Read more
Informationen zum Autor Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University. She is past president of the Society for Medical Anthropology and the author, most recently, of The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East.Emily A. Wentzell is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. Klappentext Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University. She is past president of the Society for Medical Anthropology and the author, most recently, of The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East.Emily A. Wentzell is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. Zusammenfassung In Medical Anthropololgy at the Intersections! leading figures in medical anthropology reflect on the fields past! present! and future! considering how it has developed dynamically in relation to activism! other anthropological subfields! and other disciplines. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections / Marcia C. Inhorn and Emily A. Wentzell 1 Part I. Histories 1. Grafting Together Medical Anthropology, Feminism, and Technoscience / Emily Martin 23 2. Getting at Anthropology through Medical History: Notes on the Consumption of Chinese Embryos and Fetuses in the Western Imagination / Lynn M. Morgan 41 3. Making Peasants Protestant and Other Projects: Medical Anthropology and Its Global Condition / Lawrence Cohen 65 Part II. Queries 4. That Obscure Object of Global Health / Didier Fassin 95 5. Medical Anthropology and Mental Health: Five Questions for the Next Fifty Years / Arthur Kleinman 116 6. From Genetics to Postgenomics and the Discovery of the New Social Body / Margaret Lock 129 Part III. Activisms 7. Anthropology and the Study of Disability Worlds / Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg 163 8. Medical Anthropology and Public Policy: Using Research to Change the World from What It Is to What We Believe it Should Be / Merrill Singer 183 9. Critical Intersections and Engagements: Gender, Sexuality, Health, and Rights in Medical Anthropology / Richard Parker 206 Notes 239 References 251 Contributors 307 Index 313...
