New Horizons in Medical Anthropology: Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie

327 Pages·2002·1.95 MB·English

by  Margaret Lock

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6 ential career has shaped this branch of anthropology as it is studied and
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8 Leslie, this collection of papers deals with issues as diverse as AIDS and
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1 The first section of the book reflects recent research by medical anthro-
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3 earlier research on medical pluralism, the social relations of therapy
4 management, the relationship between state and medical systems, and
5 health discourse. The latter part of the volume then reflects the lesser
6 known aspects of Leslie’s work – his contribution as an editor and the
7 role he played in carrying the field forward; his ethics as a medical anthro-
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30111 Charles Leslie is a remarkable and influential social scientist. New
1 Horizons in Medical Anthropology is a fitting tribute to a sensitive man
2 whose ethics, theories and codes of practice provide an essential guide to
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5 Mark Nichter is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.
6 Margaret Lock is Professor in the Department of Social Studies of
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Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology and
International Health
A series edited by Susan M DiGiacomo
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Editorial Board
H. Kris Heggenhougen, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Daniel E. Moerman, University of Michigan, Dearborn
R. Brooke Thomas, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
International Advisory Board George Armelagos, Hans Baer, Peter Brown, Xòchitl
Castaneda, Deborah Gordon, Xòchitl Herrera, Judith Justice, Montasser Kamal, Charles
Leslie, Shirley Lindenbaum, Margaret Lock, Setha Low, Mark Nichter, Duncan Pedersen,
Thomas Ots, Nacy Scheper-Hughes, Merrill Singer
Founding Editor Libbet Crandon-Malamud†
Volume 1 Volume 6
Hippocrates’ Latin American What’s Behind the Symptom?
Legacy: Humoral Medicine in the On Psychiatric Observation and
New World Anthropological Understanding
George M. Foster Angel Martinez-Hernáez
Volume 2 Volume 7
Forbidden Narratives: Critical The Daughters of Hariti:
Autobiography as Social Science Childbirth and Female Healers in
Kathryn Church South and South-East Asia
Edited by Santi Rozario and
Volume 3
Geoffrey Samuel
Anthropology and International
Health: Asian Case Studies Volume 8
Mark Nichter and Mimi Nichter New Horizons in Medical
Anthropology: Essays in Honour of
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Charles Leslie
The Anthropology of Infectious
Edited by Mark Nichter and Margaret
Disease: International Health
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Perspectives
Edited by Marcia C. Inhorn and
Peter J. Brown
Volume 5
Against Death: The Practice of
Living with AIDS
Robert M. Ariss
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First published 2002 by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.
© 2002 selection and editorial matter, Mark Nichter and
Margaret Lock; individual chapters, the contributors.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted
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5 Acknowledgements xiii
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critical interpretations of globalized health knowledge,
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STEVE FERZACCA
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The case of sexuality and the AIDS epidemic in Africa 141
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in Tibetan medicine 200
VINCANNE ADAMS
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9 Notes on the evolution of evolutionary psychiatry 221
ALLAN YOUNG
10 Utopias of health, eugenics, and germline engineering 239
MARGARET LOCK
11 Killing and healing revisited: On cultural difference,
warfare, and sacrifice 267
MARGARET TRAWICK
Charles Leslie’s Publications 297
Index 301
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6 University of California, San Francisco. Her research interests include
7 contemporary resurrections of debates on ethnomedicine, postcolonial-
8 ity and colonialism, globalized alternative medicine research, and the
9 medical domains of Tibet, Nepal and the Himalayas. Her books include
20111 Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas (Princeton University
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Gilles Bibeau is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department
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of Anthropology at the Université de Montréal. In the 1960s and 1970s
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he carried out long-term fieldwork in Africa studying African healing
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modalities and religions in both rural and urban settings. During the
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past two decades his research activities have centered around four
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main topics: the international comparative studies of mental health
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problems (Brazil, India, Mali, Peru, Côte d’Ivoire, Italy); the culture
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of drug addicts and street gangs in Montreal; the adaptation of young
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African immigrants to Québec society; and sexuality and AIDS. He
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is currently chairing an international network of Latin American
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Schools of Public Health on the social determinants of health. His
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most recent books are: Dérives Montréalaises (Boréal Press, 1995)
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(a study of shooting galleries in Montreal); and Juvenile Street-gangs
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(Boréal Press, 2001).
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9 ethnographic research is medical pluralism in Indonesia. His recent
40111 book, Healing the Modern in a Central Javanese City (Carolina
1 Academic Press, 2001) is an interpretive and phenomenological explo-
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3 modernity, and Javanese structures of experience. Professor Ferzacca
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