Medical Anthropology at the Intersections - Histories, Activisms, and Futures (Paperback)

In this important collection, prominent scholars who helped to establish medical anthropology as an area of study reflect on the field's past, present, and future. In doing so, they demonstrate that medical anthropology has developed dynamically, through its intersections with activism, with other subfields in anthropology, and with disciplines as varied as public health, the biosciences, and studies of race and ethnicity. Each of the contributors addresses one or more of these intersections. Some trace the evolution of medical anthropology in relation to fields including feminist technoscience, medical history, and international and area studies. Other contributors question the assumptions underlying mental health, global public health, and genetics and genomics, areas of inquiry now central to contemporary medical anthropology. Essays on the field's engagements with disability studies, public policy, and gender and sexuality studies illuminate the commitments of many medical anthropologists to public-health and human-rights activism. Essential reading for all those interested in medical anthropology, this collection offers productive insight into the field and its future, as viewed by some of the world's leading medical anthropologists.
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Contributors." Lawrence Cohen, Didier Fassin, Faye Ginsburg, Marcia C. Inhorn, Arthur Kleinman, Margaret Lock, Emily Martin, Lynn M. Morgan, Richard Parker, Rayna Rapp, Merrill Singer, Emily A. Wentzell

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2012
First published:	July 2012
Editors:	Marcia C. Inhorn • Emily A Wentzell
Dimensions:	229 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-0-8223-5270-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Medical anthropology Promotions
LSN:	0-8223-5270-2
Barcode:	9780822352709

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