Medical Materialities: Toward a Material Culture of Medical Anthropology
In: Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology Ser
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- About the contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: a genealogy of medical materialities -- Part I Flesh and fluids -- 2 Of flesh and mesh: time, materiality, and health in surgical recovery -- 3 From attitudes to materialities: understanding bowel control for colorectal cancer patients in London -- 4 The life course of labia: female genital cutting in Somaliland -- 5 On 'being the problem': the ontological choreography of the infertile male -- Part II Infrastructures of care -- 6 Blood, lungs, and passports -- 7 'Time for tea': tea practices and care in a British hospice -- 8 'Regenerative medicine event': cells, soybeans, and a repurposing of ritual in Japan -- 9 The form that flattens -- Part III Health publics -- 10 On becoming a vegetable: life, nature, and healing for a hylozoic cult -- 11 Making the body local: the suburban shitizen -- 12 Of smoke and unguents: health affordances of sacred materiality -- 13 How photographs 'empower' bodies to act differently -- Part IV Responses -- Response: medical materialities, (post)genomics, and the biosocial -- Response: medical materialities, collections, and artefacts -- Index