| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 241 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: Margaret Lock and medical anthropology -- 1. A genealogy of bodily practices in post-Soviet Cuba -- 2. Therapeutic modernism: medical pluralism, local biologies, and HIV in Côte d'Ivoire -- 3. Rational sex at the margins of the state: sex work, violence, and HIV prevention in Papua, Indonesia -- 4. The gendering of depression in Japan -- 5. From spasmophilia to social phobia: conversions of French anxiety |
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6 . Unconventional psychiatric medico-politicization: the making and unmaking of behavioural disorders in Pelotas, Brazil -- 7. Cases and narratives in private medical providers' accounts of managing HIV in urban India -- 8. Embodied molecules: negotiating medications in troubled times -- 9. Digital landscapes of health -- Afterword: seeing like an anthropologist -- Selected awards and publications by Margaret Lock -- Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
A collection of essays taking up Margaret Lock's enduring project to question our deeply held assumptions about biology, medicine, and culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed June 25, 2023) |
| Subject |
Lock, Margaret M.
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| SUBJECT |
Lock, Margaret M |
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Lock, Margaret M. fast |
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Medical anthropology.
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Anthropology, Medical
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Medical anthropology
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Ethnomedizin
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Adelson, Naomi, 1958- editor.
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Butt, Leslie, 1960- editor.
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Kielmann, Karina, 1965- editor.
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| LC no. |
2017394514 |
| ISBN |
9780773589070 |
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0773589074 |
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