Biosocial worlds anthropology of health environments beyond determinism
Biosocial Worlds presents state-of-the-art contributions to anthropological reflections on the porous boundaries between human and non-human life - biosocial worlds. Based on changing understandings of biology and the social, it explores what it means to be human in these worlds. Growing separation...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
UCL Press
2020, 2020©2020
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| Series: | Culture and health
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Introduction
- 1. Permeable bodies and environmental delineation
- 2. Situating biologies. Studying differentiation as material-semiotic practice
- 3. Pig-human relations in neonatology: knowing and unknowing in a multi-species collaborative
- 4. Anthropology's end to biodeterminism: a new sociobiology
- 5. Tribes without rulers: bacteria life in the human holobiont
- 6. Biosocial dynamics of multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis: a bacterial perspective
- 7. When sickness comes in multiples: co-morbidity in Botswana
- 8. Legacies of violence: the communicability of spirits and trauma in Northern Uganda
- 9. Extinction and time amid climate change or, what is a Horizon?