Ebook: An anthropology of biomedicine

Introduction -- Part I: technologies and bodies in context -- 1. Biomedical technologies in practice -- 2. The normal body -- 3. Anthropologies of medicine -- 4. Local biologies and human difference -- Part II: the biological standard -- 5. The right population -- 6. Colonial disease and biological commensurability -- 7. Grounds for comparison: biology and human experience -- Part III: moral boundaries and human transformations -- 8. Who owns the body? -- The social life of organs -- Kinship, infertility, and assisted reproduction -- Part IV: elusive agents and moral disruptions -- 11. The matter of self -- 12. Genes as embodied risk -- 13. Genomics, epigenomics, and uncertain futures -- 14. Human difference revisited -- Epilogue