Overview

Biosocial Worlds offers state-of-the-art contributions to anthropological reflections on the porous boundaries between human and nonhuman life—the biosocial worlds. Based on changing understandings of the natural and the social, the book explores what it means to be human in these worlds, even as the division between scientific disciplines has, for more than a century, maintained a separation of the natural and the social. Drawing on examples from Botswana, Denmark, Mexico, the Netherlands, Uganda, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the volume argues against the separation of the biological and the social in the study of human and nonhuman life and seeks to unfold the consequences of their discursive separation with the aim of rethinking “the biosocial”.   Health topics in the book include diabetes, trauma, cancer, HIV, tuberculosis, prevention of neonatal disease, and wider issues of epigenetics. In addition, the book addresses constructions of health and disease in a wide range of environments and engages with analyses of the concept of environment. Anthropological reflection and ethnographic case studies, meanwhile, explore how health and environment are entangled in ways that moves their relation beyond interdependence to one of inseparability.  

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Author:   Jens Seeberg ,  Andreas Roepstorff ,  Lotte Meinert
Publisher:   UCL Press
Imprint:   UCL Press
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781787358249

ISBN 10:   1787358240
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   29 September 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Biosocial Worlds Jens Seeberg, Andreas Roepstorff and Lotte Meinert  1. Permeable Bodies and Environmental Delineation Margaret Lock 2. Situating Biologies. Studying Differentiation as Material-Semiotic Practice Jörg Niewöhner 3. Pig-Human Relations in Neonatology: Knowing and Unknowing in a Multi-Species Collaborative Mette N. Svendsen 4. Anthropology’s End to Biodeterminism: A New Sociobiology A. David Napier 5. Tribes Without Rulers: Bacteria Life In The Human Holobiont Allan Young 6.  Biosocial Dynamics of Multi-Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: a Bacterial Perspective Jens Seeberg 7. When Sickness Comes in Multiples: Co-morbidity in Botswana Julie Livingston 8. Legacies of Violence: The Communicability of Spirits and Trauma in Northern Uganda Lotte Meinert and Susan Reynolds Whyte: 9. What Is a Horizon? Extinction and Time amid Climate Change Adriana Petryna Afterword: Getting Closer? Anna Tsing Index  

Reviews

'Biosocial Worlds is an excellent contribution to understanding health environments and a conversation-starter about the increasingly apparent biosocial realities created within health environments.' American Journal of Biological Anthropology 'Of particular relevance to AMR research is Jens Seeberg's chapter on the biosocial dynamics of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in India, from a bacterial perspective. He explores the failure of Directly Observed Therapy (DOTs) in terms of interrupted exposure (or contamination) of bacteria to TB treatment, rather than standard public health explanations of inappropriate protocols and, defaulting and non-compliance. Through this analysis, he moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour, to highlight the political economy of health systems and treatments, and their contribution to the development of drug resistance.' Antimicrobials in Society (AMIS) Hub, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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Jens Seeberg, Andreas Roepstorff, and Lotte Meinert are all professors of anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark.  

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