Call for Papers - Special Issue

Medical Pluralism in the New South - Southern Anthropologist  

About this Issue 
The American South has long been a site where multiple systems of healing, knowledge, and care coexist — biomedicine alongside herbalism, faith healing, midwifery, curanderismo, hoodoo, and countless other forms of healing practiced by locals, immigrants and refugee communities. Southern Anthropologist invites submissions for a special issue examining medical pluralism in the New South: how diverse healing traditions are practiced, negotiated, and transformed across the region's changing landscape. We welcome empirical, theoretical, and methodological work that takes seriously the coexistence — and sometimes collision — of medical systems in Southern contexts. 

Themes & Scope
We welcome papers addressing topics including, but not limited to:·       

Coexistence and tension between biomedical and traditional/folk healing systems·       

Migration and the transplantation of healing traditions across communities·       

Religion, faith healing, and spiritual dimensions of Southern care·       

Race, class, and access to pluralistic health resources·       

Rural health disparities and alternative care-seeking behavior·       

Midwifery, doula care, and reproductive health pluralism·       

State regulation and the politics of “legitimate” medicine

We encourage submissions from all subfields of anthropology, as well as from sociology, linguistics, geography, and other relevant social science disciplines. 

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