Edited presentations from a Society for Medical Anthropology conference at Yale University, Sept. 24-27, 2009, titled Medical anthropology at the intersections: celebrating fifty years of interdisciplinarity. Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-306) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : medical anthropology at the intersections / Marcia C. Inhorn and Emily A. Wentzell -- Grafting together medical anthropology, feminism and technoscience / Emily Martin -- Getting at anthropology through medical history : notes on the consumption of Chinese embryos and fetuses in the Western imagination / Lynn M. Morgan -- Making peasants Protestant, and other projects : medical anthropology and its global condition / Lawrence Cohen -- That obscure object of global health / Didier Fassin -- Medical anthropology and mental health : five questions for the next fifty years / Arthur Kleinman -- From genetics to postgenomics and the discovery of the new social body / Margaret Lock -- Anthropology and the study of disability worlds / Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg -- Medical anthropology and public policy : using research to change the world from what it is to what we believe it should be / Merrill Singer -- Critical intersections and engagements : gender, sexuality, health, and rights in medical anthropology / Richard Parker.
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