Medical Anthropology at the Intersections

"Imagining the future of medical anthropology, this collection vigorously conveys the theoretical roots and engaged social activisms committed to equity, rights, and sociopolitical change in mental health and humanitarianism, feminist projects on technoscience and reproduction; HIV and sexuality; and social bodies, global health, and local biologies." - Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, coeditor of A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent RealitiesBR> "This anthology joins at least three earlier anthologies in providing overviews of medical anthropology as a subfield of the discipline. The others are Medical anthropology and contemporary theory and method (second edition, 1996), edited by Carolyn Sargent and Thomas M. Johnson; Medical anthropology: regional perspectives and shared concerns (2007), edited by Francine Saillant and Serge Genest; and A companion to medical anthropology (2011), edited by Merrill Singer and Pamela I. Erickson. All the contributors to the volume under review, needless to say, are world-renowned medical anthropologists and again demonstrate that medical anthropology is a variegated endeavour... Medical anthropology at the intersections provides an excellent overview of many of the concerns of medical anthropologists both at the theoretical and applied levels fifty years into what has proven to be a dynamic subfield of the parent discipline." - Hans A. Baer, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 19, 405-441 2013