Living and dying in the contemporary world : a compendium / Veena Das and Clara Han, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book comprises forty-four chapters by scholars whose ethnographic and historical work is conducted around the globe, including South Asia, East Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Bringing together the work of established scholars with the vibrant voices of younger scholars, Living and Dying in the Contemporary World will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, health scientists, scholars of religion, and all who are curious about how to relate to the rapidly changing institutions and experiences in an ever more connected world"--Provided by publisher

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Concept Note / Han, Clara / Das, Veena -- Section 1. Natality, Sexuality, Reproduction -- 1. Maternal Mortality, Technological Innovations, and Therapeutic Strategies -- 2. Conceiving Life and Death: Stem Cell Technologies and Assisted Conception in India and the Middle East / Bharadwaj, Aditya / Inhorn, Marcia C. -- 3. The Pregnant Hijra: Laughter, Dead Babies, and Invaluable Love / Saria, Vaibhav -- 4. New Lives for Children: Adoption Documents and the Law in Central Mexico / Reyes Kipp, Anaid Citlalli -- 5. Transnational Adoption and (Im)possible Lives / Kim, Eleana -- 6. "Forced Pregnancy," Humanitarian Access to Reproductive Rights, and Locating "Life" within the Powers of "Death" / Mookherjee, Nayanika -- 7. Bleeding Dreams: Miscarriage and the Bindings of the Unborn in the Palestinian Refugee Community of Tyre, South Lebanon / Perdigon, Sylvain -- Section 2. Medical, Legal, and Pharmaceutical Spaces -- 8. Waiting and the Architecture of Care / Day, Sophie -- 9. The Social Phenomenology of the Next Epidemic: Pain and the Politics of Relief in Botswana's Cancer Ward / Livingston, Julie -- 10. Living and Dying in Mental Health: Guns, Race, and the History of Schizophrenic Violence / Metzl, Jonathan M. -- 11. The Wealth of Populations: Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Rural Central China / Jing, Shao -- 12. Living and Dying with Mycobacteria: Tuberculosis and the Regulation of Anti-tuberculous Drugs in Nepal / Harper, Ian / Rawal, Nabin -- 13. The Juridical Hospital / Biehl, João -- 14. The Right of Recovery / Petryna, Adriana -- 15. Just Living: Law, Life, Livelihood, and Sexual Assault / Mulla, Sameena -- 16. "If You Remember, You Can't Live": Trauma, Insecurity, and the F/utility of "PTSD" in Haiti / James, Erica Caple -- 17. Death as a Resource for Life / Garcia, Angela -- Section 3. Healing: Religious and Secular Bodies -- 18. Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics / Asad, Talal -- 19. Nonself Help: How Immunology Might Reframe the Enlightenment / Napier, A. David -- 20. Secular Histories, Saintly Returns: Death and Devotion in Modern Turkey / Dole, Christopher -- 21. The Good and the Bad Breast: Cosmetic Surgery and Breast Cancer / Wegenstein, Bernadette -- 22. Attachments of Life: Intimacy, Genital Injury, and the Flesh of the U.S. Soldier Body / Wool, Zoë H. -- 23. Key Acts: Organ Transplantation and Subjectivities in the Public Sphere / Sanal, Aslıhan -- 24. Life, Death, and Reverie: Method in a Congolese Medical History / Hunt, Nancy Rose -- Section 4. Precarious Lives -- 25. Life and Concept / Jackson, Michael D. -- 26. Never Quite Given: Calling into Question the Relation between Person and World in Postinvasion Iraq / Al-Mohammad, Hayder -- 27. Mourning, Grief, and the Loss of Politics in Palestine: The Unvoiced Effects of Military Occupation in the West Bank / Buch Segal, Lotte -- 28. Echoes of a Death: Violence, Endurance, and the Experiences of Loss / Han, Clara -- 29. Walking Through: Movement, Schizophrenia, and the Vicissitudes of Presence / Pinto, Sarah -- 30. "Not Dead Yet": Changing Disability Imaginaries in the Twenty-First Century / Ginsburg, Faye / Rapp, Rayna -- 31. Suffering from Evidence: Expertise, Racial Health Disparities, and the Case of Jerry / Moxley Rouse, Carolyn -- 32. "God Isn't Finished with This City Yet": Disputing Katrina-Related Deaths in Postdisaster New Orleans / Lovell, Anne M. -- 33. Hunger and Thirst: Crises at Varying Thresholds of Life / Singh, Bhrigupati -- 34. "Tibet on Fire": Self-Immolation, Affect, and the Global "N of 1" / Adams, Vincanne -- Section 5. Death and Dying -- 35. After Life / Lambek, Michael -- 36. A Good Death, Recorded / Desjarlais, Robert -- 37. Lonely Death: Possibilities for a Not-Yet Sociality / Allison, Anne -- 38. Chemonotes / Marks, Harry M. -- 39. The Experience of Death in a Dutch Nursing Home: On Touching the Other / Chatterji, Roma -- 40. Life beside Itself / Stevenson, Lisa -- 41. Traces of Destruction and the Thread of Continuity in Postgenocide Cambodia / Guillou, Anne Yvonne -- 42. Corpus Vile: Death and Expendable Youth in Urban Congo / De Boeck, Filip -- 43. The Value of Life and the Worth of Lives / Fassin, Didier -- 44. The Evolution of Mortality Rates by Sex: The Experiences of the Rich and the Uncertainties of the Not-So-Rich / Ali, Rabia / Das, Jishnu -- Contributors -- Index

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