Living and dying in the contemporary world : a compendium / Veena Das and Clara Han, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Das, Veena, editor.

Han, Clara, 1975- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social history--21st century.

Social history.

Life--Cross-cultural studies.

Life.

Death--Cross-cultural studies.

Death.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (891 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Taking a novel approach to the contradictory impulses of violence and care, illness and healing, this book radically shifts the way we think of the interrelations of institutions and experiences in a globalizing world. Living and Dying in the Contemporary World is not just another reader in medical anthropology but a true tour de force-a deep exploration of all that makes life unbearable and yet livable through the labor of ordinary people. This book comprises forty-four chapters by scholars whose ethnographic and historical work is conducted around the globe, including South Asia, East Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Bringing together the work of established scholars with the vibrant voices of younger scholars, Living and Dying in the Contemporary World will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, health scientists, scholars of religion, and all who are curious about how to relate to the rapidly changing institutions and experiences in an ever more connected world.

Contents:

Living and Dying in the Contemporary World

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Concept Note

Section 1. Natality, Sexuality, Reproduction

1. Maternal Mortality, Technological Innovations, and Therapeutic Strategies

2. Conceiving Life and Death: Stem Cell Technologies and Assisted Conception in India and the Middle East

3. The Pregnant Hijra: Laughter, Dead Babies, and Invaluable Love

4. New Lives for Children: Adoption Documents and the Law in Central Mexico

5. Transnational Adoption and (Im)possible Lives

6. "Forced Pregnancy," Humanitarian Access to Reproductive Rights, and Locating "Life" within the Powers of "Death"

7. Bleeding Dreams: Miscarriage and the Bindings of the Unborn in the Palestinian Refugee Community of Tyre, South Lebanon

Section 2. Medical, Legal, and Pharmaceutical Spaces

8. Waiting and the Architecture of Care

9. The Social Phenomenology of the Next Epidemic: Pain and the Politics of Relief in Botswana's Cancer Ward

10. Living and Dying in Mental Health: Guns, Race, and the History of Schizophrenic Violence

11. The Wealth of Populations: Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Rural Central China

12. Living and Dying with Mycobacteria: Tuberculosis and the Regulation of Anti-tuberculous Drugs in Nepal

13. The Juridical Hospital

14. The Right of Recovery

15. Just Living: Law, Life, Livelihood, and Sexual Assault

16. "If You Remember, You Can't Live": Trauma, Insecurity, and the F/utility of "PTSD" in Haiti

17. Death as a Resource for Life

Section 3. Healing: Religious and Secular Bodies

18. Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics

19. Nonself Help: How Immunology Might Reframe the Enlightenment

20. Secular Histories, Saintly Returns: Death and Devotion in Modern Turkey

21. The Good and the Bad Breast: Cosmetic Surgery and Breast Cancer

22. Attachments of Life: Intimacy, Genital Injury, and the Flesh of the U.S. Soldier Body

23. Key Acts: Organ Transplantation and Subjectivities in the Public Sphere

24. Life, Death, and Reverie: Method in a Congolese Medical History

Section 4. Precarious Lives

25. Life and Concept

26. Never Quite Given: Calling into Question the Relation between Person and World in Post-invasion Iraq

27. Mourning, Grief, and the Loss of Politics in Palestine: The Unvoiced Effects of Military Occupation in the West Bank

28. Echoes of a Death: Violence, Endurance, and the Experiences of Loss

29. Walking Through: Movement, Schizophrenia, and the Vicissitudes of Presence

30. "Not Dead Yet": Changing Disability Imaginaries in the Twenty-First Century

31. Suffering from Evidence: Expertise, Racial Health Disparities, and the Case of Jerry

32. "God Isn't Finished with This City Yet": Disputing Katrina-Related Deaths in Post-disaster New Orleans

33. Hunger and Thirst: Crises at Varying Thresholds of Life

34. "Tibet on Fire": Self-Immolation, Affect, and the Global "N of 1"

Section 5. Death and Dying

35. After Life

36. A Good Death, Recorded

37. Lonely Death: Possibilities for a Not-Yet Sociality

38. Chemonotes

39. The Experience of Death in a Dutch Nursing Home: On Touching the Other

40. Life beside Itself

41. Traces of Destruction and the Thread of Continuity in Post-genocide Cambodia

42. Corpus Vile: Death and Expendable Youth in Urban Congo

43. The Value of Life and the Worth of Lives

44. The Evolution of Mortality Rates by Sex: The Experiences of the Rich and the Uncertainties of the Not-So-Rich

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520961067

0520961064

OCLC:

928891509