in the Post‐Ebola Kissi Triangle: The Magic of Paperwork in a Frontier Clinic” is a new article in Medical Anthropology Quarterly by Raphael Frankfurter, a BCSM-affiliated grad student who is in the joint UCSF/UCB MD/PhD program. The article is based on research in a clinic in Sierra Leone and focuses on one nurse, whose “endless paperwork tasks seem to have transformed into a type of magical therapeutic practice.” 

Latinx Migrant Farmworker Well-being

“Bienestar—the well-being of Latinx farmworkers in a time of change” is a symposium/special issue in the journal Agriculture and Human Values, edited by Lisa Meierotto, Teresa Mares and Seth Holmes, Chair of ISSI’s Berkeley Center for Social Medicine. The editors co-authored the introduction to the special issue. Professor Holmes also has an article in the special issue: “Migrant farmworker injury: temporality, statistical representation, eventfulness.”