Medical Anthropology at the Intersections (eBook, PDF)

Histories, Activisms, and Futures
Redaktion: Marcia C. Inhorn, Inhorn

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822395478
• Artikelnr.: 54787419

Autorenporträt

Marcia C. Inhorn and Emily A. Wentzell, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections / Marcia C. Inhorn
and Emily A. Wentzell 1
Part I. Histories
1. Grafting Together Medical Anthropology, Feminism, and Technoscience /
Emily Martin 23
2. Getting at Anthropology through Medical History: Notes on the
Consumption of Chinese Embryos and Fetuses in the Western Imagination /
Lynn M. Morgan 41
3. Making Peasants Protestant and Other Projects: Medical Anthropology and
Its Global Condition / Lawrence Cohen 65
Part II. Queries
4. That Obscure Object of Global Health / Didier Fassin 95
5. Medical Anthropology and Mental Health: Five Questions for the Next
Fifty Years / Arthur Kleinman 116
6. From Genetics to Postgenomics and the Discovery of the New Social Body /
Margaret Lock 129
Part III. Activisms
7. Anthropology and the Study of Disability Worlds / Rayna Rapp and Faye
Ginsburg 163
8. Medical Anthropology and Public Policy: Using Research to Change the
World from What It Is to What We Believe it Should Be / Merrill Singer 183
9. Critical Intersections and Engagements: Gender, Sexuality, Health, and
Rights in Medical Anthropology / Richard Parker 206
Notes 239
References 251
Contributors 307
Index 313