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An anthropology of biomedicine
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An anthropology of biomedicine / by Margaret Lock, McGill University, Vinh-Kim Nguyen, University of Montreal.
ISBN
9781119069140
1119069149
9781119069157
1119069157
9781119069133 (paper)
1119069130
Edition
Second Edition.
Publication
Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley Blackwell, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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"Edition History: Margaret Lock and Vinh-Kim Nguyen (1e, 2010) published by Blackwell Ltd."--T.p. verso.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
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Print version: Lock, Margaret M., author. Anthropology of biomedicine Second Edition. Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2018
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Language
English
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March 11, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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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