An anthropology of biomedicine /
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| Author / Creator: | Lock, Margaret M., author. |
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Imprint: | Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018. ©2018 |
| Description: | xiii, 545 pages ; 26 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11456081 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The Argument
- Interwoven Themes
- Improving Global Health: The Challenge
- Biomedicine as Technology
- Does Culture Exist?
- A word About Ethnography
- Section 1.
- 1. Biomedical Technologies in Practice
- Technological Mastery of the Natural World and Human Development
- Technology and Boundary Crossings
- Biomedicine as Technology: Some Implications
- Technologies of Bodily Governance
- Technologies of the Self
- The Power of Biological Reductionism
- Techno/Biologicals
- 2. The Normal Body
- Cholera in the Nineteenth Century
- Representing the Natural Order
- Truth to Nature
- The Natural Body
- A Numerical Approach
- Other Natures
- Interpreting the Body
- How Normal Became Possible
- When Normal Does not Exist
- Problems with Assessing Normal
- Pathologizing the 'Normal'
- Limitations to Biomedical 'Objectivity'
- Better than Well?
- 3. Anthropologies of Medicine
- The Body Social
- Contextualizing Medical Knowledge
- Medical Pluralism
- The Modernization of 'Traditional' Medicine
- Medical Hybridization
- Biodiversity and Indigenous Medical Knowledge
- Self-medication
- A Short History of Medicalization
- Opposition to Medicalization
- The Social Construction of Illness and Disease and Beyond
- The Politics of Medicalization
- Beyond Medicalization?
- In Pursuit of Health
- In Summary
- Section 2.
- 4. Colonial Disease and Biological Commensurability
- An Anthropological Perspective on Global Biomedicine
- Biomedicine as a Tool of Empire
- Acclimatization and Racial Difference
- Colonial Epidemics; Microbial Theories Prove their Worth
- Fear of Biomedicine
- Microbiology as a Global Standard
- Infertility and Childbirth as Critical Events
- Birthing in the Belgian Congo
- A Global Practice of Fertility Control
- Intimate Colonialism: The Biomedicalization of Domesticity
- Biomedicine, Evangelism and Consciousness
- The Biological Standardization of Hunger
- The Colonial Discovery of Malnutrition
- Albumin as Surplus
- The Biologization of Salvation
- In Summary
- 5. Grounds for Comparison: Biology and Human Experiments
- The Laboratory as the Site of Comparison
- The Colonial Laboratory
- Experimental Bodies
- Pise of the Clinical Trial
- Taming Chance
- The Alchemy of the Randomized Controlled Trial
- The Problem of Generalizability
- Medical Standardization and Contested Evidence
- Anthropological Perspectives on Clinical Trials: The West African Ebola Epidemic
- 'Jiki': A Clinical Trial Amidst the Ebola Epidemic
- Context of the Clinical Trial
- Globalizing Clinical Research
- What Should Count as Evidence?
- Economies of Blood
- Experimental Communities: Social Relations
- In Summary
- 6. The Right Population
- The Origins of Population as a 'Problem'
- Addressing the 'Problem' of Population
- Improving the Stock of Nations
- Contraceptive Technologies and Family Planning
- Indian Family Planning - meeting Quotas
- Increasing Fertility with Contraceptive Use
- The One-child Policy
- Biomedical Technology and Sex Selection
- Contextualizing Sex Selection: India and 'Family Balancing'
- Contextualizing Sex Selection: Disappeared Girls in China
- Sex Selection in a Global Context
- Ghost Children, Little Emperors, Burgeoning Elders
- Reproducing Nationalism
- In Summary
- Section 3.
- 7. Who Owns the Body?
- Commodification of Human Biological Material
- Objects of Worth and their Alienation
- The Wealth of Inalienable Goods
- A Bioeconomy of Human Biological Materials
- Who Owns the Body?
- Gifting Life
- Commodification of Eggs and Sperm
- Medical Tourism
- Immortalized Cell Lines
- The Exotic Other
- Biological Databases
- Concluding Comments
- 8. The Social Life of Human Organs
- Bioavailability - Who Becomes a Donor?
- The Biopolitics of Organ Transplants
- A Shortage of Organs
- Inventing a New Death
- The Good-as-dead
- Struggling for National Consensus
- A Rapacious Need for Organs
- The Social Life of Human Organs
- When Resources are in Short Supply
- Liminal Lives
- Does the Body Belong to God?
- Altruism, Entitlement and Commodification
- 9. Making Kinship: Infertility and Assisted Reproduction
- Assisted Reproductive Technologies
- Problematizing Infertility Figures
- From Underfertility to Overfertility
- Reproducing Culture
- Assisted Reproduction in the United States
- Assisted Reproduction in Egypt
- Assisted Reproduction in Israel
- ART and the Reproduction of Normalcy
- Global Hubs of Conception
- Section 4.
- 10. The Sociotechnical Self
- The Biological Boundary Between Self and Other
- The Sociotechnical Self
- Technologies of the Self
- Technologies of the Self in Biomedicine
- The Unconscious as Technology of the Self
- The Discovery of an Unconscious Self
- Unlocking the Pathogenic Secret
- The Pathogenic Secret as a Mode of Subjection
- The Making of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- The Practitioner-self
- Producing the Self Through Talking Technologies: Technologies of Health Promotion
- Technologies of Empowerment
- Technologies of Self-help
- Confessional Technologies
- The Globalization of the Unconscious
- Beyond Freud to the Neurosciences
- The Psychiatric Self
- Psychopharmaceuticals
- Addiction and the Lie
- Conclusion
- 11. Genes as Embodied Risk
- From Hazard to Embodied Risk
- From Generation to Rewriting Life
- Genomic Hype
- Geneticization
- Genetic Testing and Human Contingency
- Genetic Citizenship and Future Promise in America
- Biosociality and the Affiliation of Genes
- Community-based Participatory Research
- Genetic Information and Hybrid Causality
- Genetic Testing in the Era of Personalized Medicine
- Genetic Screening
- Screening as a Collective Endeavour
- Race and Genetic Testing
- Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
- Is a Neo-Eugenics Looming on the Horizon?
- 12. Global Health
- What is Global Health, and How is it Different from International Health?
- Metrics and the Global Clinic
- Botswana's Cancer Ward
- Leukaemia in the Indian Ocean
- Value in Global Health: A Global Market for Diagnostics and Drugs
- When Markets don't Work
- Medical Humanitarianism and 'Philanthrocapitalism'
- Regimes of Anticipation in Global Health: Epidemics Fast and Slow
- An Anthropology of Preparedness
- The Politics of Anticipation
- Conclusion
- Section 5.
- 13. From Local to Situated Biologies
- The End of Menstruation
- Local Biologies
- Kuru and Endocannibalism
- Racism and Birth Weight
- Agent Orange and Foetal Abnormalities in Vietnam
- An Abundance of Local Biologies
- Local Biology and the Erosion of Universal Bodies
- Rethinking Biology in the Midst of Life's Complexity
- Is Biology Real?
- In Summary
- 14. Of Microbes and Humans
- The Microbial Arms Race
- Warfare and Iraqibacter
- Debates About the Origin of HIV
- From Versus to Commensals: Microbiomes and Metagenomes
- The Human Ecosystem
- 15. Genomics, Epigenomics and Uncertain Futures
- Divining the Contemporary
- Amassing and Systematizing DNA
- The APOE Gene and Alzheimer's Disease
- Genetic Testing for Late-onset Alzheimer's Disease
- Interpretations of Risk Estimates
- Dethroning the Gene?
- Eclipse of the Genotype-phenotype Dogma
- Does a Programme for Life Exist?
- Learning (Again) to Live with Uncertainty
- Epigenetics: Overtaking Genetic Determinism
- From Epigenesis to Epigenetics
- Molecular Epigenetics and the Reactive Genome
- Miniaturization of the Environment
- Embedded Bodies
- Epigenetics and the Womb
- Food as Environment
- Social Deprivation
- Ageing and Epigenetics
- From Causality to Contingency
- 16. Molecularizing Racial Difference
- Molecular Biology and Racial Politics
- The Molecularization of Race
- Bioethnic Conscription
- Racialized Allelic Variation
- Mexican Genomics
- Discordant Genomic Knowledge
- Commodifying 'Race' and Ancestry
- Looping Effects
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
