Medical Materialities

Toward a Material Culture of Medical Anthropology

Aaron Parkhurst, Timothy Carroll

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English

Routledge
10 January 2019

Material culture; Social & cultural anthropology; Medical anthropology

Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology

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.

Edited by: Aaron Parkhurst, Timothy Carroll
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138314290
ISBN 10: 1138314293
Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 10 January 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Aaron Parkhurst is a lecturer in Biosocial Medical Anthropology at University College London, UK, with a focus on the anthropology of the human body, and the anthropology and bioethics of emerging technology. Timothy Carroll is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology at University College London, UK, studying end-of-life and post-mortem care amongst Orthodox Christians in Britain.

Reviews for Medical Materialities: Toward a Material Culture of Medical Anthropology

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