Managing uncertainty : ethnographic studies of illness, risk, and the struggle for control
著者
書誌事項
Managing uncertainty : ethnographic studies of illness, risk, and the struggle for control
(Critical anthropology, v. 2)
Museum Tusculanum Press, 2005
大学図書館所蔵 全2件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
"This collection of essays is based on papers that were presented at the second Nordic Workshop on Medical Anthropology, held in Denmark in January 2000"--P. 7
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-[283])
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The overall focus of this book is the ways humans deal with life conditions, with destiny, uncertainty and misfortune -- how we try to control the risks of living through medicines, technologies and magic. When dealing with questions of health and illness rational solutions and meaningful explanations may be hard to find, and treatment efforts are often guided just as much by hope as by rational choice. Evaluating the risks of illness is just one of a number of ways in which human beings attempt to exert some sense of control over their lives. New methods of testing for ills and new developments in, for example, genetic screening and in vitro fertilisation combined with the growing demands of well-informed patients seem to have turned concern from the actual problems of specific diseases toward controlling life and the risks of living in general. The chapters of this book reflect a common effort to transgress the limits of the medical by drawing on a fundamental concern with the logic of social and cultural practice. The book represents a de-medicalization of medical anthropology and a return to some of the classic themes in anthropology but with a different approach, emphasizing subjectivity, intentionality and agency.
目次
- Matters of life and death
- Restoration of social order through the extinction of non-human children
- Birth control, life control: female sterilisation in north-east Brazil
- Close encounters with infertility and procreative technology
- Pursuing knowledge about a genetic risk of cancer
- Blood-stealing rumours in western Kenya: a local critique of medical research in its global context
- Disorders of displacement: Bosnian refugees and the reconstitution of normality
- Challenging control: Antabuse medication in Denmark
- Becoming mentally ill: existential crisis and the social negotiation of identity
- Medicalised experience and the active use of biomedicine
- Uncertain undertakings: practising health care in the subjunctive mood.
「Nielsen BookData」 より