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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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