Medical Materialities

Toward a Material Culture of Medical Anthropology

Timothy Carroll editor Aaron Parkhurst editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:30th Sep '20

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

This paperback is available in another edition too:

Medical Materialities cover

Medical Materialities investigates possible points of cross-fertilisation between medical anthropology and material culture studies, and considers the successes and limitations of both sub-disciplines as they attempt to understand places, practices, methods, and cultures of healing. The editors present and expand upon a definition of ‘medical materiality’, namely the social impact of the agency of often mundane, at times non-clinical, materials within contexts of health and illness, as caused by the properties and affordances of this material. The chapters address material culture in various clinical and biomedical contexts and in discussions that link the body and healing. The diverse ethnographic case studies provide valuable insight into the way cultures of medicine are understood and practised.

"This book serves to fill the gap between medical anthropology and material studies in medicine and makes the two subdisciplines mutually supportive fields. It is a must-have book in anthropology, medicine, and material studies."- A. Y. Lee, George Mason University in Choice

ISBN: 9780367662882

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 362g

250 pages