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1 online resource |
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Machine generated contents note: Argument -- Interwoven Themes -- Improving Global Health: The Challenge -- Biomedicine as Technology -- Does Culture Exist? -- word About Ethnography -- 1. Biomedical Technologies in Practice -- Technological Mastery of the Natural World and Human Development -- Technology and Boundary Crossings -- Biomedicine as Technology: Some Implications -- Technologies of Bodily Governance -- Technologies of the Self -- Power of Biological Reductionism -- Techno/Biologicals -- 2. Normal Body -- Cholera in the Nineteenth Century -- Representing the Natural Order -- Truth to Nature -- Natural Body -- Numerical Approach -- Other Natures -- Interpreting the Body -- How Normal Became Possible -- When Normal Does not Exist -- Problems with Assessing Normal -- Pathologizing the 'Normal' -- Limitations to Biomedical 'Objectivity' -- Better than Well? -- 3. Anthropologies of Medicine -- Body Social -- Contextualizing Medical Knowledge -- Medical Pluralism -- Modernization of Traditional' Medicine -- Medical Hybridization -- Biodiversity and Indigenous Medical Knowledge -- Self-medication -- Short History of Medicalization -- Opposition to Medicalization -- Social Construction of Illness and Disease and Beyond -- Politics of Medicalization -- Beyond Medicalization? -- In Pursuit of Health -- In Summary -- 4. Colonial Disease and Biological Commensurability -- Anthropological Perspective on Global Biomedicine -- Biomedicine as a Tool of Empire -- Acclimatization and Racial Difference -- Colonial Epidemics: Microbial Theories Prove their Worth -- Fear of Biomedicine -- Microbiology as a Global Standard -- Infertility and Childbirth as Critical Events -- Birthing in the Belgian Congo -- Global Practice of Fertility Control -- Intimate Colonialism: The Biomedicalization of Domesticity -- Biomedicine, Evangelism and Consciousness -- Biological Standardization of Hunger -- Colonial Discovery of Malnutrition -- Albumin as Surplus -- Biologization of Salvation -- In Summary -- 5. Grounds for Comparison: Biology and Human Experiments -- Laboratory as the Site of Comparison -- Colonial Laboratory -- Experimental Bodies -- Rise of the Clinical Trial -- Taming Chance -- Alchemy of the Randomized Controlled Trial -- Problem of Generalizability -- Medical Standardization and Contested Evidence -- Anthropological Perspectives on Clinical Trials: The West African Ebola Epidemic -- 'Jiki': A Clinical Trial Amidst the Ebola Epidemic -- Context of the Clinical Trial -- Globalizing Clinical Research -- What Should Count as Evidence? -- Economies of Blood -- Experimental Communities: Social Relations -- In Summary -- 6. Right Population -- Origins of Population as a Problem -- Addressing the Problem' of Population -- Improving the Stock of Nations -- Contraceptive Technologies and Family Planning -- Indian Family Planning -- meeting Quotas -- Increasing Fertility with Contraceptive Use -- One-child Policy -- Biomedical Technology and Sex Selection -- Contextualizing Sex Selection: India and 'Family Balancing' -- Contextualizing Sex Selection: Disappeared Girls in China -- Sex Selection in a Global Context -- Ghost Children, Little Emperors, Burgeoning Elders -- Reproducing Nationalism -- In Summary -- 7. Who Owns the Body? -- Commodification of Human Biological Material -- Objects of Worth and their Alienation -- Wealth of Inalienable Goods -- Bioeconomy of Human Biological Materials -- Who Owns the Body? -- Gifting Life -- Commodification of Eggs and Sperm -- Medical Tourism -- Immortalized Cell Lines -- Exotic Other -- Biological Databases -- Concluding Comments -- 8. Social Life of Human Organs -- Bioavailability -- Who Becomes a Donor? -- Biopolitics of Organ Transplants -- Shortage of Organs -- Inventing a New Death -- Good-as-dead -- Struggling for National Consensus -- Rapacious Need for Organs -- Social Life of Human Organs -- When Resources are in Short Supply -- Liminal Lives -- Does the Body Belong to God? -- Altruism, Entitlement and Commodification -- 9. Making Kinship: Infertility and Assisted Reproduction -- Assisted Reproductive Technologies -- Problematizing Infertility Figures -- From Underfertility to Overfertility -- Reproducing Culture -- Assisted Reproduction in the United States -- Assisted Reproduction in Egypt -- Assisted Reproduction in Israel -- ART and the Reproduction of Normalcy -- Global Hubs of Conception -- 10. Sociotechnical Self -- Biological Boundary Between Self and Other -- Sociotechnical Self -- Technologies of the Self -- Technologies of the Self in Biomedicine -- Unconscious as Technology of the Self -- Discovery of an Unconscious Self -- Unlocking the Pathogenic Secret -- Pathogenic Secret as a Mode of Subjection -- Making of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- Practitioner-self -- Producing the Self Through Talking Technologies: Technologies of Health Promotion -- Technologies of Empowerment -- Technologies of Self-help -- Confessional Technologies -- Globalization of the Unconscious -- Beyond Freud to the Neurosciences -- Psychiatric Self -- Psychopharmaceuticals -- Addiction and the Lie -- Conclusion -- 11. Genes as Embodied Risk -- From Hazard to Embodied Risk -- From Generation to Rewriting Life -- Genomic Hype -- Geneticization -- Genetic Testing and Human Contingency -- Genetic Citizenship and Future Promise in America -- Biosociality and the Affiliation of Genes -- Community-based Participatory Research -- Genetic Information and Hybrid Causality -- Genetic Testing in the Era of Personalized Medicine -- Genetic Screening -- Screening as a Collective Endeavour -- Race and Genetic Testing -- Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis -- Is a Neo-Eugenics Looming on the Horizon? -- 12. Global Health -- What is Global Health, and How is it Different from International Health? -- Metrics and the Global Clinic -- Botswana's Cancer Ward -- Leukaemia in the Indian Ocean -- Value in Global Health: A Global Market for Diagnostics and Drugs -- When Markets don't Work -- Medical Humanitarianism and Philanthrocapitalism' -- Regimes of Anticipation in Global Health: Epidemics Fast and Slow -- Anthropology of Preparedness -- Politics of Anticipation -- Conclusion -- 13. From Local to Situated Biologies -- End of Menstruation -- Local Biologies -- Kuru and Endocannibalism -- Racism and Birth Weight -- Agent Orange and Foetal Abnormalities in Vietnam -- Abundance of Local Biologies -- Local Biology and the Erosion of Universal Bodies -- Rethinking Biology in the Midst of Life's Complexity -- Is Biology Real? -- In Summary -- 14. Of Microbes and Humans -- Microbial Arms Race -- Warfare and Iraqibacter -- Debates About the Origin of HIV -- From Versus to Commensals: Microbiomes and Metagenomes -- Human Ecosystem -- 15. Genomics, Epigenomics and Uncertain Futures -- Divining the Contemporary -- Amassing and Systematizing DNA -- APOE Gene and Alzheimer's Disease -- Genetic Testing for Late-onset Alzheimer's Disease -- Interpretations of Risk Estimates -- Dethroning the Gene? -- Eclipse of the Genotype phenotypeDogma -- Does a Programme for Life Exist? -- Learning (Again) to Live with Uncertainty -- Epigenetics: Overtaking Genetic Determinism -- From Epigenesis to Epigenetics -- Molecular Epigenetics and the Reactive Genome -- Miniaturization of the Environment -- Embedded Bodies -- Epigenetics and the Womb -- Food as Environment -- Social Deprivation -- Ageing and Epigenetics -- From Causality to Contingency -- 16. Molecularizing Racial Difference -- Molecular Biology and Racial Politics -- Molecularization of Race -- Bioethnic Conscription -- Racialized Allelic Variation -- Mexican Genomics -- Discordant Genomic Knowledge -- Commodifying 'Race' and Ancestry -- Looping Effects |
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In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of material bodies with history, environment, culture, and politics. Drawing on historical and ethnographic work, the book critiques the assumption made by the biological sciences of a universal human body that can be uniformly standardized. It focuses on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies brings about radical changes to societies at large based on socioeconomic inequalities and ethical disputes, and develops and integrates the theory that the human body in health and illness is not an ontological given but a moveable, malleable entity |
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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 |
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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. --Book Jacket |
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"Edition History: Margaret Lock and Vinh-Kim Nguyen (1e, 2010) published by Blackwell Ltd."--Title page verso |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
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Medical anthropology.
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Public health -- Anthropological aspects.
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Human body -- Social aspects
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Medical anthropology
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Public health -- Anthropological aspects
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Nguyen, Vinh-Kim, author
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| LC no. |
2017034377 |
| ISBN |
9781119069140 |
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1119069149 |
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9781119069157 |
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1119069157 |
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