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Making Bodies Kosher

The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England
  • Ben Kasstan
  • Funded by: Wellcome Trust
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2019
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About this book

Minority populations are often regarded as being ‘hard to reach’ and evading state expectations of health protection. This ethnographic and archival study analyses how devout Jews in Britain negotiate healthcare services to preserve the reproduction of culture and continuity. This book demonstrates how the transformative and transgressive possibilities of technology reveal multiple pursuits of protection between this religious minority and the state. Making Bodies Kosher advances theoretical perspectives of immunity, and sits at the intersection of medical anthropology, social history and the study of religions.

Author / Editor information

Ben Kasstan is a medical anthropologist in the Department of Global Health and Development at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Publishing information
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eBook published on:
June 20, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9781789202304
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Main content:
286
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