Troubling natural categories : engaging the medical anthropology of Margaret Lock / edited by Naomi Adelson, Leslie Butt, and Karina Kielmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adelson, Naomi, 1958- editor.

Butt, Leslie, 1960- editor.

Kielmann, Karina, 1965- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical anthropology.

Lock, Margaret M.

Physical Description:

vi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013]

Summary:

Where do our conventional understandings of health, illness, and the body stem from? What makes them authoritative? How are the boundaries set around these areas of life unsettled in the changing historical and political contexts of science, technology, and health care delivery? These questions are at the heart of Troubling Natural Categories, a collection of essays honouring the tradition of Margaret Lock, one of the preeminent medical anthropologists of our time. Throughout her career, Lock has investigated how medicine sets boundaries around what is deemed "normal" and "natural," and how, in turn, these ideas shape our technical and moral understandings of life, sickness, and death. In this book, nine established medical anthropologists-all former students of Lock-critically engage with her work, offering ethnographic and historical analyses that problematize established constructs in health and medicine in a range of global settings. The essays elaborate on cutting-edge themes within medical anthropology, including the often disturbing, inherently political nature? of biomedicine and biotechnology, the medicalization of mental health processes, and the formation of uniquely "local biologies" through the convergence of bodily experience, scientific discourse, and new technologies of care. Troubling Natural Categories not only affirms Margaret Lock's place at the forefront of scholarship but carves out new intellectual directions in the medical social sciences. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 A Genealogy of Bodily Practices in Post-Soviet Cuba / P. Sean Brotherton Brotherton, P. Sean 16

2 Therapeutic Modernism: Medical Pluralism, Local Biologies, and HIV in Côte d'Ivoire / Vinh-Kim Nguyen Nguyen, Vinh-Kim 34

3 Rational Sex at the Margins of the State: Sex Work, Violence, and HIV Prevention in Papua, Indonesia / Leslie Butt Butt, Leslie 58

4 The Gendering of Depression in Japan / Junko Kitanaka Kitanaka, Junko 80

5 From Spasmophilia to Social Phobia: Conversions of French Anxiety / Stephanie Lloyd Lloyd, Stephanie 102

6 Unconventional Psychiatric Medico-Politicization: The Making and Unmaking of Behavioural Disorders in Pelotas, Brazil / Dominique P. Béhague Béhague, Dominique P. 123

7 Cases and Narratives in Private Medical Providers' Accounts of Managing HIV in Urban India / Karina Kielmann Kielmann, Karina 145

8 Embodied Molecules: Negotiating Medications in Troubled Times / Annette Leibing Leibing, Annette 168

9 Digital Landscapes of Health / Naomi Adelson Adelson, Naomi 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Troubling natural categories.

ISBN:

9780773541993

0773541993

9780773542006

0773542000

OCLC:

843859486