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Arc of interference : medical anthropology for worlds on edge
Title
Arc of interference : medical anthropology for worlds on edge / João Biehl & Vincanne Adams, editors ; with a foreword by Paul Farmer.
ISBN
1478024372
9781478024378
9781478019800
1478019808
9781478017097
1478017090
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxi, 385 pages) : illustrations.
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Summary
"The radically humanistic essays of Arc of Interference refigure our sense of the real, the ethical, and the political in the face of mounting social and planetary upheavals. Creatively assembled around Arthur Kleinman's medical anthropological arc and eschewing hegemonic modes of intervention, they advance the notion of a care-ful ethnographic praxis of interference. To interfere is to dislodge ideals of naturalness, blast enduring binaries (human-nonhuman, self-other, us-them), and redirect technocratic agendas while summoning relational knowledge and the will to create community. The book's multiple ethnographic arcs of interference provide a vital conceptual toolkit for today's world and a badly needed moral perch to peer toward just horizons. Contributors. Vincanne Adams, João Biehl, Davíd Carrasco, Lawrence Cohen, Jean Comaroff, Robert Desjarlais, Paul Farmer, Marcia Inhorn, Janis H. Jenkins, David S. Jones, Salmaan Keshavjee, Arthur Kleinman, Margaret Lock, Adriana Petryna"-- Provided by publisher.
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e-Duke books scholarly collection 2023. OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: Arc of interference. Durham : Duke University Press, 2023
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 31, 2023
Series
Critical global health
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword: Against the grain: medical anthropology in the Anthropocene / Paul Farmer
Introduction: Arc of interference / João Biehl and Vincanne Adams
Death by fire : the problem of moral certainty in China's Tibet / Vincanne Adams
Bringing up the bodies : erasing and caring for Mexicans in the Mexico-US Borderlands / Davíd Carrasco
In the vast abrupt : horizon work in an age of runaway climate change / Adriana Petryna
Justifying a lower standard of health care for the world's poor : a call for decolonizing global health / Salmaan Keshavjee
The moral economies of heart disease and cardiac care in India / David S. Jones
Intimate and social spheres of mental illness / Janis H. Jenkins
A good death : the promise and threat of biometric inclusion for transgender women in India / Lawrence Cohen
Medical cosmopolitanism in moral worlds : aspirations and stratifications in global quests for conception / Marcia C. Inhorn
Environments and mutable selves / Margaret Lock
Anthropology in a mode of dying / Robert Desjarlais
Ethnographic open / João Biehl
Thinking on borrowed time . . . about privileging the human / Jean Comaroff
Afterword: Lessons learned from the ethnography of care / Arthur Kleinman.
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