Medical anthropology at the intersections : histories, activisms, and futures /

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Imprint:Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Description:viii, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8904053
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Other authors / contributors:Inhorn, Marcia C., 1957-
Wentzell, Emily A., 1980-
ISBN:9780822352518 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822352516 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822352709 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822352702 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of 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.