Introduction: from documenting medical pluralism to critical interpretations of globalized health knowledge, policies, and practices -- Governing bodies in new order Indonesia -- Too bold, too hot: crossing "culture" in AIDS prevention in Nepal -- The social relations of therapy management -- Making sense out of modernity -- A return to scientific racism in medical social sciences: the case of sexuality and the AIDS epidemic in Africa -- "We five, our twenty-five": myths of population out of control in contemporary India -- Establishing proof: translating "science" and the state in Tibetan medicine -- Notes on the evolution of evolutionary psychiatry -- Utopias of health, eugenics, and germline engineering -- Killing, and healing revisited: on cultural difference, warfare, and sacrifice.
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Routledge Harwood anthropology Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health ; v. 8
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