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Book SynopsisA 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.
- Presents a key selection of both classic and new agenda-setting articles in medical anthropology
- Provides analytic and historical contextual introductions by leading figures in medical anthropology, medical sociology, and science and technology studies
- Critically reviews the contribution of medical anthropology to a new global health movement that is reshaping international health agendas
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
About the Editors xiii
Introduction 1
Part I Antecedents 7
Introduction 9
1 Massage in Melanesia 15
W. H. R. Rivers
2 The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events 18
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
3 Muchona the Hornet, Interpreter of Religion 26
Victor Turner
4 The Ojibwa Self and Its Behavioral Environment 38
Irving A. Hallowell
5 The Charity Physician 47
Rudolf Virchow
6 The Role of Beliefs and Customs in Sanitation Programs 50
Benjamin Paul
7 Introduction to Asian Medical Systems 55
Charles Leslie
8 Medical Anthropology and the Problem of Belief 64
Byron J. Good
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
Arthur M. Kleinman
10 Elements of Charismatic Persuasion and Healing 91
Thomas J. Csordas
11 The Thickness of Being: Intentional Worlds, Strategies of Identity, and Experience Among Schizophrenics 108
Ellen Corin
12 The Concept of Therapeutic ‘Emplotment’ 121
Cheryl Mattingly
13 Myths/Histories/Lives 137
Michael Jackson
14 The State Construction of Affect: Political Ethos and Mental Health Among Salvadoran Refugees 143
Janis Hunter Jenkins
15 Struggling Along: The Possibilities for Experience among the Homeless Mentally Ill 160
Robert Desjarlais
Part III Governmentalities and Biological Citizenship 175
Introduction 177
16 Dreaming of Psychiatric Citizenship: A Case Study of Supermax Confinement 181
Lorna A. Rhodes
17 Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations 199
Adriana Petryna
18 Human Pharmakon: Symptoms, Technologies, Subjectivities 213
João Biehl
19 The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed 232
Veena Das
20 Where Ethics and Politics Meet: The Violence of Humanitarianism in France 245
Miriam Ticktin
Part IV The Biotechnical Embrace 263
Introduction 265
21 The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients 272
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
22 Where It Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation 284
Lawrence Cohen
23 ‘‘Robin Hood’’ of Techno-Turkey or Organ Trafficking in the State of Ethical Beings 300
Aslihan Sanal
24 Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions 319
Marcia C. Inhorn
25 AIDS in 2006: Moving toward One World, One Hope? 327
Jim Yong Kim and Paul Farmer
Part V Biosciences, Biotechnologies 331
Introduction 333
26 Dr. Judah Folkman’s Decalogue and Network Analysis 339
Michael M. J. Fischer
27 Beyond Nature and Culture: Modes of Reasoning in the Age of Molecular Biology and Medicine 345
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
28 Immortality, In Vitro: A History of the HeLa Cell Line 353
Hannah Landecker
29 A Digital Image of the Category of the Person 367
Joseph Dumit
30 Experimental Values: Indian Clinical Trials and Surplus Health 377
Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Part VI Global Health, Global Medicine 389
Introduction 391
31 Medical Anthropology and International Health Planning 394
George M. Foster
32 Anthropology and Global Health 405
Craig R. Janes and Kitty K. Corbett
33 Mot Luuk Problems in Northeast Thailand: Why Women’s Own Health Concerns Matter as Much as Disease Rates 422
Pimpawun Boonmongkon, Mark Nichter, and Jen Pylypa
34 The New Malaise: Medical Ethics and Social Rights in the Global Era 437
Paul Farmer
35 Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life 452
Didier Fassin
Part VII Postcolonial Disorders 467
Introduction 469
36 Amuk in Java: Madness and Violence in Indonesian Politics 473
Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
37 The Political Economy of ‘Trauma’ in Haiti in the Democratic Era of Insecurity 481
Erica James
38 Contract of Mutual (In)Difference: Governance and the Humanitarian Apparatus in Contemporary Albania and Kosovo 496
Mariella Pandolfi
39 Darfur through a Shoah Lens: Sudanese Asylum Seekers, Unruly Biopolitical Dramas, and the Politics of Humanitarian Compassion in Israel 505
Sarah S. Willen
40 The Elegiac Addict: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject 522
Angela Garcia
Index 540
