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Arc of Interference: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography

Editat de João Biehl
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 mar 2023
Arc of Interference revisits the vital and core insights of medical anthropology in light of contemporary planetary and social crises, showing how the field provides central practices for understanding, interfering in, and refashioning a world full of mounting dilemmas.
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ISBN-13: 9781478017097
ISBN-10: 1478017090
Pagini: 408
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Editura: Duke University Press
Seria Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography


Cuprins

Foreword. Against the Grain: Medical Anthropology in the Anthropocene / Paul Farmer  xi
Introduction. Art of Interference / João Biehl and Vincanne Adams  1
Part I. Traversing Imperiled Worlds and Envisaging Human Futures
1. Death by Fire: The Problem of Moral Certainty in China’s Tibet / Vincanne Adams  23
2. Bringing Up the Bodies: Erasing and Caring for Mexicans in the Mexico-US Borderland / Davíd Carrasco  42
3. In the Vast Abrupt: Horizon Work in an Age of Runaway Climate Change / Adriana Petryna  65
Part II. The Category Fallacy and Care Amid the Experts
4. Justifying a Lower Standard of Health Care for the World’s Poor: A Call of Decolonizing Global Health / Salmaan Keshavjee  91
5. The Moral Economies of Heart Disease and Cardiac Care in India / David S. Jones  112
6. Intimate and Social Spheres of Mental Illness / Janis H. Jenkins  133
Part III. Worlds of Biotechnological Promise and the Plasticity of Self and Power
7. A Good Death: The Promise and Threat of Biometric Inclusion for Transgender Women in India / Lawrence Cohen  161
8. Medical Cosmopolitanism in Moral Worlds: Aspirations and Stratifications in Global Quests for Conception / Marcia C. Inhorn  187
9. Environments and Mutable Selves / Margaret Lock  210
Part IV. Tracing Arts of Living (Or, Anthropologies After Hope Has Departed)
10. Anthropology in a Mode of Dying / Robert Desjarlais  239
11. Ethnographic Open / João Biehl  257
12. Thinking on Borrowed Time . . . About Privileging the Human / Jean Comaroff  287
Afterword. Lessons Learned from the Ethnography of Care / Arthur Kleinman  305
In Memoriam  327
Acknowledgments  329
Bibliography  331
Contributors  371
Index  373