@article{66fba2e38a15426ca36746f2416a60ac,
title = "Catching Air: Risk and Embodied Ocean Health among Dominican Diver Fishermen",
abstract = "This article explores the connections between bodily health and environmental health among diver fishermen in the Dominican Republic, and how these relationships are excluded from broader conversations about marine conservation at the national and global levels. As changing ocean environments refigure marine ecosystems, making fish scarce in the shallows, diver fishermen must dive deeper and stay longer in risky conditions, using a compressor to pump an unlimited supply of air to the diver below. As a result, decompression sickness (the bends) has become a pervasive injury and a way that coastal communities experience changing ocean health. The article analyzes injury narratives from divers who “caught air,” the local term for the bends, arguing that decompression sickness is a symptom of failing ecologies and strained human relations with the sea, where environments at risk become embodied through parallel risky practices at sea.",
keywords = "decompression sickness, Dominican Republic, fishing, ocean health, risk",
author = "{Mallon Andrews}, Kyrstin",
note = "Funding Information: .This article was greatly improved by insightful comments from colleagues at UC Irvine. Thank you to Leo Chavez, Valerie Olson, Robin Derby, and the anonymous reviewers for their encouraging comments and suggestions, and to the Elsie Clews Parsons and Rudolf Virchow Prize committees. I am indebted to many generous fishermen who shared their stories and their time with me—Pili, Ni{\~n}o, Henry, and Kennedy in particular—who taught me much about living in the wake of decompression disabilities. This article is dedicated to Ana{\'u} and the many others who have died from decompression accidents off the shores of the northwestern Dominican Republic. You are deeply missed. Research support for this article was provided by the Wenner‐Gren Foundation and by the University of California, Irvine. Acknowledgments Funding Information: .This article was greatly improved by insightful comments from colleagues at UC Irvine. Thank you to Leo Chavez, Valerie Olson, Robin Derby, and the anonymous reviewers for their encouraging comments and suggestions, and to the Elsie Clews Parsons and Rudolf Virchow Prize committees. I am indebted to many generous fishermen who shared their stories and their time with me?Pili, Ni?o, Henry, and Kennedy in particular?who taught me much about living in the wake of decompression disabilities. This article is dedicated to Ana? and the many others who have died from decompression accidents off the shores of the northwestern Dominican Republic. You are deeply missed. Research support for this article was provided by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and by the University of California, Irvine. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 by the American Anthropological Association",
year = "2021",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1111/maq.12592",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "35",
pages = "64--81",
journal = "Medical Anthropology Quarterly",
issn = "0745-5194",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "1",
}