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
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, U. K. ; Malden, Massachusetts :
Wiley-Blackwell ,
c2010
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| Series: | Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology
14 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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