Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century

Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer is a professor of science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He is the author of American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within, Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age, and The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life. Junko Kitanaka is a professor of medical anthropology in the Department of Human Sciences at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. Her book Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress won the American Anthropological Association's Francis Hsu Prize, among other awards Eugene Raikhel is an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development and director of the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic.

Introduction: Topographies of Medicine: Bodies, Institutions, and Infrastructures Part I Medicine's Infrastructures Medicine and Everyday Life: Transformations of the Life Course Through Biomedical Encounters 1 Sickness, Illness, Body Politic, Planetary Health 2 Disability, Development, Potentiality, Personhood 3 Acute, Chronic, Suffering, Cure 4 Diagnosis, Symptom, Treatment, Care 5 Hospital, Clinic, Expertise, Education Part II Medicine's Bodies Making and Manipulating Bodies 6 Mental, Somatic, Neuro- 7 Genes, Race, Nature, Phenotype 8 Drugs, Embodiment, Harm, Pleasure 9 Health, Value, Technology, Prosthetic, Pharmaceutical Part III Medicine's Institutions Institutional Narratives of Medicine 10 The State, Colonialism, Humanitarianism 11 Laboratories, Experiments, Clinical Trials 12 Environment, Tropical Disease, Structural Inequality, Public Health 13 Precarity, Exposure, Toxicity, Evidence 14 Governance, Law, Policy, Activism Notes on Contributors Index