Book ID: CBB001251701

Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures (2012)

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Inhorn, Marcia Claire (Editor)
Wentzell, Emily A. (Editor)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2012
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.

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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). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Martin, Emily (2012) Grafting Together Medical Anthropology, Feminism, and Technoscience. In: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures (p. 23). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

Chapter Fassin, Didier (2012) That Obscure Object of Global Health. In: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures (p. 95). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Marco D. Ornelas-Cruces
Alonso-Pavón, José Antonio
Erica Torrens-Rojas
Greene, Molly Anderson
Granados-Riveros, Martha Lucía
Barbujani, Guido
Concepts
Genetics
Genomics
Physical anthropology
DNA; RNA
Human body
Science and race
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
Early modern
18th century
Places
United States
Mexico
Great Britain
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