A reader in medical anthropology: theoretical trajectories, emergent realities

A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities brings together essays that represent the seven key themes that make up todays vibrant field of medical anthropology: the theoretical legacy; phenomenologies of illness and narrative, body and experience; biological citizenship; thebiotechnical embrace; the new medical biosciences; global health and medicine; and postcolonial power relations and humanitarian challenges of the contemporary world. In their introductions, the editors argue that on the one hand emergent realities challenge medical anthropology to change many of its practicesand theories; on the other hand, a vital set of theoretical traditions provide comparative moral compasses for current health dilemmas. In this ground-breaking new reader, the contributors demonstrate how medical anthropology is on the cutting edge of new integrative work in anthropology, global health, and the life sciences.Byron J. Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology, Depart­ment of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Professor in the Department of Anthropol­ogy, Harvard University. Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science andTechnology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Lecturerin the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Sarah S. Willen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. She has been an NIMN Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and has taught in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good isProfessor of Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and in the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

• ISBN: 978-1-4051-8315-4
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 576
• Fecha Publicación: 16/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés