The body in medical anthropology

The following is an extended list of references used by Ian Harper for two lectures introducing “the body” into Medical Anthropology for the Module, “Social Anthropology of Health and Healing”, part of the Msc in Medical Anthropology at Brunel University, 2001/2.

Arnold, David (1995) Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press.

Comaroff, John and Comaroff, Jean (1992) Ethnography and the Historical Imagination. Oxford: Westview Press. Chapter 8: Medicine, Colonialism and the Black Body.

Csordas, Thomas, J (Ed) (1994) Embodiment and Experience: The existential Ground of Culture and Health. Cambridge University Press.

Das, Veena (1996) Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India. Oxford University Press. Chapter seven: The Anthropology of Pain.

Das, Veena (1998) Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain. In Kleinman, A, Das, V, and Lock M (1998) Social Suffering. Oxford University Press.

Desjarlais, Robert R. (1992) Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Douglas, Mary (1996) Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology. London and New York: Routledge. Chapter 5: Two Bodies

Fisher, Eleanor and Arce, Alberto (2000) “The Spectacle of Modernity: Blood Microscopes and Mirrors in Colonial Tangyanika” in Alberto Arce and Norman Long (2000) Anthropology, Development and Modernities: Exploring Discourses, counter tendencies and violence. New York and London: Routledge.

Foucault, Michel (1980) Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972 – 1977. New York: pantheon Books. Chapter 3: Body/power and Chapter 8: The Eye of Power.

Good, Byron J (1994) Medicine, rationality, and experience: An anthropological perspective. Cambridge University Press. Chapter five: The body, illness experience and the lifeworld: A phenomenological account of chronic pain.

Helman, Cecil (1990) Culture, Health and Illness. Wright. Chapter 2: Cultural definitions of anatomy and physiology.

Kapferer, Bruce (1995) From the edge of Death: Sorcery and the motion of consciousness. In Questions of Consciousness. ASA monograph.

Kleinman, Arthur (1995) Writing at the Margin. Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine. Berkeley: University of California Press. Chapter 2: What is specific to biomedicine?

Lakoff, George and Johnson, Mark (1980) Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Lambek, Michael and Strathern, Andrew (Eds) (1998) Bodies and Persons: Comparative perspectives from Africa and Melanesia. Cambridge University Press.

Lock, Margaret (1993) Cultivating the Body: Anthropology and Epistemologies of Bodily Practice and Knowledge. Annual Review of Anthropology. 1993. 22: 133-55.

Lock, Margaret and Scheper-Hughes, Nancy (1996) A Critical-Interpretive Approach in Medical Anthropology: Rituals and Routines of Discipline and Dissent. In Carolyn Sargent and Thomas Johnson  (1996) (Eds) Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Method. Westport, Connecticut and London: Praeger.

Martin, Emily (1993) The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

Martin, Emily (1994) Flexible Bodies: The role of immunity in American Culture from the days of Polio to the age of AIDS. Boston: Deacon Press.

Martensen, Robert L. (1995) Alienation and the Production of Strangers: Western Medical Epistemology and the Architectonics of the Body. An Historical Perspective. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 19 (2) 141 – 82.

Petersen, Alan and Bunton, Robin (Eds) (1997) Foucault, Health and Medicine. London and New York: Routledge,

Prakash, Gyan (2000) Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India. Oxford University Press. Chapter 5: Body and Governmentality

Proctor, Robert (2000) The Nazi War on Cancer. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. Chapter 5: The Nazi Diet.

Sachs, Oliver (1991) A leg to Stand On. Picador.

Scarry, Elaine (1985) The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy (1993) Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press.Particularly Chapter 5: Nervoso: Medicine, Sickness and Human Needs.

Sharp, Leslie A (2000) The Commodification of the Body and Its Parts. Annual Review of Anthropology 2000.29: 287 – 328.

Sharma, Ursula (1996) Bringing the body back into the (social) action. Techniques of the body and the (cultural) imagination. Social Anthropology (1996), 4, 3, 251-263.

Shilling, Chris (1993) The Body and Social Theory. London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi: Sage Publications.

Sinclair, Simon (1997) Making Doctors: An Institutional Apprenticeship. Berg. Chapter 3: Dispositions and the Profession Historically.

Strathern, Andrew J (1996) Body Thoughts. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.

Turner, Bryon S (1992) Regulating Bodies: Essays in Medical Sociology. London and New York: Routledge.

Wall, Patrick (1999) Pain: The Science of Suffering. Phoenix.