Biosocial Worlds: Anthropology of Health Environments Beyond Determinism - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1787358240 ISBN 13 : 9781787358249

Editeur : UCL Press, 2020

Synopsis

Biosocial Worlds offers state-of-the-art contributions to anthropological reflections on the porous boundaries between human and nonhuman life--the biosocial worlds. Based on changing understandings of the natural and the social, the book explores what it means to be human in these worlds, even as the division between scientific disciplines has, for more than a century, maintained a separation of the natural and the social. Drawing on examples from Botswana, Denmark, Mexico, the Netherlands, Uganda, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the volume argues against the separation of the biological and the social in the study of human and nonhuman life and seeks to unfold the consequences of their discursive separation with the aim of rethinking "the biosocial".

Health topics in the book include diabetes, trauma, cancer, HIV, tuberculosis, prevention of neonatal disease, and wider issues of epigenetics. In addition, the book addresses constructions of health and disease in a wide range of environments and engages with analyses of the concept of environment. Anthropological reflection and ethnographic case studies, meanwhile, explore how health and environment are entangled in ways that moves their relation beyond interdependence to one of inseparability.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jens Seeberg is a professor of anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark.


Andreas Roepstorff is a professor of anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark.


Lotte Meinert is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: UCL Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1787358240
• ISBN 13: 9781787358249
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
• Éditeur: Seeberg Jens, Roepstorff Andreas, Meinert Lotte
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