Medical anthropology at the intersections: histories, activisms and futures

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Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections / Marcia C. Inhorn and Emily A. Wentzell 1 Part I. Histories 1. Grafting Together Medical Anthropology, Feminism, and Technoscience / Emily Martin 23 2. Getting at Anthropology through Medical History: Notes on the Consumption of Chinese Embryos and Fetuses in the Western Imagination / Lynn M. Morgan 41 3. Making Peasants Protestant and Other Projects: Medical Anthropology and Its Global Condition / Lawrence Cohen 65 Part II. Queries 4. That Obscure Object of Global Health / Didier Fassin 95 5. Medical Anthropology and Mental Health: Five Questions for the Next Fifty Years / Arthur Kleinman 116 6. From Genetics to Postgenomics and the Discovery of the New Social Body / Margaret Lock 129 Part III. Activisms 7. Anthropology and the Study of Disability Worlds / Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg 163 8. Medical Anthropology and Public Policy: Using Research to Change the World from What It Is to What We Believe it Should Be / Merrill Singer 183 9. Critical Intersections and Engagements: Gender, Sexuality, Health, and Rights in Medical Anthropology / Richard Parker 206 Notes 239 References 251 Contributors 307 Index 313