ABSTRACT

New Horizons in Medical Anthropology is a festschrift in honor of Charles Leslie whose influential career helped shape this subfield of anthropology. This collection of cutting-edge essays explores medical innovation and medical pluralism at the turn of the 21st century. The book accomplishes two things: it reflects recent research by medical anthropologists working in Asia who have been inspired by Charles Leslie's writing on such topics as medical pluralism and the early emergence of what has become a globalized biomedicine, the social relations of therapy management, and the relationship between the politics of the state and discourse about the health of populations, illness, and medicine. The book also takes up lesser known aspects of Leslie's work: his contribution as an editor and the role he played in carrying the field forward; his ethics as a medical anthropologist committed to humanism and sensitive to racism and eugenics; and the passion he inspired in his co-workers and students.
Charles Leslie is a remarkable and influential social scientist. New Horizons in Medical Anthropology is a fitting tribute to a sensitive scholar whose theories and codes of practice provide an essential guide to future generations of medical anthropologists.

chapter 1|34 pages

Introduction: From documenting medical pluralism to critical interpretations of globalized health knowledge, policies, and practices

From documenting medical pluralism to critical interpretations of globalized health knowledge, policies,

chapter 3|23 pages

Too bold, too hot

Crossing “culture” in AIDS prevention in Nepal

chapter 5|30 pages

Making sense out of modernity

chapter 6|31 pages

A return to scientific racism in medical social sciences

The case of sexuality and the AIDS epidemic in Africa

chapter 7|28 pages

“We five, our twenty-five”

Myths of population out of control in contemporary India

chapter 8|21 pages

Establishing proof

Translating “science” and the state in Tibetan medicine

chapter 11|30 pages

Killing and healing revisited: On cultural difference, warfare, and sacrifice

On cultural difference, warfare, and sacrifice

chapter |4 pages

Charles Leslie’s Publications