Second Edition
This edition first published 2018
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Edition History: Margaret Lock and Vinh‐Kim Nguyen (1e, 2010) published by Blackwell Ltd.
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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data
Names: Lock, Margaret M., author. | Nguyen, Vinh‐Kim, author.
Title: An anthropology of biomedicine / by Margaret Lock, McGill University, Vinh‐Kim Nguyen, University of Montreal.
Description: Second Edition. | Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2018. | “Edition History: Margaret Lock and Vinh‐Kim Nguyen (1e, 2010) published by Blackwell Ltd.”–T.p. verso. | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2017033416 (print) | LCCN 2017034377 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119069140 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119069157 (epub) | ISBN 9781119069133 (paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Medical anthropology. | Public health–Anthropological aspects. | Human body–Social aspects.
Classification: LCC GN296 (ebook) | LCC GN296 .L63 2018 (print) | DDC 306.4/61–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017033416
Cover image: © Leila Alaoui, No Pasara, untitled
Cover design by Wiley
To Richard, Adam, Gudrun and Denis
We undertook this project at the behest of readers we encountered the world over whose engagement with the first edition stimulated us to further develop and refine our arguments and allowed us to draw on the detailed and rich work addressing the themes of the first edition that has emerged since 2010. We can only regret that space did not allow us to draw more extensively on this exciting new wave of scholarship.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the European Research Council, through a Consolidator Grant awarded to Vinh‐Kim Nguyen to study “the science and politics of a world without AIDS”. Nguyen also acknowledges the support of Professor Frédéric Adnet at Hôpital Avicenne and the Assistance publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, and in Montréal Dr Réjean Thomas at the Clinique l’Actuel and colleagues at the Jewish General Hospital, whose flexibility made it possible to complete this book despite clinical commitments.
We want to thank Erin Martineau, Emmanuelle Roth and Kwaku Adomako who provided invaluable editorial and research assistance. Tanya McMullin, our editor at Wiley, as well as an extensive staff have been of enormous help throughout the process.
The cover image is from the photographic exhibition “No Pasara” that captures the anguish and resilience of refugees. Leila Alaoui, the French‐Moroccan photographer and video artist who designed the image, was killed in 2016 during an attack carried out by Al‐Qaeda in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. She was on a photographic assignment for Amnesty International at the time. We are grateful to her brother Soulaimane B. Alaoui and the Fondation Leila Alaoui for their permission to reproduce this image.
Last and not least, we wish to acknowledge our debt to a wide circle of colleagues and friends, too numerous to mention, who over the years have provided an engaged, critical and supportive intellectual community on both sides of the Atlantic, particularly at the Collège d’Études mondiales of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris, the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva and McGill University in Montréal.
We have drawn at length on the publications of numerous anthropologists, sociologists, historians, epidemiologists, philosophers, biologists and others to ground our arguments and furnish the bedrock of this book, but the overarching orientation and the narratives that we have developed on these incredibly rich sources are our own.