โ Scribed by Margaret Lock, Mark Nichter
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
New Horizons in Medical Anthropology is a festschrift in honor of Charles Leslie whose influential career helped shape this subfield of anthropology. This collection of cutting-edge essays explores medical innovation and medical pluralism at the turn of the 21st century. The book accomplishes two things: it reflects recent research by medical anthropologists working in Asia who have been inspired by Charles Leslie's writing on such topics as medical pluralism and the early emergence of what has become a globalized biomedicine, the social relations of therapy management, and the relationship between the politics of the state and discourse about the health of populations, illness, and medicine. The book also takes up lesser known aspects of Leslie's work: his contribution as an editor and the role he played in carrying the field forward; his ethics as a medical anthropologist committed to humanism and sensitive to racism and eugenics; and the passion he inspired in his co-workers and students. Charles Leslie is a remarkable and influential social scientist. New Horizons in Medical Anthropology is a fitting tribute to a sensitive scholar whose theories and codes of practice provide an essential guide to future generations of medical anthropologists.
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Introduction: From documenting medical pluralism to critical interpretations of globalized health knowledge, policies, and practices......Page 18
Governing bodies in New Order Indonesia......Page 52
Too bold, too hot: Crossing ~culture~ in AIDS prevention in Nepal......Page 75
The social relations of therapy management......Page 98
Making sense out of modernity......Page 128
A return to scientific racism in medical social sciences: The case of sexuality and the AIDS epidemic in Africa......Page 158
~We five, our twenty-five~: Myths of population out of control in contemporary India......Page 189
Establishing proof: Translating ~science~ and the state in Tibetan medicine......Page 217
Notes on the evolution of evolutionary psychiatry......Page 238
Utopias of health, eugenics, and germline engineering......Page 256
Killing and healing revisited: On cultural difference, warfare, and sacrifice......Page 284
Charles Leslie's Publications......Page 314
Index......Page 318
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