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Author:   Marcia C. Inhorn ,  Emily A. Wentzell
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780822352709

ISBN 10:   0822352702
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   19 July 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections / Marcia C. Inhorn and Emily A. Wentzell 1 Part I. Histories 1. Grafting Together Medical Anthropology, Feminism, and Technoscience / Emily Martin 23 2. Getting at Anthropology through Medical History: Notes on the Consumption of Chinese Embryos and Fetuses in the Western Imagination / Lynn M. Morgan 41 3. Making Peasants Protestant and Other Projects: Medical Anthropology and Its Global Condition / Lawrence Cohen 65 Part II. Queries 4. That Obscure Object of Global Health / Didier Fassin 95 5. Medical Anthropology and Mental Health: Five Questions for the Next Fifty Years / Arthur Kleinman 116 6. From Genetics to Postgenomics and the Discovery of the New Social Body / Margaret Lock 129 Part III. Activisms 7. Anthropology and the Study of Disability Worlds / Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg 163 8. Medical Anthropology and Public Policy: Using Research to Change the World from What It Is to What We Believe it Should Be / Merrill Singer 183 9. Critical Intersections and Engagements: Gender, Sexuality, Health, and Rights in Medical Anthropology / Richard Parker 206 Notes 239 References 251 Contributors 307 Index 313

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Imagining the future of medical anthropology, this collection vigorously conveys theoretical roots and engaged social activisms committed to equity, rights, sociopolitical change, in mental health and humanitarianism; feminist projects on technoscience and reproduction; HIV and sexuality; social bodies, global health, and local biologies. --Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, coeditor of A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities

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Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University. She is past president of the Society for Medical Anthropology and the author, most recently, of The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East. Emily A. Wentzell is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa.

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