The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology (Routledge Anthropology Handbooks)

"The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology. In this exciting departure from conventional handbooks, compendia and encyclopedias, the three editors have written the core chapters of the volume, and in so doing, invite the reader to reflect on the ethnographic richness and theoretical contributions of research on the clinic and the field, bioscience and medical research, infectious and non-communicable diseases, biomedicine, complementary and alternative modalities, structural violence and vulnerability, gender and ageing, reproduction and sexuality. As a way of illustrating the themes, a rich variety of case studies are included, presented by over 60 authors from around the world, reflecting the diverse cultural contexts in which people experience health, illness, and healing. Each chapter and its case studies are introduced by a photograph, reflecting medical and visual anthropological responses to inequality and vulnerability. An indispensible reference in this fastest growing area of anthropological study, The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology is a unique and innovative contribution to the field."--Back cover Dedications Contents List of Figures About the Figures Acknowledgments List of Contributors List of Photographers 1 Introduction: Sign Posts • Lenore Manderson, Elizabeth Cartwright and Anita Hardon 2 Changing Childhoods • Lenore Manderson, Elizabeth Cartwright and Anita Hardon 3 Sexuality and Technology • Anita Hardon, Lenore Manderson and Elizabeth Cartwright 4 The Socialities of HIV • Anita Hardon, Lenore Manderson and Elizabeth Cartwright 5 Stress in Everyday Life • Anita Hardon, Elizabeth Cartwright and Lenore Manderson 6 Bodily Resistances • Elizabeth Cartwright, Anita Hardon and Lenore Manderson 7 Chronicities of Illness • Lenore Manderson, Elizabeth Cartwright and Anita Hardon 8 Ways of Caring • Elizabeth Cartwright, Anita Hardon and Lenore Manderson 9 Endings • Lenore Manderson, Elizabeth Cartwright and Anita Hardon 10 Marketing Medicine • Anita Hardon, Lenore Manderson and Elizabeth Cartwright 11 The Anthropocene • Elizabeth Cartwright, Lenore Manderson and Anita Hardon 12 Global Quests for Care • Elizabeth Cartwright, Lenore Manderson and Anita Hardon 13 War, Violence and Social Repair • Lenore Manderson, Elizabeth Cartwright and Anita Hardon 14 Genes, Kinship and Risk • Anita Hardon, Lenore Manderson and Elizabeth Cartwright 15 How the Logics of Biomedical Practice Travel • Elizabeth Cartwright, Anita Hardon and Lenore Manderson 16 Vital Signs: Medical Anthropology in the Twenty-first Century • Lenore Manderson, Anita Hardon and Elizabeth Cartwright Index