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      Toward a Material Culture of Medical Anthropology

      Medical Materialities

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      Medical Materialities book

      Toward a Material Culture of Medical Anthropology
      Edited ByAaron Parkhurst, Timothy Carroll
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2019
      eBook Published 25 January 2019
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429457081
      Pages 250
      eBook ISBN 9780429457081
      Subjects Health and Social Care, Social Sciences
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      Parkhurst, A., & Carroll, T. (Eds.). (2019). Medical Materialities: Toward a Material Culture of Medical Anthropology (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429457081

      ABSTRACT

      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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|20 pages

      Introduction

      A genealogy of medical materialities
      ByTimothy Carroll, Aaron Parkhurst

      part I|62 pages

      Flesh and fluids

      chapter 2|13 pages

      Of flesh and mesh

      Time, materiality, and health in surgical recovery
      ByRebecca Lynch

      chapter 3|15 pages

      From attitudes to materialities

      Understanding bowel control for colorectal cancer patients in London
      ByIgnacia Arteaga

      chapter 4|17 pages

      The life course of labia

      Female genital cutting in Somaliland
      ByCaroline Ackley

      chapter 5|15 pages

      On ‘being the problem’

      The ontological choreography of the infertile male
      ByRebecca Williams

      part II|61 pages

      Infrastructures of care

      chapter 6|13 pages

      Blood, lungs, and passports

      ByAaron Parkhurst

      chapter 7|14 pages

      ‘Time for tea’

      Tea practices and care in a British hospice
      BySophie Duckworth

      chapter 8|14 pages

      ‘Regenerative medicine event’

      Cells, soybeans, and a repurposing of ritual in Japan
      ByJesse Bia

      chapter 9|18 pages

      The form that flattens

      ByKelly Fagan Robinson

      part III|69 pages

      Health publics

      chapter 10|16 pages

      On becoming a vegetable

      Life, nature, and healing for a hylozoic cult
      ByRoland Littlewood

      chapter 11|15 pages

      Making the body local

      The suburban shitizen
      ByDavid Jeevendrampillai

      chapter 12|15 pages

      Of smoke and unguents

      Health affordances of sacred materiality
      ByTimothy Carroll

      chapter 13|21 pages

      How photographs ‘empower’ bodies to act differently

      ByDalia Iskander

      part IV|13 pages

      Responses

      chapter |4 pages

      Response

      Medical materialities, (post)genomics, and the biosocial
      BySahra Gibbon

      chapter |7 pages

      Response

      Medical materialities, collections, and artefacts
      ByGraeme Were
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