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

Other author Inhorn, Marcia C., 1957-
Other author Wentzell, Emily A., 1980-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Descriptionviii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

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 M. 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 -- Medical anthropology and public policy : using research to change the world from what it is to what we believe it should be / Merrill Singer -- Critical intersections and engagements : gender, sexuality, health, and rights in medical anthropology / Richard Parker.
General noteEdited presentations from a Society for Medical Anthropology conference at Yale University, Sept. 24-27, 2009, titled Medical anthropology at the intersections: celebrating fifty years of interdisciplinarity.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [251]-306) and index.
LCCN 2011053300
ISBN9780822352518 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822352516 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822352709 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0822352702 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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