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Hormonal stories: a new materialist exploration of hormonal emplotment in four case studies (2024)
Journal Article
Erikainen, S., Ford, A., Malcolm, R., & Raeder, L. (2024). Hormonal stories: a new materialist exploration of hormonal emplotment in four case studies. BioSocieties, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-023-00317-8

Hormones are complex biosocial objects that provoke myriad cultural narratives through their association with social activities and identities, and these narratives have the power to shape people’s lived realities and bodies. While hormones were hist... Read More about Hormonal stories: a new materialist exploration of hormonal emplotment in four case studies.

Milk’s Flows: Making and Transmitting Kinship, Health, and Personhood (2021)
Journal Article
Malcolm, R. (2021). Milk’s Flows: Making and Transmitting Kinship, Health, and Personhood. Medical Humanities, 47(3), 375-379. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2019-011829

Milk provides a way of thinking about how the body is enacted in science, policy and popular culture. This paper follows the currents of moral and biomedical epistemologies circulating around milk, including via notions of inheritance, the practices... Read More about Milk’s Flows: Making and Transmitting Kinship, Health, and Personhood.

“There’s No Constant”: Oxytocin, Cortisol, and Balanced Proportionality in Hormonal Models of Autism (2021)
Journal Article
Malcolm, R. (2021). “There’s No Constant”: Oxytocin, Cortisol, and Balanced Proportionality in Hormonal Models of Autism. Medical Anthropology, 40(4), 375-388. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2021.1894558

Autism is a fluid category with a sensory difference recently emerging as a key aspect of the lived experience of the condition. In concert with the “fight or flight response”, sensory sensitivities are used to articulate chronic stress caused by “se... Read More about “There’s No Constant”: Oxytocin, Cortisol, and Balanced Proportionality in Hormonal Models of Autism.

‘It just opens up their world’: autism, empathy, and the therapeutic effects of equine interactions (2017)
Journal Article
Malcolm, R., Ecks, S., & Pickersgill, M. (2018). ‘It just opens up their world’: autism, empathy, and the therapeutic effects of equine interactions. Anthropology and Medicine, 25(2), 220-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2017.1291115

Experiences of autism-spectrum disorder are now increasingly studied by social scientists. Human–animal relations have also become a major focus of social inquiry in recent years. Examining horse-assisted therapy for autistic spectrum disorders, this... Read More about ‘It just opens up their world’: autism, empathy, and the therapeutic effects of equine interactions.