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1 online resource (251 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; About the contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: a genealogy of medical materialities; Part I Flesh and fluids; 2 Of flesh and mesh: time, materiality, and health in surgical recovery; 3 From attitudes to materialities: understanding bowel control for colorectal cancer patients in London; 4 The life course of labia: female genital cutting in Somaliland; 5 On 'being the problem': the ontological choreography of the infertile male; Part II Infrastructures of care; 6 Blood, lungs, and passports |
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7 'Time for tea': tea practices and care in a British hospice8 'Regenerative medicine event': cells, soybeans, and a repurposing of ritual in Japan; 9 The form that flattens; Part III Health publics; 10 On becoming a vegetable: life, nature, and healing for a hylozoic cult; 11 Making the body local: the suburban shitizen; 12 Of smoke and unguents: health affordances of sacred materiality; 13 How photographs 'empower' bodies to act differently; Part IV Responses; Response: medical materialities, (post)genomics, and the biosocial; Response: medical materialities, collections, and artefacts |
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Index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Medical anthropology -- United States
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Medical anthropology
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carroll, Timothy
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| ISBN |
9780429853678 |
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042985367X |
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