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Medical anthropology at the intersections : histories, activisms, and futures / Marcia C. Inhorn and Emily A. Wentzell, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical anthropology.
- Medical anthropology--Study and teaching.
- Medical anthropology--Research.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Medical Anthropololgy at the Intersections, leading figures in medical anthropology reflect on the field s past, present, and future, considering how it has developed dynamically in relation to activism, other anthropological subfields, and other disciplines.
- 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 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
- Critical intersections/engagements : gender, sexuality, health and rights in medical anthropology / Richard Parker
- Medical anthropology and public policy : using research to change the world from what it is to what we believe it should be / Merrill Singer.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613854575
- 9781283542128
- 1283542129
- 9780822395478
- 0822395479
- OCLC:
- 807127288
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