Contents:
1. Introduction - From documenting medical pluralism to critical interpretations of globalized health knowledge, policies, and practices
Mark Nichter and
Margaret Lock 2. Governing bodies in new order Indonesia
Steve Ferzacca 3. Too bold, too hot: Crossing 'culture' in AIDS prevention in Nepal
Stacy Leigh Pigg 4. The social relations of therapy management
Mark Nichter 5.Making sense out of modernity
Marina Roseman 6. A return to scientific racism in medical social sciences: the case of sexuality and the AIDS epidemic in Africa
Gilles Bibeau and
Duncan Pedersen 7. 'We five, our twenty-five': Myths of population out of control in contemporary India
Patricia Jeffrey and
Roger Jeffrey 8. Establishing proof: translating 'science' and the state in Tibetan medicine
Vincanne Adams 9. Notes on the evolution of evolutionary psychiatry
Allan Young 10. Utopias of health, eugenics, and germline engineering
Margaret Lock 11. Killing and healing revisited: on cultural difference, warfare, and sacrifice
Margaret Trawick