Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University. She is past president of the Society for Medical Anthropology and the author, most recently, of The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East.

Emily A. Wentzell is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections / Marcia C. Inhorn and Emily A. Wentzell 1
Part I. Histories
1. Grafting Together Medical Anthropology, Feminism, and Technoscience / Emily Martin 23
2. Getting at Anthropology through Medical History: Notes on the Consumption of Chinese Embryos and Fetuses in the Western Imagination / Lynn M. Morgan 41
3. Making Peasants Protestant and Other Projects: Medical Anthropology and Its Global Condition / Lawrence Cohen 65
Part II. Queries
4. That Obscure Object of Global Health / Didier Fassin 95
5. Medical Anthropology and Mental Health: Five Questions for the Next Fifty Years / Arthur Kleinman 116
6. From Genetics to Postgenomics and the Discovery of the New Social Body / Margaret Lock 129
Part III. Activisms
7. Anthropology and the Study of Disability Worlds / Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg 163
8. Medical Anthropology and Public Policy: Using Research to Change the World from What It Is to What We Believe it Should Be / Merrill Singer 183
9. Critical Intersections and Engagements: Gender, Sexuality, Health, and Rights in Medical Anthropology / Richard Parker 206
Notes 239
References 251
Contributors 307
Index 313

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