Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xiii
4. Introduction: A Concept Note 1
5. Section 1. Natality, Sexuality, Reproduction
6. 1. Maternal Mortality, Technological Innovations, and Therapeutic Strategies 47
7. 2. Conceiving Life and Death: Stem Cell Technologies and Assisted Conception in India and the Middle East 67
8. 3. The Pregnant Hijra: Laughter, Dead Babies, and Invaluable Love 83
9. 4. New Lives for Children: Adoption Documents and the Law in Central Mexico 100
10. 5. Transnational Adoption and (Im)possible Lives 114
11. 6. “Forced Pregnancy,” Humanitarian Access to Reproductive Rights, and Locating “Life” within the Powers of “Death” 130
12. 7. Bleeding Dreams: Miscarriage and the Bindings of the Unborn in the Palestinian Refugee Community of Tyre, South Lebanon 143
13. Section 2. Medical, Legal, and Pharmaceutical Spaces
14. 8. Waiting and the Architecture of Care 167
15. 9. The Social Phenomenology of the Next Epidemic: Pain and the Politics of Relief in Botswana’s Cancer Ward 185
16. 10. Living and Dying in Mental Health: Guns, Race, and the History of Schizophrenic Violence 205
17. 11. The Wealth of Populations: Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Rural Central China 217
18. 12. Living and Dying with Mycobacteria: Tuberculosis and the Regulation of Anti-tuberculous Drugs in Nepal 232
19. 13. The Juridical Hospital 251
20. 14. The Right of Recovery 270
21. 15. Just Living: Law, Life, Livelihood, and Sexual Assault 289
22. 16. “If You Remember, You Can’t Live”: Trauma, Insecurity, and the F/utility of “PTSD” in Haiti 301
23. 17. Death as a Resource for Life 316
24. Section 3. Healing: Religious and Secular Bodies
25. 18. Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics 337
26. 19. Nonself Help: How Immunology Might Reframe the Enlightenment 354
27. 20. Secular Histories, Saintly Returns: Death and Devotion in Modern Turkey 367
28. 21. The Good and the Bad Breast: Cosmetic Surgery and Breast Cancer 382
29. 22. Attachments of Life: Intimacy, Genital Injury, and the Flesh of the U.S. Soldier Body 399
30. 23. Key Acts: Organ Transplantation and Subjectivities in the Public Sphere 418
31. 24. Life, Death, and Reverie: Method in a Congolese Medical History 431
32. Section 4. Precarious Lives
33. 25. Life and Concept 449
34. 26. Never Quite Given: Calling into Question the Relation between Person and World in Postinvasion Iraq 463
35. 27. Mourning, Grief, and the Loss of Politics in Palestine: The Unvoiced Effects of Military Occupation in the West Bank 475
36. 28. Echoes of a Death: Violence, Endurance, and the Experiences of Loss 493
37. 29. Walking Through: Movement, Schizophrenia, and the Vicissitudes of Presence 510
38. 30. “Not Dead Yet”: Changing Disability Imaginaries in the Twenty-First Century 525
39. 31. Suffering from Evidence: Expertise, Racial Health Disparities, and the Case of Jerry 542
40. 32. “God Isn’t Finished with This City Yet”: Disputing Katrina-Related Deaths in Postdisaster New Orleans 559
41. 33. Hunger and Thirst: Crises at Varying Thresholds of Life 576
42. 34. “Tibet on Fire”: Self-Immolation, Affect, and the Global “N of 1” 599
43. Section 5. Death and Dying
44. 35. After Life 629
45. 36. A Good Death, Recorded 648
46. 37. Lonely Death: Possibilities for a Not-Yet Sociality 662
47. 38. Chemonotes 675
48. 39. The Experience of Death in a Dutch Nursing Home: On Touching the Other 696
49. 40. Life beside Itself 712
50. 41. Traces of Destruction and the Thread of Continuity in Postgenocide Cambodia 729
51. 42. Corpus Vile: Death and Expendable Youth in Urban Congo 743
52. 43. The Value of Life and the Worth of Lives 770
53. 44. The Evolution of Mortality Rates by Sex: The Experiences of the Rich and the Uncertainties of the Not-So-Rich 784
54. Contributors 823
55. Index 829