Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century

Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Junko Kitanaka, Eugene Raikhel (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

238 Seiten

2026
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-4589-3 (ISBN)

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Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, methodologies, and theories in the discipline, drawing on contributions from leading anthropologists around the world. As a discipline, medical anthropology provides situational analysis of health, disease, and disability to show how the experiences of medical experts, patients, and their broader communities are informed by their social and cultural contexts. Adopting a keywords-driven approach, Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with an introduction to the concepts and approaches that have animated medical anthropology over the course of the twentieth century. Authors put these keywords into dialogue with their ethnographic and archival research to demonstrate how these concepts can be expanded to address contemporary phenomena related to health, disease, and disability. Mapping Medical for the Twenty-First Century provides newcomers to medical anthropology with a robust introduction to the discipline, while providing experienced readers a set of chapters that explore the discipline in novel and exciting ways.

Introduction: Topographies of Medicine: Bodies, Institutions, and Infrastructures
Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Junko Kitanaka, and Eugene Raikhel, eds.
Part I: Medicine’s Infrastructures
Section Introduction: Medicine and Everyday Life: Transformations of the Life-course Through Biomedical Encounters
Junto Kitanaka
Chapter 1: Sickness, Illness, Body Politic, Planetary Health
Emily Yates-Doerr
Chapter 2:Disability, Development, Potentiality, Personhood
Chris Sargent & Michele Friedner
Chapter 3: Acute, Chronic, Suffering, Cure
Ayo Wahlberg
Chapter 4: Diagnosis, Symptom, Treatment, Care
Todd Meyers
Chapter 5: Hospital, Clinic, Expertise, Education
Harris Solomon
Part II: Medicine's Bodies
Section Introduction: Making and Manipulating Bodies
Eugene Raikhel
Chapter 6: Mental, Somatic, Neuro-
Jocelyn Lim Chua
Chapter 7: Genes, Race, Nature, Phenotype
Duana Fullwiley
Chapter 8: Drugs, Embodiment, Harm, Pleasure
Gideon Lasko
Chapter 9: Health, Value, Technology, Prosthetic, Pharmaceutical
Stefan Ecks
Part III: Medicine's Institutions
Section Introduction: Institutional Narratives of Medicine
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
Chapter 10: The State, Colonialism, Humanitarianism
Michelle Pentecost
Chapter 11: Laboratories, Experiments, Clinical Trials
Denielle Elliott
Chapter 12: Environment, Tropical Disease, Structural Inequality, Public Health
T.S. Harvey
Chapter 13: Precarity, Exposure, Toxicity, Evidence
Paul Wenzel Geissler, Peter Mangesho, Caroline Meier Zu Biesen, Ruth Prince, Lulu Tessua, Anitha Tingira
Chapter 14: Governance, Law, Policy, Activism
Mara Buchbinder
Notes on Contributors
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.4.2026
Co-Autor	Mara Buchbinder, Jocelyn Lim Chua
Zusatzinfo	2 B-W images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-4589-8 / 1978845898
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-4589-3 / 9781978845893
Zustand	Neuware