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Documents that matter: Sterilization paperwork in rural India (2022)
Journal Article
Lukšaitė, E. (2022). Documents that matter: Sterilization paperwork in rural India. Anthropology Today, 38(5), 9-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12752

Female sterilization, or tubal ligation, is the most prevalent form of contraception in rural India. The paperwork that surrounds this procedure provides an interesting lens to investigate the state, its institutions, and their material conditions. T... Read More about Documents that matter: Sterilization paperwork in rural India.

“I Do Not Have to Hurt My Body Anymore”: Reproductive Chronicity and Sterilization as Ambivalent Care in Rural North India (2022)
Journal Article
Lukšaitė, E. (2022). “I Do Not Have to Hurt My Body Anymore”: Reproductive Chronicity and Sterilization as Ambivalent Care in Rural North India. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 36(3), 312-328. https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12709

Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in rural Rajasthan, India, I examine women's narratives of chronic reproductive suffering and the practices they employed to relieve it. Cumulative effects of adverse and ordinary reproductive events and... Read More about “I Do Not Have to Hurt My Body Anymore”: Reproductive Chronicity and Sterilization as Ambivalent Care in Rural North India.

Conceptualising and Teaching Biomedical Uncertainty to Medical Students: an Exploratory Qualitative Study (2022)
Journal Article
Lukšaitė, E., Fricker, R., McKinley, R., & Dikomitis, L. (2022). Conceptualising and Teaching Biomedical Uncertainty to Medical Students: an Exploratory Qualitative Study. Medical Science Educator, 32, 371–378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-021-01481-x

Introduction Certainty/uncertainty in medicine is a topic of popular debate. This study aims to understand how biomedical uncertainty is conceptualised by academic medical educators and how it is taught in a medical school in the UK. Methods This is... Read More about Conceptualising and Teaching Biomedical Uncertainty to Medical Students: an Exploratory Qualitative Study.