Guest Editors:
Sahra Gibbon and Susan Reynolds Whyte.

Anthropology & Medicine is an interdisciplinary journal which expands upon the growing theory and research linking anthropology with medicine. This special issue responds to the urgent need for further engagement and understanding of the diverse interfaces between citizenship, neo-liberal agendas, global social processes and local moral worlds as they relate to the use of different biomedical technologies and techniques. It focuses on both high-tech biomedical interventions and seemingly more ‘mundane’ tools or techniques (including genetic testing, antenatal screening, anti-retroviral therapies, HLA gene typing for bone marrow transplants as well as prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV) across a very diverse range of cultural settings in the Global North and South (including South and East Africa, India, Greece, Italy and Cuba). In doing so, this special issue explores the uneven as well as diverse bodily and social consequences of different biotechnologies. Drawing from ethnographic research the contributing papers examine to what extent biotechnology (including authoritative knowledge, procedures, equipment, and medicines) is incorporated. They explore the dynamic processes through which these techniques and knowledge come to make a difference (or not) for bodies, subjectivities, identities, and sociality. In doing so, the papers examine not only processes of transformation and/or resistance, but also health disparities and inequities within and between societies.

Contents
Biomedical technology and health inequities: an introduction
Sahra Gibbon and Susan Reynolds Whyte

Tests for life chances: antiretroviral miracles and obstacles in Uganda
Lotte Meinert, Hanne O. Mogensen and Jenipher Twebaze

'The poor have to breastfeed and let their children die': technologies, selves and sociality in prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV programs in Tanzania and Ethiopia
Astrid Blystad and Karen Marie Moland

'Community Genetics', equity and predictive medicine: the challenges of BRCA genetics as public health in Cuba
Sahra Gibbon

Living and working in spite of antiretroviral therapies: HIV between control and resistance
Matteo Alcano

Rationalisation and racialisation in the Rainbow Nation: inequalities and identity in the South African bone marrow transplant network
Emily Avera

Between religious philanthropy and individualised medicine: situating inherited breast cancer risk in Greece
Eirini Kampriani

'Experimental' stem cell therapy in India: questionable practices through 'bio-networking' - two case studies from Chennai city
Prasanna Kumar Patra and Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner