An Anthropology of Biomedicine
by Margaret Lock, Vinh-Kim Nguyen
2nd Edition
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781119069133 |
| eText ISBN | 9781119069157 |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Publishing Year | 2018 |
| Edition | 2nd Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 560 |
An Anthropology of Biomedicine, 2nd Edition, is a textbook that introduces biomedicine through an anthropological perspective, exploring how material bodies are entangled with history, environment, culture, and politics. Drawing on historical and ethnographic work, it challenges the biological sciences' assumption of a universal human body that can be uniformly standardized.
The volume examines how the application of biomedical technologies drives societal transformations linked to socioeconomic inequalities and ethical disputes, treating the body in health and illness as a malleable entity rather than an ontological given.
Winner of the 2010 Prose Award for Archaeology and Anthropology, this edition provides instructional support for students of anthropology, medical anthropology, and public and global health.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Biomedical Technologies in Practice
Chapter 2: The Normal Body
Chapter 3: Anthropologies of Medicine
Chapter 4: Colonial Disease and Biological Commensurability
Chapter 5: Grounds for Comparison: Biology and Human Experiments
Chapter 6: The Right Population
Chapter 7: Who Owns the Body?
Chapter 8: The Social Life of Human Organs
Chapter 9: Making Kinship: Infertility and Assisted Reproduction
Chapter 10: The Sociotechnical Self
Chapter 11: Genes as Embodied Risk
Chapter 12: Global Health
Chapter 13: From Local to Situated Biologies
Chapter 14: Of Microbes and Humans
Chapter 15: Genomics, Epigenomics and Uncertain Futures
Chapter 16: Molecularizing Racial Difference
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