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Medical Anthropology at the Intersections : Histories, Activisms, and Futures / Emily A. Wentzell, Marcia C. Inhorn

Kleiman, Arthur [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Fassin, Didier [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Wentzell, Emily A [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Martin, Emily [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Ginsburg, Faye [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Inhorn, Marcia C [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Cohen, Lawrence [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Morgan, Lynn M [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Inhorn, Marcia C [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Lock, Margaret [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Singer, Merrill [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Rapp, Rayna [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Parker, Richard [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Wentzell, Emily A [Herausgeberin/-geber]

Durham : Duke University Press [[2012]], [2012]

1 Online-Ressource (352 p) : 9 illustrations

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978-0-8223-9547-8

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1515/9780822395478

GN296

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bisacsh: SOC002010

LOC-SH: Medical anthropology -- Research ; Medical anthropology -- Study and teaching ; Medical anthropology

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections -- PART I. HISTORIES -- ONE Grafting Together Medical Anthropology, Feminism, and Technoscience -- TWO Getting at Anthropology through Medical History -- THREE Making Peasants Protestant and Other Projects -- PART II. QUERIES -- FOUR That Obscure Object of Global Health -- FIVE Medical Anthropology and Mental Health -- SIX From Genetics to Postgenomics and the Discovery of the New Social Body -- PART III. ACTIVISM -- SEVEN Anthropology and the Study of Disability Worlds -- EIGHT Medical Anthropology and Public Policy -- NINE Critical Intersections and Engagements -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index

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In this important collection, prominent scholars who helped to establish medical anthropology as an area of study reflect on the field's past, present, and future. In doing so, they demonstrate that medical anthropology has developed dynamically, through its intersections with activism, with other subfields in anthropology, and with disciplines as varied as public health, the biosciences, and studies of race and ethnicity. Each of the contributors addresses one or more of these intersections. Some trace the evolution of medical anthropology in relation to fields including feminist technoscience, medical history, and international and area studies. Other contributors question the assumptions underlying mental health, global public health, and genetics and genomics, areas of inquiry now central to contemporary medical anthropology. Essays on the field's engagements with disability studies, public policy, and gender and sexuality studies illuminate the commitments of many medical anthropologists to public-health and human-rights activism. Essential reading for all those interested in medical anthropology, this collection offers productive insight into the field and its future, as viewed by some of the world's leading medical anthropologists.Contributors. Lawrence Cohen, Didier Fassin, Faye Ginsburg, Marcia C. Inhorn, Arthur Kleinman, Margaret Lock, Emily Martin, Lynn M. Morgan, Richard Parker, Rayna Rapp, Merrill Singer, Emily A. Wentzell

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