Title: Medical anthropology at the intersections :
Authors: Inhorn, Marcia C.,; Wentzell, Emily A.,
Date: 2012
Publisher: Duke University Press,
Physical description: viii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC class: G
Abstract: This work offers productive insight into the field of medical anthropology and its future, as viewed by some of the world's leading medical anthropologists.
Contents: 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 M. 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 -- Medical anthropology and public policy : using research to change the world from what it is to what we believe it should be / Merrill Singer -- Critical intersections and engagements : gender, sexuality, health, and rights in medical anthropology / Richard Parker.
Notes: Edited presentations from a Society for Medical Anthropology conference at Yale University, Sept. 24-27, 2009, titled Medical anthropology at the intersections: celebrating fifty years of interdisciplinarity.