TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lock,Margaret M.
AU  - Nguyen,Vinh-Kim
TI  - An anthropology of biomedicine 
SN  - 9781119069133 (paper)
U1  - 306.461 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New Jersy
PB  - Wiley Blackwell
KW  - Medical anthropology
KW  - Public health
KW  - Human body
N1  - "Edition History: Margaret Lock and Vinh-Kim Nguyen (1e, 2010) published by Blackwell Ltd."--T.p. verso
N2  - An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician and medical anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen develop and integrate the thesis that the human body in health and illness is the elusive product of nature and culture that refuses to be pinned down.

    Introduces biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of material bodies with history, environment, culture, and politics
    Develops and integrates an original theory: that the human body in health and illness is not an ontological given but a moveable, malleable entity
    Makes extensive use of historical and contemporary ethnographic materials around the globe to illustrate the importance of this methodological approach
    Integrates key new research data with more classical material, covering the management of epidemics, famines, fertility and birth, by military doctors from colonial times on
    Uses numerous case studies to illustrate concepts such as the global commodification of human bodies and body parts, modern forms of population, and the extension of biomedical technologies into domestic and intimate domains
    Winner of the 2010 Prose Award for Archaeology and Anthropology

ER  -