{"product_id":"medical-anthropology-at-the-intersections-9780822352709","title":"Medical Anthropology at the Intersections","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMedical Anthropololgy at the Intersections\u003c\/i\u003e, leading figures in medical anthropology reflect on the fields past, present, and future, considering how it has developed dynamically in relation to activism, other anthropological subfields, and other disciplines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A wonderful feat by an eminent group of scholars, this exhilarating book charts medical anthropology's diverse intellectual history and future challenges and shows why the field is so critical for anthropological theory and practice today.\"—\u003cb\u003eJoão Biehl\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eVita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWill to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Imagining the future of medical anthropology, this collection vigorously conveys the theoretical roots of engaged social activisms committed to equity, rights, and sociopolitical change in mental health and humanitarianism, in feminist projects on technoscience and reproduction, and in initiatives related to HIV and sexuality.\"—\u003cb\u003eMary-Jo DelVecchio Good\u003c\/b\u003e, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eA Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An assessment of disciplinary progress to date and potential next steps is rejuvenating, rewarding, and necessary. This excellent edited volume, \u003ci\u003eMedical Anthropology at the Intersections\u003c\/i\u003e, does just that…. [I]t will serve as a valuable learning tool for advanced undergraduate or graduate students. Even for those already familiar with the breadth and depth of each of the contributing scholars’ writing, there is much to be gained from a close read of every chapter.” -- Vanessa M. Hildebrand * American Ethnologist *\u003cbr\u003e“The contributors have seriously pondered the future of medical anthropology, and their prescriptions are a thread that runs throughout the volume . . . scholars and practitioners in other disciplines will be given a strong grounding in the theoretical and substantive contexts from which medical anthropologists ask their questions.” -- Alexandra Widmer * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMedical Anthropology at the Intersections\u003c\/i\u003e provides an excellent overview of many of the concerns of medical anthropologists both at the theoretical and applied levels fifty years into what has proven to be a dynamic subfield of the parent discipline.” -- Hans A. Baer * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *\u003cbr\u003e\"The breadth and scope with which the discipline’s past and present are brought to, together by some of the field’s most influential figures, qualify this volume as essential reading for medical anthropology graduate students at any stage, whether just beginning their training, preparing for comprehensive exams, or doing thesis work.\" -- Laura L. Heinemann * Anthropos *\u003cbr\u003e\"A solid addition to medical anthropology, interdisciplinary by nature.\" -- Darryl Stellmach * New Genetics and Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections \/ Marcia C. Inhorn and Emily A. Wentzell 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Histories \u003cbr\u003e 1. Grafting Together Medical Anthropology, Feminism, and Technoscience \/ Emily Martin 23\u003cbr\u003e 2. Getting at Anthropology through Medical History: Notes on the Consumption of Chinese Embryos and Fetuses in the Western Imagination \/ Lynn M. Morgan 41\u003cbr\u003e 3. Making Peasants Protestant and Other Projects: Medical Anthropology and Its Global Condition \/ Lawrence Cohen 65\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Queries \u003cbr\u003e 4. That Obscure Object of Global Health \/ Didier Fassin 95\u003cbr\u003e 5. Medical Anthropology and Mental Health: Five Questions for the Next Fifty Years \/ Arthur Kleinman 116\u003cbr\u003e 6. From Genetics to Postgenomics and the Discovery of the New Social Body \/ Margaret Lock 129\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Activisms \u003cbr\u003e 7. Anthropology and the Study of Disability Worlds \/ Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg 163\u003cbr\u003e 8. Medical Anthropology and Public Policy: Using Research to Change the World from What It Is to What We Believe it Should Be \/ Merrill Singer 183\u003cbr\u003e 9. Critical Intersections and Engagements: Gender, Sexuality, Health, and Rights in Medical Anthropology \/ Richard Parker 206\u003cbr\u003e Notes 239\u003cbr\u003e References 251\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 307\u003cbr\u003e Index 313","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406071243095,"sku":"9780822352709","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822352709.jpg?v=1730494428","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/medical-anthropology-at-the-intersections-9780822352709","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}