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Medical anthropology at the intersections : histories, activisms, and futures / Marcia C. Inhorn and Emily A. Wentzell, editors.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.Description: viii, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780822352709 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780822352518 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4/61 23
Contents:
Introduction : medical anthropology at the intersections / Marcia C. Inhorn and Emily A. Wentzell -- Grafting together medical anthropology, feminism and technoscience / Emily Martin -- Getting at anthropology through medical history : notes on the consumption of Chinese embryos and fetuses in the Western imagination / Lynn Morgan -- Making peasants Protestant, and other projects : medical anthropology and its global condition / Lawrence Cohen -- That obscure object of global health / Didier Fassin -- Medical anthropology and mental health : five questions for the next fifty years / Arthur Kleinman -- From genetics to postgenomics and the discovery of the new social body / Margaret Lock -- Anthropology and the study of disability worlds / Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg -- Critical intersections/engagements : gender, sexuality, health and rights in medical anthropology / Richard Parker -- Medical anthropology and public policy : using research to change the world from what it is to what we believe it should be / Merrill Singer.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-311) and index.

Introduction : medical anthropology at the intersections / Marcia C. Inhorn and Emily A. Wentzell -- Grafting together medical anthropology, feminism and technoscience / Emily Martin -- Getting at anthropology through medical history : notes on the consumption of Chinese embryos and fetuses in the Western imagination / Lynn Morgan -- Making peasants Protestant, and other projects : medical anthropology and its global condition / Lawrence Cohen -- That obscure object of global health / Didier Fassin -- Medical anthropology and mental health : five questions for the next fifty years / Arthur Kleinman -- From genetics to postgenomics and the discovery of the new social body / Margaret Lock -- Anthropology and the study of disability worlds / Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg -- Critical intersections/engagements : gender, sexuality, health and rights in medical anthropology / Richard Parker -- Medical anthropology and public policy : using research to change the world from what it is to what we believe it should be / Merrill Singer.

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