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: 9781405183154
• ISBN10: 1405183152
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-22
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Presents a key selection of both classic and new agenda-setting articles Provides analytic and historical contextual introductions by leading figures in medical anthropology, medical sociology, science studies, social theory and general anthropology

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. Widen 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

About the Editors

Introduction

Antecedents

Introduction

Massage in Melanesia

The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events

Muchona the Hornet, Interpreter of Religion

The Ojibwa Self and Its Behavioral Environment

The Charity Physician

The Role of Beliefs and Customs in Sanitation Programs

Introduction to Asian Medical Systems

Medical Anthropology and the Problem of Belief

Illness and Narrative, Body and Experience

Introduction

Medicine's Symbolic Reality: On a Central Problem in the Philosophy of Medicine

Elements of Charismatic Persuasion and Healing

The Thickness of Being: Intentional Worlds, Strategies of Identity, and Experience Among Schizophrenics

The Concept of Therapeutic "Emplotment"

Myths/Histories/Lives

The State Construction of Affect: Political Ethos and Mental Health Among Salvadoran Refugees

Struggling Along: The Possibilities for Experience Among the Homeless Mentally Ill

Governmentalities and Biological Citizenship

Introduction

Dreaming of Psychiatric Citizenship: A Case Study of Supermax Confinement

Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations

Human Pharmakon: Symptoms, Technologies, Subjectivities

The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed

Where Ethics and Politics Meet: The Violence of Humanitarianism in France

The Biotechnical Embrace

Introduction

The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients

Where It Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation

"Robin Hood" of Techno-Turkey or Organ Trafficking in the State of Ethical Beings

Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions

AIDS in 2006: Moving toward One World, One Hope?

Biosciences, Biotechnologies

Introduction

Dr. Judah Folkman's Decalogue and Network Analysis

Beyond Nature and Culture: Modes of Reasoning in the Age of Molecular Biology and Medicine

Immortality, In Vitro: A History of the HeLa Cell Line

A Digital Image of the Category of the Person

Experimental Values: Indian Clinical Trials and Surplus Health

Global Health, Global Medicine

Introduction

Medical Anthropology and International Health Planning

Anthropology and Global Health

Mot Luuk Problems in Northeast Thailand: Why Women's Own Health Concerns Matter as Much as Disease Rates

The New Malaise: Medical Ethics and Social Rights in the Global Era

Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life

Postcolonial Disorders

Introduction

Amuk in Java: Madness and Violence in Indonesian Politics

The Political Economy of "Trauma" in Haiti in the Democratic Era of Insecurity

Contract of Mutual (In)Difference: Governance and the Humanitarian Apparatus in Contemporary Albania and Kosovo

Darfur through a Shoah Lens: Sudanese Asylum Seekers, Unruly Biopolitical Dramas, and the Politics of Humanitarian Compassion in Israel

The Elegiac Addict: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject

Index

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