Arc of Interference
Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge
Herausgeber: Biehl, João
Arc of Interference
Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge
Herausgeber: Biehl, João
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Arc of Interference revisits the vital and core insights of medical anthropology in light of contemporary planetary and social crises, showing how the field provides central practices for understanding, interfering in, and refashioning a world full of mounting dilemmas.
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Arc of Interference revisits the vital and core insights of medical anthropology in light of contemporary planetary and social crises, showing how the field provides central practices for understanding, interfering in, and refashioning a world full of mounting dilemmas.
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- Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
- Verlag: Duke University Press
- Seitenzahl: 408
- Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2023
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
- Gewicht: 618g
- ISBN-13: 9781478019800
- ISBN-10: 1478019808
- Artikelnr.: 64265314
- Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
- Verlag: Duke University Press
- Seitenzahl: 408
- Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2023
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
- Gewicht: 618g
- ISBN-13: 9781478019800
- ISBN-10: 1478019808
- Artikelnr.: 64265314
João Biehl is Susan Dod Brown Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Princeton University and coeditor of Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming, also published by Duke University Press. Vincanne Adams is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of California, San Francisco and author of Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move, also published by Duke University Press. Paul Farmer (1959–2022) was Kolokotrones University Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Foreword. Against the Grain: Medical Anthropology in the Anthropocene /
Paul Farmer xi
Introduction. Art of Interference / João Biehl and Vincanne Adams 1
Part I. Traversing Imperiled Worlds and Envisaging Human Futures
1. Death by Fire: The Problem of Moral Certainty in China’s Tibet /
Vincanne Adams 23
2. Bringing Up the Bodies: Erasing and Caring for Mexicans in the Mexico-US
Borderland / Davíd Carrasco 42
3. In the Vast Abrupt: Horizon Work in an Age of Runaway Climate Change /
Adriana Petryna 65
Part II. The Category Fallacy and Care Amid the Experts
4. Justifying a Lower Standard of Health Care for the World’s Poor: A Call
of Decolonizing Global Health / Salmaan Keshavjee 91
5. The Moral Economies of Heart Disease and Cardiac Care in India / David
S. Jones 112
6. Intimate and Social Spheres of Mental Illness / Janis H. Jenkins 133
Part III. Worlds of Biotechnological Promise and the Plasticity of Self and
Power
7. A Good Death: The Promise and Threat of Biometric Inclusion for
Transgender Women in India / Lawrence Cohen 161
8. Medical Cosmopolitanism in Moral Worlds: Aspirations and Stratifications
in Global Quests for Conception / Marcia C. Inhorn 187
9. Environments and Mutable Selves / Margaret Lock 210
Part IV. Tracing Arts of Living (Or, Anthropologies After Hope Has
Departed)
10. Anthropology in a Mode of Dying / Robert Desjarlais 239
11. Ethnographic Open / João Biehl 257
12. Thinking on Borrowed Time . . . About Privileging the Human / Jean
Comaroff 287
Afterword. Lessons Learned from the Ethnography of Care / Arthur Kleinman
305
In Memoriam 327
Acknowledgments 329
Bibliography 331
Contributors 371
Index 373
Paul Farmer xi
Introduction. Art of Interference / João Biehl and Vincanne Adams 1
Part I. Traversing Imperiled Worlds and Envisaging Human Futures
1. Death by Fire: The Problem of Moral Certainty in China’s Tibet /
Vincanne Adams 23
2. Bringing Up the Bodies: Erasing and Caring for Mexicans in the Mexico-US
Borderland / Davíd Carrasco 42
3. In the Vast Abrupt: Horizon Work in an Age of Runaway Climate Change /
Adriana Petryna 65
Part II. The Category Fallacy and Care Amid the Experts
4. Justifying a Lower Standard of Health Care for the World’s Poor: A Call
of Decolonizing Global Health / Salmaan Keshavjee 91
5. The Moral Economies of Heart Disease and Cardiac Care in India / David
S. Jones 112
6. Intimate and Social Spheres of Mental Illness / Janis H. Jenkins 133
Part III. Worlds of Biotechnological Promise and the Plasticity of Self and
Power
7. A Good Death: The Promise and Threat of Biometric Inclusion for
Transgender Women in India / Lawrence Cohen 161
8. Medical Cosmopolitanism in Moral Worlds: Aspirations and Stratifications
in Global Quests for Conception / Marcia C. Inhorn 187
9. Environments and Mutable Selves / Margaret Lock 210
Part IV. Tracing Arts of Living (Or, Anthropologies After Hope Has
Departed)
10. Anthropology in a Mode of Dying / Robert Desjarlais 239
11. Ethnographic Open / João Biehl 257
12. Thinking on Borrowed Time . . . About Privileging the Human / Jean
Comaroff 287
Afterword. Lessons Learned from the Ethnography of Care / Arthur Kleinman
305
In Memoriam 327
Acknowledgments 329
Bibliography 331
Contributors 371
Index 373
Foreword. Against the Grain: Medical Anthropology in the Anthropocene /
Paul Farmer xi
Introduction. Art of Interference / João Biehl and Vincanne Adams 1
Part I. Traversing Imperiled Worlds and Envisaging Human Futures
1. Death by Fire: The Problem of Moral Certainty in China’s Tibet /
Vincanne Adams 23
2. Bringing Up the Bodies: Erasing and Caring for Mexicans in the Mexico-US
Borderland / Davíd Carrasco 42
3. In the Vast Abrupt: Horizon Work in an Age of Runaway Climate Change /
Adriana Petryna 65
Part II. The Category Fallacy and Care Amid the Experts
4. Justifying a Lower Standard of Health Care for the World’s Poor: A Call
of Decolonizing Global Health / Salmaan Keshavjee 91
5. The Moral Economies of Heart Disease and Cardiac Care in India / David
S. Jones 112
6. Intimate and Social Spheres of Mental Illness / Janis H. Jenkins 133
Part III. Worlds of Biotechnological Promise and the Plasticity of Self and
Power
7. A Good Death: The Promise and Threat of Biometric Inclusion for
Transgender Women in India / Lawrence Cohen 161
8. Medical Cosmopolitanism in Moral Worlds: Aspirations and Stratifications
in Global Quests for Conception / Marcia C. Inhorn 187
9. Environments and Mutable Selves / Margaret Lock 210
Part IV. Tracing Arts of Living (Or, Anthropologies After Hope Has
Departed)
10. Anthropology in a Mode of Dying / Robert Desjarlais 239
11. Ethnographic Open / João Biehl 257
12. Thinking on Borrowed Time . . . About Privileging the Human / Jean
Comaroff 287
Afterword. Lessons Learned from the Ethnography of Care / Arthur Kleinman
305
In Memoriam 327
Acknowledgments 329
Bibliography 331
Contributors 371
Index 373
Paul Farmer xi
Introduction. Art of Interference / João Biehl and Vincanne Adams 1
Part I. Traversing Imperiled Worlds and Envisaging Human Futures
1. Death by Fire: The Problem of Moral Certainty in China’s Tibet /
Vincanne Adams 23
2. Bringing Up the Bodies: Erasing and Caring for Mexicans in the Mexico-US
Borderland / Davíd Carrasco 42
3. In the Vast Abrupt: Horizon Work in an Age of Runaway Climate Change /
Adriana Petryna 65
Part II. The Category Fallacy and Care Amid the Experts
4. Justifying a Lower Standard of Health Care for the World’s Poor: A Call
of Decolonizing Global Health / Salmaan Keshavjee 91
5. The Moral Economies of Heart Disease and Cardiac Care in India / David
S. Jones 112
6. Intimate and Social Spheres of Mental Illness / Janis H. Jenkins 133
Part III. Worlds of Biotechnological Promise and the Plasticity of Self and
Power
7. A Good Death: The Promise and Threat of Biometric Inclusion for
Transgender Women in India / Lawrence Cohen 161
8. Medical Cosmopolitanism in Moral Worlds: Aspirations and Stratifications
in Global Quests for Conception / Marcia C. Inhorn 187
9. Environments and Mutable Selves / Margaret Lock 210
Part IV. Tracing Arts of Living (Or, Anthropologies After Hope Has
Departed)
10. Anthropology in a Mode of Dying / Robert Desjarlais 239
11. Ethnographic Open / João Biehl 257
12. Thinking on Borrowed Time . . . About Privileging the Human / Jean
Comaroff 287
Afterword. Lessons Learned from the Ethnography of Care / Arthur Kleinman
305
In Memoriam 327
Acknowledgments 329
Bibliography 331
Contributors 371
Index 373