An Anthropology of Biomedicine (eBook)
560 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-06915-7 (ISBN)
This second edition includes new chapters on: microbiology and the microbiome; global health; and, the self as a socio-technical system. In addition, all chapters have been comprehensively revised to take account of developments from within this fast-paced field, in the intervening years between publications. References and figures have also been updated throughout.
This highly-regarded and award-winning textbook (Winner of the 2010 Prose Award for Archaeology and Anthropology) retains the character and features of the previous edition. Its coverage remains broad, including discussion of: biomedical technologies in practice; anthropologies of medicine; biology and human experiments; infertility and assisted reproduction; genomics, epigenomics, and uncertain futures; and molecularizing racial difference, ensuring it remains the essential text for students of anthropology, medical anthropology as well as public and global health.
MARGARET LOCK is Professor Emerita at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Dept. of Social Studies of Medicine and Dept. of Anthropology. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Officier de L'Ordre national du Québec, Officer of the Order of Canada, and an elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Author and/or co-editor of 18 books and over 220 articles, Lock is a medical anthropologist whose work focuses on embodiment, comparative epistemologies of medical knowledge, and the global impact of biomedical technologies. VINH-KIM NGUYEN is Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland and at the University of Montreal, Canada. He is also Chair of Anthropology and Global Health at the Collège d'Études mondiales in Paris. He is a medical anthropologist and practicing physician who practices in infectious diseases and emergency care and has worked on the frontlines of global health efforts particularly in West Africa since 1994.
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1
The Argument 1
Interwoven Themes 2
Improving Global Health: The Challenge 4
Biomedicine as Technology 5
Does Culture Exist? 7
A word About Ethnography 10
Section 1
1 Biomedical Technologies in Practice 15
2 The Normal Body 29
3 Anthropologies of Medicine 51
Section 2
4 Colonial Disease and Biological Commensurability 79
5 Grounds for Comparison: Biology and Human Experiments 103
6 The Right Population 127
Section 3
7 Who Owns the Body? 161
8 The Social Life of Human Organs 185
9 Making Kinship: Infertility and Assisted Reproduction 213
Section 4
10 The Sociotechnical Self 241
11 Genes as Embodied Risk 265
12 Global Health 291
Section 5
13 From Local to Situated Biologies 313
14 Of Microbes and Humans 335
15 Genomics, Epigenomics and Uncertain Futures 349
16 Molecularizing Racial Difference 371
Epilogue 385
Notes 389
Bibliography 467
Index 529
"The strength of this re-edited volume is that its analysis and criticism of biomedical practice can be transferred to comparable (and contemporary) negotiations over space and time." - Curare - Journal for Medical Anthropology, VOL 44 (2021) 1-4
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.1.2018 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Orthopädie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
Technik ► Medizintechnik | |
Schlagworte | Anthropologie • Anthropology • Biological Anthropology • Biologische Anthropologie • Medical Anthropology • Medizinische Anthropologie • Social & Cultural Anthropology • Soziale u. kulturelle Anthropologie |
ISBN-10 | 1-119-06915-7 / 1119069157 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-119-06915-7 / 9781119069157 |
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