New Horizons in Medical Anthropology: Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie (Theor

Taylor & Francis

New Horizons in Medical AnthropologyEssays in Honour of Charles Leslie\nAuthor(s): Margaret Lock, Mark Nichter\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415278065, 978-0415278065\nSynopsis\nNew Horizons in Medical Anthropology is a festschrift in honor of Charles Leslie whose influential career helped shape this subfield of anthropology. This collection of cutting-edge essays explores medical innovation and medical pluralism at the turn of the 21st century. The book accomplishes two things: it reflects recent research by medical anthropologists working in Asia who have been inspired by Charles Leslie's writing on such topics as medical pluralism and the early emergence of what has become a globalized biomedicine, the social relations of therapy management, and the relationship between the politics of the state and discourse about the health of populations, illness, and medicine. The book also takes up lesser known aspect.