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An Anthropology of Biomedicine

Tekijä(t)

Lock, Margaret
Nguyen, Vinh-Kim

Julkaisija

John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Julkaisuvuosi

2009

Kieli

Painos

Julkaisijan yksikkö

Wiley-Blackwell

Sivumäärä

448 sivua

Luokka

Kulttuuri-

Hinta

96,70 €

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An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician and medical anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen develop and integrate the thesis that the human body in health and illness is the elusive product of nature and culture that refuses to be pinned down.

Introduces biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of material bodies with history, environment, culture, and politics
Develops and integrates an original theory: that the human body in health and illness is not an ontological given but a moveable, malleable entity
Makes extensive use of historical and contemporary ethnographic materials around the globe to illustrate the importance of their theoretical approach
Integrates key new research data with more classical material, covering the management of epidemics, famines, and fertility and birth, by military doctors from colonial times on
Uses numerous case studies to illustrate concepts such as the global commodification of human bodies and body parts, modern forms of population, and the extension of biomedical technologies into domestic and intimate domains

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