Somatosphere Series
Introduction
Chronic living: ethnographic explorations of daily lives swayed by (multiple) medical conditions
By Ayo Wahlberg, Jieun Lee, Anna Mann, Arseli Dokumaci, Natasja Kingod, Marie Kofod Svensson and Laura Heinsen
Living with HIV/AIDS in Australia and Tanzania
By Kane Race
Chronic caring in unstable landscapes
By Josien de Klerk and Eileen Moyer
Living with failing kidneys in Mexico and Austria
The ‘chronic’ lives of failing organs: afflictions of ambivalent care in Mexico
Pains, pleasures, and a new electric wheelchair
By Anna Mann
Living with congenital heart defects in Honduras and Denmark
Chronic living against all odds in Honduras
Keeping cancer at bay in Vietnam and Denmark
The “macrobiotics friends association”: nurturing life amidst chronic disease in Vietnam
By Le Hoang Ngoc Yen and Le Hoang Anh Thu
Punctuated lives: staying healthy with Lynch Syndrome in Denmark
By Laura Louise Heinsen, Helle Vendel Petersen and Ayo Wahlberg
Caregiving in South Korea and Denmark
Study Sessions for Grandmother: An Experiment with Repetition, Memory, and Dementia
By Jieun Lee
When care is delegated: Care troikas in Danish dementia wards
By Simone Anna Felding and Nete Schwennesen
Socialities of chronic living in Indonesia and Denmark
One click away: learning to live with type 1 diabetes via Facebook