Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century

Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, methodologies, and theories in the discipline, drawing on contributions from leading anthropologists around the world. As a discipline, medical anthropology provides situational analysis of health, disease, and disability to show how the experiences of medical experts, patients, and their broader communities are informed by their social and cultural contexts. Adopting a keywords-driven approach, Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with an introduction to the concepts and approaches that have animated medical anthropology over the course of the twentieth century. Authors put these keywords into dialogue with their ethnographic and archival research to demonstrate how these concepts can be expanded to address contemporary phenomena related to health, disease, and disability. Mapping Medical for the Twenty-First Century provides newcomers to medical anthropology with a robust introduction to the discipline, while providing experienced readers a set of chapters that explore the discipline in novel and exciting ways.

Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer is a professor of science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He is the author of American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony, Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age, and The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Machine, and Modern American Life. Junko Kitanaka is a professor of medical anthropology in the Department of Human Sciences at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. Her book Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress won the American Anthropological Association's Francis Hsu Prize, among other awards. Eugene Raikhel is an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development and Director of the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic.