Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures

Published by Duke University Press 2012

Medical Anthropology at the Intersections

Histories, Activisms, and Futures

Edited by: Marcia C. Inhorn and Emily A. Wentzell

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822395478

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University. She is past president of the Society for Medical Anthropology and the author, most recently, of The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East.

Emily A. Wentzell is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa.

Reviews

"A wonderful feat by an eminent group of scholars, this exhilarating book charts medical anthropology's diverse intellectual history and future challenges and shows why the field is so critical for anthropological theory and practice today."—João Biehl, author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment and Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival

"Imagining the future of medical anthropology, this collection vigorously conveys the theoretical roots of engaged social activisms committed to equity, rights, and sociopolitical change in mental health and humanitarianism, in feminist projects on technoscience and reproduction, and in initiatives related to HIV and sexuality."—Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, coeditor of A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities

“An assessment of disciplinary progress to date and potential next steps is rejuvenating, rewarding, and necessary. This excellent edited volume, Medical Anthropology at the Intersections, does just that…. [I]t will serve as a valuable learning tool for advanced undergraduate or graduate students. Even for those already familiar with the breadth and depth of each of the contributing scholars’ writing, there is much to be gained from a close read of every chapter.”

-- Vanessa M. Hildebrand American Ethnologist

“The contributors have seriously pondered the future of medical anthropology, and their prescriptions are a thread that runs throughout the volume . . . scholars and practitioners in other disciplines will be given a strong grounding in the theoretical and substantive contexts from which medical anthropologists ask their questions.”

-- Alexandra Widmer Bulletin of the History of Medicine

“Medical Anthropology at the Intersections provides an excellent overview of many of the concerns of medical anthropologists both at the theoretical and applied levels fifty years into what has proven to be a dynamic subfield of the parent discipline.”

-- Hans A. Baer Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

"The breadth and scope with which the discipline’s past and present are brought to, together by some of the field’s most influential figures, qualify this volume as essential reading for medical anthropology graduate students at any stage, whether just beginning their training, preparing for comprehensive exams, or doing thesis work."

-- Laura L. Heinemann Anthropos

"A solid addition to medical anthropology, interdisciplinary by nature."

-- Darryl Stellmach New Genetics and Society

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections Marcia C. Inhorn and Emily A. Wentzell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. HISTORIES
ONE Grafting Together Medical Anthropology, Feminism, and Technoscience Emily Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
TWO Getting at Anthropology through Medical History Notes on the Consumption of Chinese Embryos and Fetuses in the Western Imagination Lynn M. Morgan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
THREE Making Peasants Protestant and Other Projects Medical Anthropology and Its Global Condition Lawrence Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
PART II. QUERIES
FOUR That Obscure Object of Global Health Didier Fassin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
FIVE Medical Anthropology and Mental Health Five Questions for the Next Fifty Years Arthur Kleiman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
SIX From Genetics to Postgenomics and the Discovery of the New Social Body Margaret Lock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
PART III. ACTIVISM
SEVEN Anthropology and the Study of Disability Worlds Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
NINE Critical Intersections and Engagements Gender, Sexuality, Health, and Rights in Medical Anthropology Richard Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 352
Illustrations
- Other: 9 illustrations

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Published: July 19, 2012
ISBN: 9780822395478