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PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN 139781119069133
ISBN 101119069130
Book DescriptionIn this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of material bodies with history, environment, culture, and politics. Drawing on historical and ethnographic work, the book critiques the assumption made by the biological sciences of a universal human body that can be uniformly standardized. It focuses on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies brings about radical changes to societies at large based on socioeconomic inequalities and ethical disputes, and develops and integrates the theory that the human body in health and illness is not an ontological given but a moveable, malleable entity. This second edition includes new chapters on: microbiology and the microbiome; global health; and, the self as a socio-technical system. In addition, all chapters have been comprehensively revised to take account of developments from within this fast-paced field, in the intervening years between publications. References and figures have also been updated throughout. This highly-regarded and award-winning textbook (Winner of the 2010 Prose Award for Archaeology and Anthropology) retains the character and features of the previous edition. Its coverage remains broad, including discussion of: biomedical technologies in practice; anthropologies of medicine; biology and human experiments; infertility and assisted reproduction; genomics, epigenomics, and uncertain futures; and molecularizing racial difference, ensuring it remains the essential text for students of anthropology, medical anthropology as well as public and global health.
About the AuthorMargaret Lock is professor emerita at mcgill university, montreal, canada, dept. Of social studies of medicine and dept. Of anthropology. She is a fellow of the royal society of canada, officier de l'ordre national du qu bec, officer of the order of canada, and an elected member of the american academy of arts and sciences. Author and/or co-editor of 18 books and over 220 articles, lock is a medical anthropologist whose work focuses on embodiment, comparative epistemologies of medical knowledge, and the global impact of biomedical technologies. Vinh-kim nguyen is professor at the graduate institute of international and development studies in geneva, switzerland and at the university of montreal, canada. He is also chair of anthropology and global health at the coll ge d' tudes mondiales in paris. He is a medical anthropologist and practicing physician who practices in infectious diseases and emergency care and has worked on the frontlines of global health efforts particularly in west africa since 1994.
LanguageEnglish
AuthorMargaret Lock, Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Edition Number2
Publication Date20 Mar 2018
Number of Pages560
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