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Troubling natural categories : engaging the medical anthropology of Margaret Lock / edited by Naomi Adelson, Leslie Butt, and Karina Kielmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adelson, Naomi, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lock, Margaret M.
- Medical anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal [Quebec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- A collection of essays taking up Margaret Lock's enduring project to question our deeply held assumptions about biology, medicine, and culture.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Introduction: Margaret Lock and Medical Anthropology
- A Genealogy of Bodily Practices in Post-Soviet Cuba
- Therapeutic Modernism: Medical Pluralism, Local Biologies, and hiv in Côte d’Ivoire
- Rational Sex at the Margins of the State: Sex Work, Violence, and hiv Prevention in Papua, Indonesia
- The Gendering of Depression in Japan
- From Spasmophilia to Social Phobia: Conversions of French Anxiety
- Unconventional Psychiatric Medico-Politicization: The Making and Unmaking of Behavioural Disorders in Pelotas, Brazil
- Cases and Narratives in Private Medical Providers’ Accounts of Managing hiv in Urban India
- Embodied Molecules: Negotiating Medications in Troubled Times
- Digital Landscapes of Health
- Afterword: Seeing Like an Anthropologist
- Selected Awards and Publications by Margaret Lock
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-8907-4
- OCLC:
- 868487713
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