A Reader in Medical Anthropology

Acknowledgments.

About the Editors.

Introduction.

Part I: Antecedents.

Part II: Illness and Narrative, Body and Experience.

Part III: Governmentalities and Biological Citizenship.

Part IV: The Biotechnical Embrace.

Part V: Biosciences, Biotechnologies.

Part VI: Global Health, Global Medicine.

Part VII: Postcolonial Disorders.

Index.

"The impressive scope of this wonderful reader, drawing on its
editors' immense collective experience, offers a marvelous
reframing of the foundational debates in twentieth-century medical
anthropology, including both the full range of canonical readings
but also several texts that should be canonical. It links these
debates to a wide range of contemporary work, serving as much as an
introduction to the discipline's future as to its
past."

--Lawrence Cohen, University of California, Berkeley

"This collection is distinctive for its range, depth, and most
of all for its taste in theoretical ingenuity and the most
compelling, memorable writing in contemporary medical
anthropology."

--George Marcus, University of California, Irvine

"A Reader in Medical Anthropology is uniquely successful
in assembling seminal publications representing the century-long
history of medical anthropology. It is the first collection to
successfully combine the diverse perspectives, epistemologies, and
topical interests of contemporary medical anthropology with its
intellectual wellsprings."

--Allan Young, McGill University

"This collection of classic and innovative essays adds lustre
and new, surprising facets to the anthropology of medicine. It
crystallizes the most important and compelling cultural analysis of
human disease and social suffering, personal trauma, and global
insecurity."

--Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney

Byron J. Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology,
Depart-ment of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard
Medical School, and Professor in the Department of
Anthropol-ogy, Harvard University.

Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in
the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and
Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
at Harvard Medical School.

Sarah S. Willen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at
Southern Methodist University. She has been an NIMN Postdoctoral
Fellow in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at
Harvard Medical School and has taught in the Department of
Anthropology, Harvard University.

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good is Professor of Social Medicine,
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical
School, and in the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

B. J. Good, Harvard Medical School, USA; M. M. J. Fischer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; S. S. Willen, University of Connecticut, USA; M.-J. DelVecchio Good, Harvard Medical School, USA