Medical anthropology at the intersections: histories, activisms, and futures

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 W...

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Other Authors: Inhorn, Marcia Claire 1957- (Contributor), Wentzell, Emily A. 1980- (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, N.C. Duke University Press 2012
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Summary: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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 342 p ill.)
ISBN:9780822395478
0822395479