15 The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Determinations of Self in Immune System Discourse

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface IX
4. Part One The Cultural Construction of Childbirth
5. Introduction to Part One 1
6. 1 Traditional Birth Attendants in Rural North India: The Social Organization of Childbearing 7
7. 2 Analysis of a Dialogue on Risks in Childbirth: Clinicians, Epidemiologists, and Inuit Women 32
8. 3 Accounting for Amniocentesis 55
9. Part Two The Production of Medical Knowledge
10. Introduction to Part Two 79
11. 4 "Learning Medicine": The Constructing of Medical Knowledge at Harvard Medical School 81
12. 5 A Description of How Ideology Shapes Knowledge of a Mental Disorder (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder) 108
13. 6 The Shape of Action: Practice in Public Psychiatry 129
14. Part Three Contested Knowledge and Modes of Understanding
15. Introduction to Part Three 147
16. 7 Lay Medical Knowledge in an African Context 150
17. 8 Biomedical Psychiatry as an Object for a Critical Medical Anthropology 166
18. 9 Double Standards of Treatment Evaluation 189
19. 10 Risk: Anthropological and Epidemiological Narratives of Prevention 219
20. Part Four Constructing the Illness Experience
21. Introduction to Part Four 245
22. 11 Identity, Disability, and Schizophrenia: The Problem of Chronicity 247
23. 12 Social Aspects of Chagas Disease 287
24. Part Five Body Politics—Past and Present
25. Introduction to Part Five 303
26. 13 The Diseased Heart of Africa: Medicine, Colonialism, and the Black Body 305
27. 14 The Politics of Mid-Life and Menopause: Ideologies for the Second Sex in North America and Japan 330
28. 15 The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Determinations of Self in Immune System Discourse 364
29. Contributors 411
30. Index 417