An Anthropology of Biomedicine By Margaret Lock And Friends

"Through the conceptual expression of biomedical anthropology and the social studies of science, the analysis of the issues arising from the latest technology in medicine and public health thinking in developing countries, this book will become a reference for sociologists and in a wider range of all interesting changes and contemporary challenges "

Didier Vassin, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton, and École des Hauts Eludes in Social Sciences, Paris

"The anthropology of biomedicine is a judicial review of the claims of biomedical knowledge that demonstrate the focus of local biology on global health.

Vina Das, Johns Hopkins University

"Because Lock and Nguyen simultaneously take on a common constitution of diverse biological and social, human, microbiological, serious and more, they have written a timely, ethnographic, theoretical and necessary book, better in achieving health as a human right. universal. "

Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz

"Biomedical Anthropology presents biomedical science from an anthropological perspective. Explores, the intertwining of physical objects with history, the environment, culture, and politics. Focusing on how the application of biomedical technologies leads to radical changes in large-scale societies Vinh Kim Nguyen The theory that the human body in health and disease is not existentially given, but is a mobile entity and can be a form, an elusive product of nature and culture.

Following the essential global application of biomedical technologies, the authors reveal intentional and unintended local consequences and exacerbate global disparities and health inequalities caused by these technologies.

About the author (2010)

Margaret Locke is Professor Marjorie Bronfman Emerita of the Department of Social Studies in Medicine and the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. Among its awards, many awards include the Gold Medal for Research of the Council for Social Research and Human Sciences of Canada and the Wellcome Medal of the British Anthropological Society. In 2005 he received the Killam Prize and the Trudeau Foundation scholarship. She is the author and co-editor of 14 books and published more than 190 pages.

Vinh Kim Nguyen is an anthropologist and medical doctor. He practices medicine in Montreal at Clinique l'Actuel, a specialist in HIV and hepatitis, in the emergency department of the Jewish General Hospital, and teaches at the University of Montreal, where he is an assistant professor of social medicine. As a researcher, he belongs to the World Health Unit of the Hospital Research Center of the University of Montreal and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. He recently received the Aurora Award for his research from the Council for Research in Social and Human Sciences in Canada.

Bіblіоgrарhіс іnfоrmаtіоn 

Title: An Anthrороlоgу оf Biomedicine
Authors: Margaret Lосk, Nguyen Vinh-Kim, Vinh-Kim Nguуеn
Publisher: John Wіlеу & Sоnѕ, 2010
ISBN: 1405110724, 9781405110723
Lеngth: 506 раgеѕ
Subjесtѕ:
Social Sсіеnсе › Anthrороlоgу › Culturаl & Sосіаl, Mеdісаl / Gеnеrаl
Social Sсіеnсе / Anthrороlоgу / Cultural & Sосіаl
Tесhnоlоgу & Engіnееrіng / Bіоmеdісаl