Medical anthropology in Europe : shaping the field / edited by Elisabeth Hsu, Caroline Potter.

Medical anthropology in Europe (2015)

London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

ix, 137 pages ; 25 cm

Originally published in Anthropology & Medicine, volume 19, issue 1, April 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Medical anthropology in Europe : shaping the field / Elisabeth Hsu and Caroline Potter with vignette by Anita Hardon and Claire Beaudevin -- Alien origins : xenophilia and the rise of medical anthropology in the Netherlands / Sjaak van der Geest with vignette by Sylvie Fainzang -- Itineraries and specificities of Italian medical anthropology / Tullio Seppilli -- Before and after fieldwork : ingredients for an ethnography of illness / Gilbert Lewis with vignette by Jean Benoist -- What about Ethnomedizin? : reflections on the early days of medical anthropologies in German-speaking countries / Ruth Kutalek, Verena C. Münzemeier and Armin Prinz with vignettes by Hansjörg Dilger, Peter van Eeuwijk, and Bernhard Hadolt -- Medical anthropology in Europe - quo vadis? / Elisabeth Hsu -- Chronicity and control : framing 'noncommunicable diseases' in Africa / Susan Reynolds Whyte -- 'I am also a human being!' : antiretroviral treatment in local moral worlds / Dominik Mattes -- 'When there were only gods, then there was no disease, no need for doctors' : forsaken deities and weakened bodies in the Indian Himalayas / Serena Bindi -- Second nature : on Gramsci's anthropology / Giovanni Pizza -- Of divinity connaissance in South-Saharan Africa : the bodiliness of perception, inter-subjectivity and inter-world resonance / René Devisch -- Health care decisions by Sukuma 'peasant intellectuals' : a case of radical empiricism? / Koen Stroeken.