{"product_id":"arc-of-interference-9781478019800","title":"Arc of Interference","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe radically humanistic essays in\u003ci\u003eArc of Interference\u003c\/i\u003e refigure our sense of the real, the ethical, and the political in the face of mounting social and planetary upheavals. Creatively assembled around Arthur Kleinman’s medical anthropological arc and eschewing hegemonic modes of intervention, the essays advance the notion of a care-ful ethnographic praxis of interference. To interfere is to dislodge ideals of naturalness, blast enduring binaries (human\/nonhuman, self\/other, us\/them), and redirect technocratic agendas while summoning relational knowledge and the will to create community. The book’s multiple ethnographic arcs of interference provide a vital conceptual toolkit for today’s world and a badly needed moral perch from which to peer toward just horizons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contributors. Vincanne Adams, João Biehl, Davíd Carrasco, Lawrence Cohen, Jean Comaroff, Robert Desjarlais, Paul Farmer, Marcia Inhorn, Janis H. Jenkins, David S. Jones, Salmaa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a book about life and death and about the aftermath of death. That alone makes it relevant to our species and to others, but \u003ci\u003eArc of Interference\u003c\/i\u003e is also a book about the possibility of something more and something wonderful: across the continents, people struggle to care for one another.” -- Paul Farmer, from the Foreword\u003cbr\u003e“In this rich collection, leading medical anthropologists demonstrate ethnography as care. Attending to intimate realities and to the productive power of narrative, they use anthropology for collective healing.” -- Helena Hansen, coauthor of * Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eArc of Interference\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for anyone who cares about our troubled times. Its ethnographic creations mend what is broken by asking us to listen, care, and act.” -- Angela Garcia, author of * The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande *\u003cbr\u003e“A major undertaking of humanist anthropology, this volume insists on the necessity of medical anthropology for facing the great challenges of our time, from pandemics and structural violence to climate change and political oppression. \u003ci\u003eArc of Interference\u003c\/i\u003e is a milestone in medical anthropology.” -- Susan Reynolds Whyte, editor of * Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Biehl, Adams, and their contributors have . . . penned a classic in \u003ci\u003eArc of Interference\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . In our current times of reckoning–both global and disciplinary–contributions like \u003ci\u003eArc of Interference \u003c\/i\u003eare a good place to start.” \u003c\/p\u003e -- Evelyn Hoon * LSE Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As a family physician who treats patients, not disease states, I found this book both reinvigorating and challenging. ... The book is a worthwhile read for physicians who care for their patients, whether domestically or globally.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Mark K. Huntington * Family Medicine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword. Against the Grain: Medical Anthropology in the Anthropocene \/ Paul Farmer  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Art of Interference \/ João Biehl and Vincanne Adams  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Traversing Imperiled Worlds and Envisaging Human Futures\u003cbr\u003e 1. Death by Fire: The Problem of Moral Certainty in China’s Tibet \/ Vincanne Adams  23\u003cbr\u003e 2. Bringing Up the Bodies: Erasing and Caring for Mexicans in the Mexico-US Borderland \/ Davíd Carrasco  42\u003cbr\u003e 3. In the Vast Abrupt: Horizon Work in an Age of Runaway Climate Change \/ Adriana Petryna  65\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Category Fallacy and Care Amid the Experts\u003cbr\u003e 4. Justifying a Lower Standard of Health Care for the World’s Poor: A Call of Decolonizing Global Health \/ Salmaan Keshavjee  91\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Moral Economies of Heart Disease and Cardiac Care in India \/ David S. Jones  112\u003cbr\u003e 6. Intimate and Social Spheres of Mental Illness \/ Janis H. Jenkins  133\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Worlds of Biotechnological Promise and the Plasticity of Self and Power\u003cbr\u003e 7. A Good Death: The Promise and Threat of Biometric Inclusion for Transgender Women in India \/ Lawrence Cohen  161\u003cbr\u003e 8. Medical Cosmopolitanism in Moral Worlds: Aspirations and Stratifications in Global Quests for Conception \/ Marcia C. Inhorn  187\u003cbr\u003e 9. Environments and Mutable Selves \/ Margaret Lock  210\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Tracing Arts of Living (Or, Anthropologies After Hope Has Departed)\u003cbr\u003e 10. Anthropology in a Mode of Dying \/ Robert Desjarlais  239\u003cbr\u003e 11. Ethnographic Open \/ João Biehl  257\u003cbr\u003e 12. Thinking on Borrowed Time . . . About Privileging the Human \/ Jean Comaroff  287\u003cbr\u003e Afterword. Lessons Learned from the Ethnography of Care \/ Arthur Kleinman  305\u003cbr\u003e In Memoriam  327\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  329\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  331\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  371\u003cbr\u003e Index  373","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409012040023,"sku":"9781478019800","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478019800.jpg?v=1730505086","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/arc-of-interference-9781478019800","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}