A reader in medical anthropology : theoretical trajectories, emergent realities /
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| Imprint: | Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. |
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| Description: | xiv, 559 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology ; 14 Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology ; 14. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8002721 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editors
- Introduction
- Part 1. Antecedents
- Introduction
- 1. Massage in Melanesia
- 2. The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events
- 3. Muchona the Hornet, Interpreter of Religion
- 4. The Ojibwa Self and Its Behavioral Environment
- 5. The Charity Physician
- 6. The Role of Beliefs and Customs in Sanitation Programs
- 7. Introduction to Asian Medical Systems
- 8. Medical Anthropology and the Problem of Belief
- Part II. Illness and Narrative, Body and Experience
- Introduction
- 9. Medicine's Symbolic Reality: On a Central Problem in the Philosophy of Medicine
- 10. Elements of Charismatic Persuasion and Healing
- 11. The Thickness of Being: Intentional Worlds, Strategies of Identity, and Experience Among Schizophrenics
- 12. The Concept of Therapeutic 'Emplotment'
- 13. Myths/Histories/Lives
- 14. The State Construction of Affect: Political Ethos and Mental Health Among Salvadoran Refugees
- 15. Struggling Along: The Possibilities for Experience among the Homeless Mentally III
- Part III. Governmentalities and Biological Citizenship
- Introduction
- 16. Dreaming of Psychiatric Citizenship: A Case Study of Supermax Confinement
- 17. Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations
- 18. Human Pharmakon: Symptoms, Technologies, Subjectivities
- 19. The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed
- 20. Where Ethics and Politics Meet: The Violence of Humanitarianism in France
- Part IV. The Biotechnical Embrace
- Introduction
- 21. The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients
- 22. Where It Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation
- 23. "Robin Hood" of Techno-Turkey or Organ Trafficking in the State of Ethical Beings
- 24. Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions
- 25. AIDS in 2006: Moving toward One World, One Hope?
- Part V. Biosciences, Biotechnologies
- Introduction
- 26. Dr. Judah Folkman's Decalogue and Network Analysis
- 27. Beyond Nature and Culture: Modes of Reasoning in the Age of Molecular Biology and Medicine
- 28. Immortality, In Vitro: A History of the HeLa Cell Line
- 29. A Digital Image of the Category of the Person
- 30. Experimental Values: Indian Clinical Trials and Surplus Health
- Part VI. Global Health, Global Medicine
- Introduction
- 31. Medical Anthropology and International Health Planning
- 32. Anthropology and Global Health
- 33. Mot Luuk Problems in Northeast Thailand: Why Women's Own Health Concerns Matter as Much as Disease Rates
- 34. The New Malaise: Medical Ethics and Social Rights in the Global Era
- 35. Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life
- Part VII. Postcolonial Disorders
- Introduction
- 36. Amuk in Java: Madness and Violence in Indonesian Politics
- 37. The Political Economy of 'Trauma' in Haiti in the Democratic Era of Insecurity
- 38. Contract of Mutual (In)Difference: Governance and the Humanitarian Apparatus in Contemporary Albania and Kosovo
- 39. Darfur through a Shoah Lens: Sudanese Asylum Seekers, Unruly Biopolitical Dramas, and the Politics of Humanitarian Compassion in Israel
- 40. The Elegiac Addict: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject
- Index
