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New horizons in medical anthropology : essays in honour of Charles Leslie
- Title
- New horizons in medical anthropology : essays in honour of Charles Leslie / edited by Mark Nichter and Margaret Lock.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
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- Description
- xii, 312 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Routledge Harwood anthropology
- Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health ; v. 8
- Uniform Title
- Routledge Harwood anthropology.
- Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health ; v. 8.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Festschrift.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: from documenting medical pluralism to critical interpretations of globalized health knowledge, policies, and practices -- Governing bodies in new order Indonesia -- Too bold, too hot: crossing "culture" in AIDS prevention in Nepal -- The social relations of therapy management -- Making sense out of modernity -- A return to scientific racism in medical social sciences: the case of sexuality and the AIDS epidemic in Africa -- "We five, our twenty-five": myths of population out of control in contemporary India -- Establishing proof: translating "science" and the state in Tibetan medicine -- Notes on the evolution of evolutionary psychiatry -- Utopias of health, eugenics, and germline engineering -- Killing, and healing revisited: on cultural difference, warfare, and sacrifice.
- ISBN
- 0415277930 (HB)
- 0415278066 (PB)
- LCCN
- 2002069909
- OCLC
- ocm49860382
- SCSB-4813424
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries