A Reader in Medical Anthropology Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities

by Good, Byron J.; Fischer, Michael M. J.; Willen, Sarah S.; DelVecchio Good, Mary-Jo

• ISBN13: 9781405183147
• ISBN10: 1405183144
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-22
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities brings together exemplary articles on the key theoretical approaches in the field of medical anthropology and related science and technology studies. The editors' comprehensive introductions evaluate the historical lineages of this research and its value in addressing critical problems associated with contemporary forms of illness experience. 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 Demonstrates and examines the contribution of medical anthropology to a new global health movement aimed at reshaping international health agendas

Author Biography

Byron J. Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. Michael M. J. Fischer 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. Sarah S. Willen 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. Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good is Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and in the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
About the Editors	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Antecedents	p. 7
Introduction	p. 9
Massage in Melanesia	p. 15
The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events	p. 18
Muchona the Hornet, Interpreter of Religion	p. 26
The Ojibwa Self and Its Behavioral Environment	p. 38
The Charity Physician	p. 47
The Role of Beliefs and Customs in Sanitation Programs	p. 50
Introduction to Asian Medical Systems	p. 55
Medical Anthropology and the Problem of Belief	p. 64
Illness and Narrative, Body and Experience	p. 77
Introduction	p. 79
Medicine's Symbolic Reality: On a Central Problem in the Philosophy of Medicine	p. 85
Elements of Charismatic Persuasion and Healing	p. 91
The Thickness of Being: Intentional Worlds, Strategies of Identity, and Experience Among Schizophrenics	p. 108
The Concept of Therapeutic 'Emplotment'	p. 121
Myths/Histories/Lives	p. 137
The State Construction of Affect: Political Ethos and Mental Health Among Salvadoran Refugees	p. 143
Struggling Along: The Possibilities for Experience among the Homeless Mentally Ill	p. 160
Governmentalities and Biological Citizenship	p. 175
Introduction	p. 177
Dreaming of Psychiatric Citizenship: A Case Study of Supermax Confinement	p. 181
Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations	p. 199
Human Pharmakon: Symptoms, Technologies, Subjectivities	p. 213
The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed	p. 232
Where Ethics and Politics Meet: The Violence of Humanitarianism in France	p. 245
The Biotechnical Embrace	p. 263
Introduction	p. 265
The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients	p. 272
Where It Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation	p. 284
"Robin Hood" of Techno-Turkey or Organ Trafficking in the State of Ethical Beings	p. 300
Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions	p. 319
AIDS in 2006: Moving toward One World, One Hope?	p. 327
Biosciences, Biotechnologies	p. 331
Introduction	p. 333
Dr. Judah Folkman's Decalogue and Network Analysis	p. 339
Beyond Nature and Culture: Modes of Reasoning in the Age of Molecular Biology and Medicine	p. 345
Immortality, In Vitro: A History of the HeLa Cell Line	p. 353
A Digital Image of the Category of the Person	p. 367
Experimental Values: Indian Clinical Trials and Surplus Health	p. 377
Global Health, Global Medicine	p. 389
Introduction	p. 391
Medical Anthropology and International Health Planning	p. 394
Anthropology and Global Health	p. 405
Mot Luuk Problems in Northeast Thailand: Why Women's Own Health Concerns Matter as Much as Disease Rates	p. 422
The New Malaise: Medical Ethics and Social Rights in the Global Era	p. 437
Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life	p. 452
Postcolonial Disorders	p. 467
Introduction	p. 469
Amuk in Java: Madness and Violence in Indonesian Politics	p. 473
The Political Economy of 'Trauma' in Haiti in the Democratic Era of Insecurity	p. 481
Contract of Mutual (In)Difference: Governance and the Humanitarian Apparatus in Contemporary Albania and Kosovo	p. 496
Darfur through a Shoah Lens: Sudanese Asylum Seekers, Unruly Biopolitical Dramas, and the Politics of Humanitarian Compassion in Israel	p. 505
The Elegiac Addict: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject	p. 522
Index	p. 540
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