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New horizons in medical anthropology : essays in honour of Charles Leslie

Author: Charles M Leslie; Mark Nichter; Margaret M Lock
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Series: Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health, v. 8.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Festschrift.
Named Person: Charles M Leslie
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Charles M Leslie; Mark Nichter; Margaret M Lock
ISBN: 0415277930 9780415277938 0415278066 9780415278065
OCLC Number: 49860382
Description: xii, 312 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Series Title: Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health, v. 8.
Responsibility: edited by Mark Nichter and Margaret Lock.
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