A reader in medical anthropology : theoretical trajectories, emergent realities

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Good, Byron J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, U. K. ; Malden, Massachusetts : Wiley-Blackwell , c2010
Series:Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology 14
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 1. Antecedents -- 2. Illness and narrative, body and experience -- 3. Governmentalities and biological citizenship -- 4. The biotechnical embrace -- 5. Biosciences, biotechnologies -- 6. Global health, global medicine -- 7. Postcolonial disorders 
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