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A Reader in Medical Anthropology
Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities
"The impressive scope of this wonderful reader, drawing on its editors' immense collective experience, offers a marvelous reframing of the foundational debates in twentieth-century medical anthropology, including both the full range of canonical readings but also several texts that should be canonical. It links these debates to a wide range of contemporary work, serving as much as an introduction to the discipline’s future as to its past." "This collection is distinctive for its range, depth, and most of all for its taste in theoretical ingenuity and the most compelling, memorable writing in contemporary medical anthropology." "A Reader in Medical Anthropology is uniquely successful in assembling seminal publications representing the century-long history of medical anthropology. It is the first collection to successfully combine the diverse perspectives, epistemologies, and topical interests of contemporary medical anthropology with its intellectual wellsprings." "This collection of classic and innovative essays adds lustre and new, surprising facets to the anthropology of medicine. It crystallizes the most important and compelling cultural analysis of human disease and social suffering, personal trauma, and global insecurity."
—Lawrence Cohen, University of California, Berkeley
—George Marcus, University of California, Irvine
—Allan Young, McGill University
—Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney
Byron J. Good (Edited by), BJ Good (Author), Michael M. J. Fischer (Edited by), Sarah S. Willen (Edited by), Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good (Edited by)
9781405183154, Wiley
Hardback, published 14 May 2010
576 pages
25.4 x 18 x 3.1 cm, 1.025 kg
A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities brings together articles from the key theoretical approaches in the field of medical anthropology as well as related science and technology studies. The editors’ comprehensive introductions evaluate the historical lineages of these approaches and their value in addressing critical problems associated with contemporary forms of illness experience and health care.
Acknowledgments ix About the Editors xiii Introduction 1 Part I Antecedents 7 Introduction 9 1 Massage in Melanesia 15 2 The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events 18 3 Muchona the Hornet, Interpreter of Religion 26 4 The Ojibwa Self and Its Behavioral Environment 38 5 The Charity Physician 47 6 The Role of Beliefs and Customs in Sanitation Programs 50 7 Introduction to Asian Medical Systems 55 8 Medical Anthropology and the Problem of Belief 64 Part II Illness and Narrative, Body and Experience 77 Introduction 79 9 Medicine’s Symbolic Reality: On a Central Problem in the Philosophy of Medicine 85 10 Elements of Charismatic Persuasion and Healing 91 11 The Thickness of Being: Intentional Worlds, Strategies of Identity, and Experience Among Schizophrenics 108 12 The Concept of Therapeutic ‘Emplotment’ 121 13 Myths/Histories/Lives 137 14 The State Construction of Affect: Political Ethos and Mental Health Among Salvadoran Refugees 143 15 Struggling Along: The Possibilities for Experience among the Homeless Mentally Ill 160 Part III Governmentalities and Biological Citizenship 175 Introduction 177 16 Dreaming of Psychiatric Citizenship: A Case Study of Supermax Confinement 181 17 Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations 199 18 Human Pharmakon: Symptoms, Technologies, Subjectivities 213 19 The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed 232 20 Where Ethics and Politics Meet: The Violence of Humanitarianism in France 245 Part IV The Biotechnical Embrace 263 Introduction 265 21 The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients 272 22 Where It Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation 284 23 ‘‘Robin Hood’’ of Techno-Turkey or Organ Trafficking in the State of Ethical Beings 300 24 Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions 319 25 AIDS in 2006: Moving toward One World, One Hope? 327 Part V Biosciences, Biotechnologies 331 Introduction 333 26 Dr. Judah Folkman’s Decalogue and Network Analysis 339 27 Beyond Nature and Culture: Modes of Reasoning in the Age of Molecular Biology and Medicine 345 28 Immortality, In Vitro: A History of the HeLa Cell Line 353 29 A Digital Image of the Category of the Person 367 30 Experimental Values: Indian Clinical Trials and Surplus Health 377 Part VI Global Health, Global Medicine 389 Introduction 391 31 Medical Anthropology and International Health Planning 394 32 Anthropology and Global Health 405 33 Mot Luuk Problems in Northeast Thailand: Why Women’s Own Health Concerns Matter as Much as Disease Rates 422 34 The New Malaise: Medical Ethics and Social Rights in the Global Era 437 35 Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life 452 Part VII Postcolonial Disorders 467 Introduction 469 36 Amuk in Java: Madness and Violence in Indonesian Politics 473 37 The Political Economy of ‘Trauma’ in Haiti in the Democratic Era of Insecurity 481 38 Contract of Mutual (In)Difference: Governance and the Humanitarian Apparatus in Contemporary Albania and Kosovo 496 39 Darfur through a Shoah Lens: Sudanese Asylum Seekers, Unruly Biopolitical Dramas, and the Politics of Humanitarian Compassion in Israel 505 40 The Elegiac Addict: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject 522 Index 540
W. H. R. Rivers
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
Victor Turner
Irving A. Hallowell
Rudolf Virchow
Benjamin Paul
Charles Leslie
Byron J. Good
Arthur M. Kleinman
Thomas J. Csordas
Ellen Corin
Cheryl Mattingly
Michael Jackson
Janis Hunter Jenkins
Robert Desjarlais
Lorna A. Rhodes
Adriana Petryna
João Biehl
Veena Das
Miriam Ticktin
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
Lawrence Cohen
Aslihan Sanal
Marcia C. Inhorn
Jim Yong Kim and Paul Farmer
Michael M. J. Fischer
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Hannah Landecker
Joseph Dumit
Kaushik Sunder Rajan
George M. Foster
Craig R. Janes and Kitty K. Corbett
Pimpawun Boonmongkon, Mark Nichter, and Jen Pylypa
Paul Farmer
Didier Fassin
Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
Erica James
Mariella Pandolfi
Sarah S. Willen
Angela Garcia
Subject Areas: Archaeology [HD]
