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07/07/25
 
Health as a Common Good?
Health is often framed as a universal right, yet global access to healthcare remains deeply stratified. While many national governments and international health organisations continue to profess a commitment to universal health care, structural inequities in health insurance systems and availabilities of health care are often concealed through individualized understandings of health and well-being, making […]
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Eduardo Zanella
24/10/25
Reframing Syphilis in an Extreme Climate Event
Tensions Between Epidemiological Surveillance and Primary Care
This post looks at how primary care and epidemiological surveillance pull together, or pull apart, in Brazil’s syphilis-control efforts. Primary care works with a logic of care focused on patients; surveillance works with a logic of control focused on monitoring disease. I trace when and how these logics are coordinated and when they break down […]
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Amelie Katczynski
20/10/25
‘Training Citizens for Universal Health?’
An Ethnographic Account of a Public Health School in the Lao People‘s Democratic Republic
Fieldnotes – Attapeu Nursing School, Southern Laos, 6 March 2025 ‘Come, come, elders of the People, come receive public health service! We welcome you!’ It’s two days before Women’s Day – a national holiday in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Today, the Public Health School of Attapeu, a small province in the country’s South, offers […]
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A. Valentina Moraru
29/09/25
The Price to Pay for a Racialized Labor Market Is Health
Depletion and Restless Bodies among EU-2 Migrant Workers
*This post is based on PhD research con as part of the DFG project Contestations of the Social: Towards a Movement-Based Ethnographic Social (State) Regime Analysis lead by Dr. Lisa Riedner at the Ludwig-Maximilan University in Munich. Aimed at understanding and explaining transformations of social security systems in cities of the Global North, the various […]
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