Inhorn, Marcia Claire (Editor)
Wentzell, Emily A. (Editor)
Duke University Press
Physical Details: viii + 342 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English
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.
...MoreDescription Contents:
Essay Review Martyr, Philippa (2014) From Witchdoctor to Which Doctor. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 315-317).
Chapter Martin, Emily (2012) Grafting Together Medical Anthropology, Feminism, and Technoscience. In: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures (p. 23).
Chapter Morgan, Lynn M. (2012) Getting at Anthropology through Medical History: Notes on the Consumption of Chinese Embryos and Fetuses in the Western Imagination. In: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures (p. 41).
Chapter Cohen, Lawrence (2012) Making Peasants Protestant and Other Projects: Medical Anthropology and Its Global Condition. In: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures (p. 65).
Chapter Fassin, Didier (2012) That Obscure Object of Global Health. In: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures (p. 95).
Chapter Kleinman, Arthur (2012) Medical Anthropology and Mental Health: Five Questions for the Next Fifty. In: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures (p. 116).
Chapter Lock, Margaret (2012) From Genetics to Postgenomics and the Discovery of the New Social. In: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures (p. 129).
Chapter Rapp, Rayna; Ginsburg, Faye (2012) Anthropology and the Study of Disability Worlds. In: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures (p. 163).
Chapter Singer, Merrill (2012) Medical Anthropology and Public Policy: Using Research to Change the World from What It Is to What We Believe It Should Be. In: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures (p. 183).
Chapter Parker, Richard (2012) Critical Intersections and Engagements: Gender, Sexuality, Health, and Rights in Medical Anthropology. In: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures (p. 206).
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