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In Medical Anthropololgy at the Intersections, leading figures in medical anthropology reflect on the field s past, present, and future, considering how it has developed dynamically in relation to activism, other anthropological subfields, and other disciplines.

Medical anthropology. --- Medical anthropology --- Study and teaching. --- Research.

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How does contemporary science contribute to our understanding about what it means to be women or men? What are the social implications of scientific claims about differences between "male" and "female" brains, hormones, and genes? How does culture influence scientific and medical research and its findings about human sexuality, especially so-called normal and deviant desires and behaviors? Gender and the Science of Difference examines how contemporary science shapes and is shaped by gender ideals and images. Prior scholarship has illustrated how past cultures of science were infused with patriarchal norms and values that influenced the kinds of research that was conducted and the interpretation of findings about differences between men and women. This interdisciplinary volume presents empirical inquiries into today's science, including examples of gendered scientific inquiry and medical interventions and research. It analyzes how scientific and medical knowledge produces gender norms through an emphasis on sex differences, and includes both U.S. and non-U.S. cases and examples.

Politics. --- Gender Identity. --- Cultural Characteristics. --- Sex Factors. --- Human biology --- Sex (Biology) --- Sex differences --- Sex differences. --- Biology --- Physical anthropology --- Sex --- Sex (Physiology) --- Gender differences --- Sexual dimorphism in humans --- Sex differentiation --- Factor, Sex --- Factors, Sex --- Sex Factor --- Ethnic Boundary Maintenance --- Boundary Maintenance, Ethnic --- Boundary Maintenances, Ethnic --- Characteristic, Cultural --- Characteristics, Cultural --- Cultural Characteristic --- Ethnic Boundary Maintenances --- Maintenance, Ethnic Boundary --- Maintenances, Ethnic Boundary --- Gender --- Gender Identities --- Identity, Gender --- Transgender Persons --- Conservatism --- Decentralization --- Liberalism --- Political Factors --- Voting --- Political Activity --- Activities, Political --- Activity, Political --- Factor, Political --- Factors, Political --- Political Activities --- Political Factor --- Dissent and Disputes --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Physiological aspects

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In recent decades, the North American public has pursued an inspirational vision of successful aging-striving through medical technique and individual effort to eradicate the declines, vulnerabilities, and dependencies previously commonly associated with old age. On the face of it, this bold new vision of successful, healthy, and active aging is highly appealing. But it also rests on a deep cultural discomfort with aging and being old. The contributors to Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession explore how the successful aging movement is playing out across five continents. Their chapters investigate a variety of people, including Catholic nuns in the United States; Hindu ashram dwellers; older American women seeking plastic surgery; aging African-American lesbians and gay men in the District of Columbia; Chicago home health care workers and their aging clients; Mexican men foregoing Viagra; dementia and Alzheimer sufferers in the United States and Brazil; and aging policies in Denmark, Poland, India, China, Japan, and Uganda. This book offers a fresh look at a major cultural and public health movement of our time, questioning what has become for many a taken-for-granted goal-aging in a way that almost denies aging itself.

Aging --- Older people --- Age --- Ageing --- Senescence --- Developmental biology --- Gerontology --- Longevity --- Age factors in disease --- Social aspects --- Physiological effect --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:316.7C121 --- #SBIB:316.334.3M20 --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Cultuursociologie: gedragspatronen, levensstijl --- Sociale epidemiologie en etiologie: sociale aspecten van ziekte en gezondheid --- Altenpolitik. --- Alter. --- Altern. --- Erfolgsbewertung. --- Gerontologie. --- Older people. --- Sozialpolitik. --- Sozialwissenschaften. --- Vergleichende Forschung. --- Social aspects.