For centuries, clinicians have been taught to examine and classify patients on the basis of topographical lesion and the underlying pathology. In most clinical specialities, such an approach has been a key element in understanding the pathophysiology of diseases and has led to progress in terms of finding disease modifying or even disease curing therapies. Examples are multiple including bacter...

Many cities in the Global South are structurally different from Northern, particularly American, on which much of urban sociology’s conceptual apparatus has been based. Thus, depicting them terms a standard vocabulary risks imposing an inappropriate way seeing. We need that is able to accommodate their experience. This special issue contributes work building vocabulary. select five keywords soc...