Presents a key collection of both classic and new agenda-setting articles in this central area of anthropology Provides analytic and historical contextual introductions by leading figures in medical anthropology, medical sociology, science studies, social theory and general anthropology .

Acknowledgments ix About the Editors xiii Introduction 1 Part I Antecedents 7 Introduction 9 1 Massage in Melanesia 15W. H. R. Rivers 2 The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events 18E. E. Evans-Pritchard 3 Muchona the Hornet, Interpreter of Religion 26Victor Turner 4 The Ojibwa Self and Its Behavioral Environment 38Irving A. Hallowell 5 The Charity Physician 47Rudolf Virchow 6 The Role of Beliefs and Customs in Sanitation Programs 50Benjamin Paul 7 Introduction to Asian Medical Systems 55Charles Leslie 8 Medical Anthropology and the Problem of Belief 64Byron J. Good Part II Illness and Narrative, Body and Experience 77 Introduction 79 9 Medicine’s Symbolic Reality: On a Central Problem in the Philosophy of Medicine 85Arthur M. Kleinman 10 Elements of Charismatic Persuasion and Healing 91Thomas J. Csordas 11 The Thickness of Being: Intentional Worlds, Strategies of Identity, and Experience Among Schizophrenics 108Ellen Corin 12 The Concept of Therapeutic ‘Emplotment’ 121Cheryl Mattingly 13 Myths/Histories/Lives 137Michael Jackson 14 The State Construction of Affect: Political Ethos and Mental Health Among Salvadoran Refugees 143Janis Hunter Jenkins 15 Struggling Along: The Possibilities for Experience among the Homeless Mentally Ill 160Robert Desjarlais Part III Governmentalities and Biological Citizenship 175 Introduction 177 16 Dreaming of Psychiatric Citizenship: A Case Study of Supermax Confinement 181Lorna A. Rhodes 17 Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations 199Adriana Petryna 18 Human Pharmakon: Symptoms, Technologies, Subjectivities 213João Biehl 19 The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed 232Veena Das 20 Where Ethics and Politics Meet: The Violence of Humanitarianism in France 245Miriam Ticktin Part IV The Biotechnical Embrace 263 Introduction 265 21 The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients 272Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good 22 Where It Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation 284Lawrence Cohen 23 ‘‘Robin Hood’’ of Techno-Turkey or Organ Trafficking in the State of Ethical Beings 300Aslihan Sanal 24 Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions 319Marcia C. Inhorn 25 AIDS in 2006: Moving toward One World, One Hope? 327Jim Yong Kim and Paul Farmer Part V Biosciences, Biotechnologies 331 Introduction 333 26 Dr. Judah Folkman’s Decalogue and Network Analysis 339Michael M. J. Fischer 27 Beyond Nature and Culture: Modes of Reasoning in the Age of Molecular Biology and Medicine 345Hans-Jörg Rheinberger 28 Immortality, In Vitro: A History of the HeLa Cell Line 353Hannah Landecker 29 A Digital Image of the Category of the Person 367Joseph Dumit 30 Experimental Values: Indian Clinical Trials and Surplus Health 377Kaushik Sunder Rajan Part VI Global Health, Global Medicine 389 Introduction 391 31 Medical Anthropology and International Health Planning 394George M. Foster 32 Anthropology and Global Health 405Craig R. Janes and Kitty K. Corbett 33 Mot Luuk Problems in Northeast Thailand: Why Women’s Own Health Concerns Matter as Much as Disease Rates 422Pimpawun Boonmongkon, Mark Nichter, and Jen Pylypa 34 The New Malaise: Medical Ethics and Social Rights in the Global Era 437Paul Farmer 35 Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life 452Didier Fassin Part VII Postcolonial Disorders 467 Introduction 469 36 Amuk in Java: Madness and Violence in Indonesian Politics 473Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good 37 The Political Economy of ‘Trauma’ in Haiti in the Democratic Era of Insecurity 481Erica James 38 Contract of Mutual (In)Difference: Governance and the Humanitarian Apparatus in Contemporary Albania and Kosovo 496Mariella Pandolfi 39 Darfur through a Shoah Lens: Sudanese Asylum Seekers, Unruly Biopolitical Dramas, and the Politics of Humanitarian Compassion in Israel 505Sarah S. Willen 40 The Elegiac Addict: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject 522Angela Garcia Index 540

A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities brings together essays that represent key themes in the vibrant field of medical anthropology: its theoretical legacy; phenomenologies of illness and narrative, body and experience; biological citizenship; the biotechnical embrace; the new medical biosciences; global health and medicine; postcolonial power relations and the humanitarian challenges of the contemporary world. This ground-breaking reader brings together a vital set of theoretical traditions that are deftly responsive to emergent realities in clinical medicine, biomedical science, global health, humanitarian intervention, global politics, and everyday life.

"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