New Horizons in Medical Anthropology (eBook, ePUB)

Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie
Redaktion: Lock, Margaret; Nichter, Mark

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"New Horizons in Medical Anthropology" is a cutting edge volume in honor of Charles Leslie, a highly respected medical anthropologist whose influential career has shaped this branch of anthropology as it is studied and theorized today. Written by former students and colleagues of Charles Leslie, this collection of papers deals with issues as diverse as AIDS and new medical technologies, therapy management and overpopulation, with case studies from Africa and Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134471270
• Artikelnr.: 47885303

Autorenporträt

Mark Nichter is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Margaret Lock is Professor in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine and in the Department of Anthropology, McGill University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction - From documenting medical pluralism to critical
interpretations of globalized health knowledge, policies, and practices
Mark Nichter and Margaret Lock 2. Governing bodies in new order Indonesia
Steve Ferzacca 3. Too bold, too hot: Crossing 'culture' in AIDS prevention
in Nepal Stacy Leigh Pigg 4. The social relations of therapy management
Mark Nichter 5.Making sense out of modernity Marina Roseman 6. A return to
scientific racism in medical social sciences: the case of sexuality and the
AIDS epidemic in Africa Gilles Bibeau and Duncan Pedersen 7. 'We five, our
twenty-five': Myths of population out of control in contemporary India
Patricia Jeffrey and Roger Jeffrey 8. Establishing proof: translating
'science' and the state in Tibetan medicine Vincanne Adams 9. Notes on the
evolution of evolutionary psychiatry Allan Young 10. Utopias of health,
eugenics, and germline engineering Margaret Lock 11. Killing and healing
revisited: on cultural difference, warfare, and sacrifice Margaret Trawick