ISBN:
0415277930
,
0415278066
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 312 p)
,
ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health v. 8
Parallel Title:
Print version New Horizons in Medical Anthropology : Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie
DDC:
306.4/61
Keywords:
Leslie, Charles M
;
Medical anthropology
;
Sociology, Medical
;
Anthropology, Cultural
;
Festschrift
Abstract:
These cutting edge essays and case studies on issues like AIDS, medical technologies and overpopulation, are collected here in honour of Charles Leslie, the influential anthropologist
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: From documenting medical pluralism to critical interpretations of globalized health knowledge, policies, and practices; Governing bodies in New Order Indonesia; Too bold, too hot: Crossing ~culture~ in AIDS prevention in Nepal; The social relations of therapy management; Making sense out of modernity; A return to scientific racism in medical social sciences: The case of sexuality and the AIDS epidemic in Africa; ~We five, our twenty-five~: Myths of population out of control in contemporary India
Description / Table of Contents:
Establishing proof: Translating ~science~ and the state in Tibetan medicineNotes on the evolution of evolutionary psychiatry; Utopias of health, eugenics, and germline engineering; Killing and healing revisited: On cultural difference, warfare, and sacrifice; Charles Leslie's Publications; Index
Note:
"Routledge Harwood anthropology"--Cover
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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