{"product_id":"a-reader-in-medical-anthropology-isbn-9781405183147","title":"A Reader in Medical Anthropology","description":"\u003ci\u003eA Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents a key selection of both classic and new agenda-setting articles in medical anthropology\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides analytic and historical contextual introductions by leading figures in medical anthropology, medical sociology, and science and technology studies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCritically reviews the contribution of medical anthropology to a new global health movement that is reshaping international health agendas\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Editors xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Antecedents 7\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Massage in Melanesia 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eW. H. R. Rivers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eE. E. Evans-Pritchard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Muchona the Hornet, Interpreter of Religion 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVictor Turner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Ojibwa Self and Its Behavioral Environment 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrving A. Hallowell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Charity Physician 47\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRudolf Virchow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Role of Beliefs and Customs in Sanitation Programs 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBenjamin Paul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Introduction to Asian Medical Systems 55\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles Leslie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Medical Anthropology and the Problem of Belief 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eByron J. Good\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Illness and Narrative, Body and Experience 77\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Medicine’s Symbolic Reality: On a Central Problem in the Philosophy of Medicine 85\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArthur M. Kleinman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Elements of Charismatic Persuasion and Healing 91\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas J. Csordas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Thickness of Being: Intentional Worlds, Strategies of Identity, and Experience Among Schizophrenics 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEllen Corin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The Concept of Therapeutic ‘Emplotment’ 121\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCheryl Mattingly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Myths\/Histories\/Lives 137\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Jackson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The State Construction of Affect: Political Ethos and Mental Health Among Salvadoran Refugees 143\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJanis Hunter Jenkins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Struggling Along: The Possibilities for Experience among the Homeless Mentally Ill 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Desjarlais\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Governmentalities and Biological Citizenship 175\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Dreaming of Psychiatric Citizenship: A Case Study of Supermax Confinement 181\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLorna A. Rhodes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations 199\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdriana Petryna\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Human Pharmakon: Symptoms, Technologies, Subjectivities 213\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoão Biehl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVeena Das\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Where Ethics and Politics Meet: The Violence of Humanitarianism in France 245\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiriam Ticktin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV The Biotechnical Embrace 263\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 265\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMary-Jo DelVecchio Good\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Where It Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLawrence Cohen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 ‘‘Robin Hood’’ of Techno-Turkey or Organ Trafficking in the State of Ethical Beings 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAslihan Sanal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions 319\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarcia C. Inhorn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 AIDS in 2006: Moving toward One World, One Hope? 327\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJim Yong Kim and Paul Farmer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Biosciences, Biotechnologies 331\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 333\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Dr. Judah Folkman’s Decalogue and Network Analysis 339\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael M. J. Fischer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Beyond Nature and Culture: Modes of Reasoning in the Age of Molecular Biology and Medicine 345\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHans-Jörg Rheinberger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Immortality, In Vitro: A History of the HeLa Cell Line 353\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHannah Landecker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 A Digital Image of the Category of the Person 367\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoseph Dumit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Experimental Values: Indian Clinical Trials and Surplus Health 377\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaushik Sunder Rajan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Global Health, Global Medicine 389\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 391\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Medical Anthropology and International Health Planning 394\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge M. Foster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Anthropology and Global Health 405\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCraig R. Janes and Kitty K. Corbett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Mot Luuk Problems in Northeast Thailand: Why Women’s Own Health Concerns Matter as Much as Disease Rates 422\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePimpawun Boonmongkon, Mark Nichter, and Jen Pylypa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 The New Malaise: Medical Ethics and Social Rights in the Global Era 437\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Farmer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life 452\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDidier Fassin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII Postcolonial Disorders 467\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 469\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Amuk in Java: Madness and Violence in Indonesian Politics 473\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eByron J. Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 The Political Economy of ‘Trauma’ in Haiti in the Democratic Era of Insecurity 481\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eErica James\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 Contract of Mutual (In)Difference: Governance and the Humanitarian Apparatus in Contemporary Albania and Kosovo 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMariella Pandolfi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Darfur through a Shoah Lens: Sudanese Asylum Seekers, Unruly Biopolitical Dramas, and the Politics of Humanitarian Compassion in Israel 505\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarah S. Willen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 The Elegiac Addict: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject 522\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAngela Garcia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 540\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eByron J. Good\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Medical Anthropology, Depart­ment of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Professor in the Department of Anthropol­ogy, Harvard University.   \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael M. J. Fischer\u003c\/b\u003e is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah S. Willen\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. She has been an NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and has taught in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary-Jo DelVecchio Good\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and in the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003eA Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities\u003c\/i\u003e brings together essays that represent key themes in the vibrant field of medical anthropology: its theoretical legacy; phenomenologies of illness and narrative, body and experience; biological citizenship; the biotechnical embrace; the new medical biosciences; global health and medicine; postcolonial power relations and the humanitarian challenges of the contemporary world.  \u003cp\u003eThis ground-breaking reader brings together a vital set of theoretical traditions that are deftly responsive to emergent realities in clinical medicine, biomedical science, global health, humanitarian intervention, global politics, and everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"The impressive scope of this wonderful reader, drawing on its editors' immense collective experience, offers a marvelous reframing of the foundational debates in twentieth-century medical anthropology, including both the full range of canonical readings but also several texts that should be canonical. It links these debates to a wide range of contemporary work, serving as much as an introduction to the discipline’s future as to its past.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eLawrence Cohen, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"This collection is distinctive for its range, depth, and most of all for its taste in theoretical ingenuity and the most compelling, memorable writing in contemporary medical anthropology.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eGeorge Marcus, University of California, Irvine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Reader in Medical Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e is uniquely successful in assembling seminal publications representing the century-long history of medical anthropology. It is the first collection to successfully combine the diverse perspectives, epistemologies, and topical interests of contemporary medical anthropology with its intellectual wellsprings.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eAllan Young, McGill University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This collection of classic and innovative essays adds lustre and new, surprising facets to the anthropology of medicine. It crystallizes the most important and compelling cultural analysis of human disease and social suffering, personal trauma, and global insecurity.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eWarwick Anderson, University of Sydney\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988643692773,"sku":"NP9781405183147","price":66.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405183147.jpg?v=1761781091","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-reader-in-medical-anthropology-isbn-9781405183147","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}