A Reader in Medical Anthropology

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1 A Reader in Medical Anthropology Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities Edited by Byron J. Good, Michael M. J. Fischer, Sarah S. Willen, and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good ^ndersámmelgsbiet /alles- & v m e t k u n û o p<:h 3 ^itímmmwí ml tísr PK» ^ WILEY-BLACKWELL A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication

2 Contents Acknowledgments About the Editors ix xiii Introduction 1 Part I Antecedents 7 Introduction 9 1 Massage in Melanesia 15 W. H. R. Rivers 2 The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events 18 E. E. Evans-Pritchard 3 Muchona the Hornet, Interpreter of Religion 26 Victor Turner 4 The Ojibwa Self and Its Behavioral Environment 38 Irving A. Hallowell 5 The Charity Physician 47 Rudolf Virchow 6 The Role of Beliefs and Customs in Sanitation Programs 50 Benjamin Faul 7 Introduction to Asian Medical Systems 55 Charles Leslie 8 Medical Anthropology and the Problem of Belief 64 Byron J. Good

3 vi CONTENTS 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 85 Arthur M. Kleinman 10 Elements of Charismatic Persuasion and Healing 91 Thomas J. Csordas 11 The Thickness of Being: Intentional Worlds, Strategies of Identity, and Experience Among Schizophrenics 108 Ellen Corin 12 The Concept of Therapeutic 'Emplotment' 121 Cheryl Mattingly 13 Myths/Histories/Lives 137 Michael Jackson 14 The State Construction of Affect: Political Ethos and Mental Health Among Salvadoran Refugees 143 Janis Hunter Jenkins 15 Struggling Along: The Possibilities for Experience among the Homeless Mentally Robert Desjarlais Part III Governmentalities and Biological Citizenship 175 Introduction Dreaming of Psychiatric Citizenship: A Case Study of Supermax Confinement 181 Lorna A. Rhodes 17 Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations 199 Adriana Petryna 18 Human Pharmakon: Symptoms, Technologies, Subjectivities 213 Joao Biehl 19 The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed 232 Veena Das 20 Where Ethics and Politics Meet: The Violence of Humanitarianism in France 245 Miriam Ticktin

4 CONTENTS vii Part IV The Biotechnical Embrace 263 Introduction The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients 272 Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good 22 Where It Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation 284 Lawrence Cohen 23 "Robin Hood" of Techno-Turkey or Organ Trafficking in the State of Ethical Beings 300 Aslihan Sanai 24 Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions 319 Marcia C. Inhorn 25 AIDS in 2006: Moving toward One World, One Hope? 327 Jim Yong Kim and Paul Farmer Part V Biosciences, Biotechnologies 331 Introduction Dr. Judah Folkman's Decalogue and Network Analysis 339 Michael M. J. Fischer 27 Beyond Nature and Culture: Modes of Reasoning in the Age of Molecular Biology and Medicine 345 Hans-Jörg Rheinberger 28 Immortality, In Vitro: A History of the HeLa Cell Line 353 Hannah Landecker 29 A Digital Image of the Category of the Person 367 Joseph Dumit 30 Experimental Values: Indian Clinical Trials and Surplus Health 377 Kaushik Sunder Rajan Part VI Global Health, Global Medicine 389 Introduction Medical Anthropology and International Health Planning George M. Foster Anthropology and Global Health Craig R. Janes and Kitty K. Corbett 405

5 viü CONTENTS 33 Mot Luuk Problems in Northeast Thailand: Why Women's Own Health Concerns Matter as Much as Disease Rates 422 Pimpawun Boonmongkon, Mark Nichter, and Jen Pylypa 34 The New Malaise: Medical Ethics and Social Rights in the Global Era 437 Paul Farmer 35 Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life 452 Didier Fassin Part VII Postcolonial Disorders 467 Introduction Amuk in Java: Madness and Violence in Indonesian Politics 473 Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good 37 The Political Economy of 'Trauma' in Haiti in the Democratic Era of Insecurity 481 Erica James 38 Contract of Mutual (In)Difference: Governance and the Humanitarian Apparatus in Contemporary Albania and Kosovo 496 Mariella Pandolfi 39 Darfur through a Shoah Lens: Sudanese Asylum Seekers, Unruly Biopolitical Dramas, and the Politics of Humanitarian Compassion in Israel 505 Sarah S. Willen 40 The Elegiac Addict: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject 522 Angela Garcia Index 540