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Matter Out of Place
Anthropologists often use ‘pollution’ to refer to social and individual challenges to a cultural idea of purity, which may be seen in terms of religious practice, foodstuffs and …
Specimen Science
Legal, regulatory, and ethical perspectives on balancing social benefit and human autonomy in research using human biospecimens.Advances in medicine often depend on the effective …
Fixing Babel
We all think we know what a dictionary is for and how to use one, so most of us skip the first pagesthe front matterand go right to the words we wish to look up. Yet dictionary …
Fixing Babel
We all think we know what a dictionary is for and how to use one, so most of us skip the first pages—the front matter—and go right to the words we wish to look up. Yet dictionary …
Devil is Disorder
What role might the Devil have in health and illness? The Devil is Disorder explores constructions of the body, health, illness and wider misfortune in a Trinidadian village where …
Posthumanism and Public Health
The intellectual and moral imperatives that underscore public health have sustained the idea that its fundamental scope is the study of human health, illness and suffering, and …
Cosmos, Gods and Madmen
The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies: how societies make sense of such issues as prediction and control of misfortune …
Quantified Lives and Vital Data
This book raises questions about the changing relationships between technology, people and health. It examines the accelerating pace of technological development and a general …
Quantified Lives and Vital Data
This book raises questions about the changing relationships between technology, people and health. It examines the accelerating pace of technological development and a general …
Making Stars
In bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in Making Stars interrogate contemporary and current understandings of each. Although biography was not invented in the …