ISBN:
0822352702
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0822395479
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9780822352709
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0822352516
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9780822352518
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9780822395478
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9781283542128
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (viii, 342 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
e-Duke books scholarly collection
Parallel Title:
Print version Medical Anthropology at the Intersections : Histories, Activisms, and Futures
DDC:
306.4/61
Keywords:
Medical anthropology Study and teaching
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Medical anthropology Research
;
Medical anthropology
;
Medical anthropology -- Study and teaching
;
Medical anthropology -- Research
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
In Medical Anthropololgy at the Intersections, leading figures in medical anthropology reflect on the field s past, present, and future, considering how it has developed dynamically in relation to activism, other anthropological subfields, and other disciplines
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections / Marcia C. Inhorn and Emily A. Wentzell; Part I. Histories; One: Grafting Together Medical Anthropology, Feminism, and Technoscience / Emily Martin; Two: Getting at Anthropology through Medical History: Notes on the Consumption of Chinese Embryos and Fetuses in the Western Imagination / Lynn M. Morgan; Three: Making Peasants Protestant and Other Projects: Medical Anthropology and Its Global Condition / Lawrence Cohen; Part II. Queries; Four: That Obscure Object of Global Health / Didier Fassin
Description / Table of Contents:
Five: Medical Anthropology and Mental Health: Five Questions for the Next Fifty Years / Arthur KleinmanSix: From Genetics to Postgenomics and the Discovery of the New Social Body / Margaret Lock; Part III. Activisms; Seven: Anthropology and the Study of Disability Worlds / Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg; Eight: Medical Anthropology and Public Policy: Using Research to Change the World from What It Is to What We Believe It Should Be / Merrill Singer; Nine: Critical Intersections and Engagements: Gender, Sexuality, Health, and Rights in Medical Anthropology / Richard Parker; Notes; References
Description / Table of Contents:
ContributorsIndex
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : medical anthropology at the intersections / Marcia C. Inhorn and Emily A. Wentzell -- Grafting together medical anthropology, feminism and technoscience / Emily Martin -- Getting at anthropology through medical history : notes on the consumption of Chinese embryos and fetuses in the Western imagination / Lynn Morgan -- Making peasants Protestant, and other projects : medical anthropology and its global condition / Lawrence Cohen -- That obscure object of global health / Didier Fassin -- Medical anthropology and mental health : five questions for the next fifty years / Arthur Kleinman -- From genetics to postgenomics and the discovery of the new social body / Margaret Lock -- Anthropology and the study of disability worlds / Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg -- Critical intersections/engagements : gender, sexuality, health and rights in medical anthropology / Richard Parker -- Medical anthropology and public policy : using research to change the world from what it is to what we believe it should be / Merrill Singer.
Description / Table of Contents:
medical anthropology at the intersections / Marcia C. Inhorn and Emily A. Wentzell -- Grafting together medical anthropology, feminism and technoscience / Emily Martin -- Getting at anthropology through medical history : notes on the consumption of Chinese embryos and fetuses in the Western imagination / Lynn Morgan -- Making peasants Protestant, and other projects : medical anthropology and its global condition / Lawrence Cohen -- That obscure object of global health / Didier Fassin -- Medical anthropology and mental health : five questions for the next fifty years / Arthur Kleinman -- From genetics to postgenomics and the discovery of the new social body / Margaret Lock -- Anthropology and the study of disability worlds / Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg -- Critical intersections/engagements : gender, sexuality, health and rights in medical anthropology / Richard Parker -- Medical anthropology and public policy : using research to change the world from what it is to what we believe it should be / Merrill Singer
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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