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by: Good, Byron J.; Fischer, Michael M. J.; Willen, Sarah S.; DelVecchio Good, Mary-Jo

ISBN: 9781405183147 | 1405183144

Medical anthropology has long been a critical field of anthropological understandings. At the heart of human cultures are the practical issues of illness and healing; philosophical issues of the body, mind, culture, and society-as well as rationality, perception, and experience; and moral issues of suffering, the "good life" (and death), and the political economy of health and suffering. All of these issues are of vital concern to medical anthropologists. Medical Anthropology: A Reader, edited by an outstanding team of medical anthropologists, ... MOREis collection of some of the finest work that has been published in this central area of anthropology and is organized to provide an instrumental teaching tool. The editors have written an extensive introduction that traces the development of the field and each section of the volume includes a brief introductory statement and a list of recommended readings on the main topics discussed in the chapters. As powerful changes have come about over the past several decades-including the recent announcement of the mapping of the human genome, developments in molecular biology, new medical technologies, new forms of clinical experimental research, as well as the transformation of biological research-so has the study of medical anthropology changed dramatically. Moreover, the entry of anthropologists into the relatively new field of science and technology studies has provided a new frontier of growth. Medical Anthropology: A Reader is unprecedented in that it introduces students to these new interfaces and integrates them with the older and more established methods of medical anthropology.

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A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities brings together exemplary articles on the key theoretical approaches in the field of medical anthropology and related science and technology studies. The editors' comprehensive introductions evaluate the historical lineages of this research and its value in addressing critical problems associated with contemporary forms of illness experience. Presents a key selection of both classic and new agenda-setting articles in medical anthropology Provides analytic and historical contextual introductions by leading figures in medical anthropology, medical sociology, and science and technology studies Demonstrates and examines the contribution of medical anthropology to a new global health movement aimed at reshaping international health agendas

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bull; Presents a key collection of both classic and new agenda-setting articles in this central area of anthropology bull; Provides analytic and historical contextual introductions by leading figures in medical anthropology, medical sociology, science studies, social theory and general anthropology .

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 and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Lecturer in 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 NIMH 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 is Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and in the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.