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New Horizons in Medical Anthropology Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Routledge
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New Horizons in Medical Anthropology is a festschrift in honor of Charles Leslie whose influential career helped shape this subfield of anthropology. This collection of cutting-edge essays explores medical innovation and medical pluralism at the turn of the 21st century. The book accomplishes two things: it reflects recent research by medical anthropologists working in Asia who have been... Read more
1. Introduction - From documenting medical pluralism to critical interpretations of globalized health knowledge, policies, and practices Mark Nichter and Margaret Lock 2. Governing bodies in new order Indonesia Steve Ferzacca 3. Too bold, too hot: Crossing 'culture' in AIDS prevention in Nepal Stacy Leigh Pigg 4. The social relations of therapy management Mark Nichter 5.Making sense out of modernity Marina Roseman 6. A return to scientific racism in medical social sciences: the case of sexuality and the AIDS epidemic in Africa Gilles Bibeau and Duncan Pedersen 7. 'We five, our twenty-five': Myths of population out of control in contemporary India Patricia Jeffrey and Roger Jeffrey 8. Establishing proof: translating 'science' and the state in Tibetan medicine Vincanne Adams 9. Notes on the evolution of evolutionary psychiatry Allan Young 10. Utopias of health, eugenics, and germline engineering Margaret Lock 11. Killing and healing revisited: on cultural difference, warfare, and sacrifice Margaret Trawick
Biography
Mark Nichter is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Margaret Lock is Professor in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine and in the Department of Anthropology, McGill University.
'The volume presents a number of cutting-edge essays in medical anthropology drawing on Leslie's intellectual heritage.' – Journal of Social Anthropology
