ISSN:
0145-9740
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Medical anthropology : cross-cultural studies in health and illness
Publ. der Quelle:
London [u.a.] : Taylor & Francis
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 35, No. 3 (2016), p. 203
DDC:
570
Abstract:
A nonsecular medical anthropology insists on the ways medicine and science have constituted 'the secular' itself through the 'secular self'-how medical knowing has been used to craft the secular political subject. As James Boon noted, too often in social theory, "religion gets safely tucked away-restricted theoretically to 'meaning' rather than power" (1998:245). The authors of the six articles in this special issue 'untuck' religiosity from within the norms and numbers of medicine itself, and examine how 'secular' medicine has relied on religious traditions to produce political secularity. These articles demonstrate that 'secular' medicine relies on religious others whose exclusion bespeaks latent religious commitments of citizenship in the modern political realm of health.
Note:
Copyright: © 2016 Taylor & Francis 2016
DOI:
10.1080/01459740.2015.1118099
URL:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01459740.2015.1118099
URL:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26652795
URL:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1788247760
