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Arc of Interference: Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge - Biehl, João (Editor), and Adams, Vincanne (Editor), and Farmer, Paul (Foreword by)
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The radically humanistic essays in Arc of Interference refigure our sense of the real, the ethical, and the political in the face of mounting social and planetary upheavals. Creatively assembled around Arthur Kleinman's medical anthropological arc and eschewing hegemonic modes of intervention, the essays advance the notion of a care-ful ethnographic praxis of interference. To interfere is to dislodge ideals of naturalness, blast enduring binaries (human/nonhuman, self/other, us/them), and redirect technocratic agendas while ...

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Arc of Interference: Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge 2023, Duke University Press

ISBN-13: 9781478019800

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Arc of Interference: Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge 2023, Duke University Press

ISBN-13: 9781478017097

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