Medical Anthropology at the Intersections

Histories, Activisms, and Futures
Herausgeber: Inhorn, Marcia C

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Produktbeschreibung

In Medical Anthropololgy at the Intersections, leading figures in medical anthropology reflect on the fields past, present, and future, considering how it has developed dynamically in relation to activism, other anthropological subfields, and other disciplines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 159mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9780822352709
• ISBN-10: 0822352702
• Artikelnr.: 34966865

Autorenporträt

Marcia C. Inhorn and Emily A. Wentzell, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections / Marcia C. Inhorn
and Emily A. Wentzell 1
Part I. Histories
1. Grafting Together Medical Anthropology, Feminism, and Technoscience /
Emily Martin 23
2. Getting at Anthropology through Medical History: Notes on the
Consumption of Chinese Embryos and Fetuses in the Western Imagination /
Lynn M. Morgan 41
3. Making Peasants Protestant and Other Projects: Medical Anthropology and
Its Global Condition / Lawrence Cohen 65
Part II. Queries
4. That Obscure Object of Global Health / Didier Fassin 95
5. Medical Anthropology and Mental Health: Five Questions for the Next
Fifty Years / Arthur Kleinman 116
6. From Genetics to Postgenomics and the Discovery of the New Social Body /
Margaret Lock 129
Part III. Activisms
7. Anthropology and the Study of Disability Worlds / Rayna Rapp and Faye
Ginsburg 163
8. Medical Anthropology and Public Policy: Using Research to Change the
World from What It Is to What We Believe it Should Be / Merrill Singer 183
9. Critical Intersections and Engagements: Gender, Sexuality, Health, and
Rights in Medical Anthropology / Richard Parker 206
Notes 239
References 251
Contributors 307
Index 313