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Margaret M. Lock

AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF BIOMEDICINE

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This profoundly revised version of a book that has already become a classic incorporates the most recent developments and challenges in medicine, biology and public health as well as the most salient questions and debates among anthropologists studying these various fields. Addressing issues at the interface between physical life and social life, it brilliantly covers a broad domain from biomedical technologies to global health.Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, FranceThis second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine moves at the speed of the global reach of the… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Nguyen, Vinh-Kim
  • ISBN: 978-1-119-06913-3
  • EAN: 9781119069133
  • Produktnummer: 23630063
  • Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 560 S.
  • Masse: H25.2 cm x B18.6 cm x D2.7 cm 910 g
  • Auflage: 2nd Edition
  • Gewicht: 910
  • Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor


MARGARET LOCK is Professor Emerita at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Dept. of Social Studies of Medicine and Dept. of Anthropology. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Officier de L'Ordre national du Québec, Officer of the Order of Canada, and an elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Author and/or co-editor of 18 books and over 220 articles, Lock is a medical anthropologist whose work focuses on embodiment, comparative epistemologies of medical knowledge, and the global impact of biomedical technologies.VINH-KIM NGUYEN is Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland and at the University of Montreal, Canada. He is also Chair of Anthropology and Global Health at the Collège d'Études mondiales in Paris. He is a medical anthropologist and practicing physician who practices in infectious diseases and emergency care and has worked on the frontlines of global health efforts particularly in West Africa since 1994.

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