Arc of Interference
Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge
1st Edition
Published on 27. February 2023
408 pages
978-1-4780-2437-8 (ISBN)
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Arc of Interference revisits the vital and core insights of medical anthropology in light of contemporary planetary and social crises, showing how the field provides central practices for understanding, interfering in, and refashioning a world full of mounting dilemmas.
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João Biehl is Susan Dod Brown Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Princeton University and coeditor of Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming, also published by Duke University Press.
Vincanne Adams is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of California, San Francisco and author of Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move, also published by Duke University Press.
Paul Farmer (1959-2022) was Kolokotrones University Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Vincanne Adams is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of California, San Francisco and author of Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move, also published by Duke University Press.
Paul Farmer (1959-2022) was Kolokotrones University Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Content
Foreword. Against the Grain: Medical Anthropology in the Anthropocene / Paul Farmer xi
Introduction. Art of Interference / João Biehl and Vincanne Adams 1
Part I. Traversing Imperiled Worlds and Envisaging Human Futures
1. Death by Fire: The Problem of Moral Certainty in China's Tibet / Vincanne Adams 23
2. Bringing Up the Bodies: Erasing and Caring for Mexicans in the Mexico-US Borderland / Davíd Carrasco 42
3. In the Vast Abrupt: Horizon Work in an Age of Runaway Climate Change / Adriana Petryna 65
Part II. The Category Fallacy and Care Amid the Experts
4. Justifying a Lower Standard of Health Care for the World's Poor: A Call of Decolonizing Global Health / Salmaan Keshavjee 91
5. The Moral Economies of Heart Disease and Cardiac Care in India / David S. Jones 112
6. Intimate and Social Spheres of Mental Illness / Janis H. Jenkins 133
Part III. Worlds of Biotechnological Promise and the Plasticity of Self and Power
7. A Good Death: The Promise and Threat of Biometric Inclusion for Transgender Women in India / Lawrence Cohen 161
8. Medical Cosmopolitanism in Moral Worlds: Aspirations and Stratifications in Global Quests for Conception / Marcia C. Inhorn 187
9. Environments and Mutable Selves / Margaret Lock 210
Part IV. Tracing Arts of Living (Or, Anthropologies After Hope Has Departed)
10. Anthropology in a Mode of Dying / Robert Desjarlais 239
11. Ethnographic Open / João Biehl 257
12. Thinking on Borrowed Time. About Privileging the Human / Jean Comaroff 287
Afterword. Lessons Learned from the Ethnography of Care / Arthur Kleinman 305
In Memoriam 327
Acknowledgments 329
Bibliography 331
Contributors 371
Index 373
Introduction. Art of Interference / João Biehl and Vincanne Adams 1
Part I. Traversing Imperiled Worlds and Envisaging Human Futures
1. Death by Fire: The Problem of Moral Certainty in China's Tibet / Vincanne Adams 23
2. Bringing Up the Bodies: Erasing and Caring for Mexicans in the Mexico-US Borderland / Davíd Carrasco 42
3. In the Vast Abrupt: Horizon Work in an Age of Runaway Climate Change / Adriana Petryna 65
Part II. The Category Fallacy and Care Amid the Experts
4. Justifying a Lower Standard of Health Care for the World's Poor: A Call of Decolonizing Global Health / Salmaan Keshavjee 91
5. The Moral Economies of Heart Disease and Cardiac Care in India / David S. Jones 112
6. Intimate and Social Spheres of Mental Illness / Janis H. Jenkins 133
Part III. Worlds of Biotechnological Promise and the Plasticity of Self and Power
7. A Good Death: The Promise and Threat of Biometric Inclusion for Transgender Women in India / Lawrence Cohen 161
8. Medical Cosmopolitanism in Moral Worlds: Aspirations and Stratifications in Global Quests for Conception / Marcia C. Inhorn 187
9. Environments and Mutable Selves / Margaret Lock 210
Part IV. Tracing Arts of Living (Or, Anthropologies After Hope Has Departed)
10. Anthropology in a Mode of Dying / Robert Desjarlais 239
11. Ethnographic Open / João Biehl 257
12. Thinking on Borrowed Time. About Privileging the Human / Jean Comaroff 287
Afterword. Lessons Learned from the Ethnography of Care / Arthur Kleinman 305
In Memoriam 327
Acknowledgments 329
Bibliography 331
Contributors 371
Index 373
