Bodies in Formation: An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education
Duke University Press, 2012
312 pp., US$24.95 paperback
The relationship between medicine and technology is long well established; indeed, the interconnectedness of the two worlds has shaped scientific knowledge and practice for centuries. Particularly in the realm of surgery, the inextricability of technology from medical practice …
For this latest installment of “Top of the heap” we asked Emily Martin what she’s been reading recently. Here’s the list she sent us:
Ernest Shackleton, South: The Endurance Expedition. (Penguin 2004).
This is the first person account of Shackleton’s expedition into the Antarctic in 1914. It is filled with unbelievable hardships and physical privation that
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This is the first post in a new series we’re calling “Top of the heap”. Following the lead of Cultural Anthropology (see their “Playlists” feature) and others, we’ve asked scholars whose work we enjoy reading to tell us a little about what they’re reading or planning to read. In this first installment, Janelle Taylor and Hannah Landecker…
Edited by Milton J. Lewis and Kerrie L. MacPherson
Routledge Publishing, 2012
322 pp., US $155.00 (hardback)
The phrase “double disease burden” is one that has been increasingly used in modern public health discussions. The concept applies to “developing …
Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine
University of California Press, 2012
344 pp., US$34.95 paperback
It is a truism that the world we live in today is increasingly interconnected. Yet, when it comes to medicine – and particularly “traditional” or alternative medicine – the tendency is often to delimit its study along …
Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile
by Clara Han
University of California Press, 2012
298 pp, US$26.95 paperback
Life in Debt is not an easy read. This ethnography of care and violence—intimate, political and governmental— in La Pincoya, a poor neighborhood of neoliberal Santiago, effectively draws the reader into the everyday rhythms of its …
