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Steadily increasing numbers of Americans have been diagnosed with asthma in recent years, attracting the attention of biomedical researchers, including those se

In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspe

The rise of Western scientific medicine fully established the medical sector of the U.S. political economy by the end of the Second World War, the first “soci

In the contemporary United States, matters of life and health have become key political concerns. Important to this politics of life is the desire to overcome r

The virus that changed how we think about cancer and its culprits—and the vaccine that changed how we talk about sex and its risks. Starting in 2005, people i