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Acknowledgments. About the Editors. Introduction. Part I: Antecedents. Introduction. 1. Massage in Melanesia ( W. H. R. Rivers ). 2. The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events ( E. E. Evans-Pritchard ). 3. Muchona the Hornet, Interpreter of Religion ( Victor Turner ). 4. The Ojibwa Self and Its Behavioral Environment ( Irving A. Hallowell ). 5. The Charity Physician ( Rudolf Virchow ). 6. The Role of Beliefs and Customs in Sanitation Programs ( Benjamin Paul ). 7. Introduction to Asian Medical Systems ( Charles Leslie ). 8. Medical Anthropology and the Problem of Belief ( Byron J. Good ). Part II: Illness and Narrative, Body and Experience. Introduction. 9. Medicine's Symbolic Reality: On a Central Problem in the Philosophy of Medicine ( Arthur M. Kleinman ). 10. Elements of Charismatic Persuasion and Healing ( Thomas J. Csordas ). 11. The Thickness of Being: Intentional Worlds, Strategies of Identity, and Experience Among Schizophrenics ( Ellen Corin ). 12. The Concept of Therapeutic "Emplotment" ( Cheryl Mattingly ). 13. Myths/Histories/Lives ( Michael Jackson ). 14. The State Construction of Affect: Political Ethos and Mental Health Among Salvadoran Refugees ( Janis Hunter Jenkins ). 15. Struggling Along: The Possibilities for Experience Among the Homeless Mentally Ill ( Robert Desjarlais ). Part III: Governmentalities and Biological Citizenship. Introduction. 16. Dreaming of Psychiatric Citizenship: A Case Study of Supermax Confinement ( Lorna A. Rhodes ). 17. Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations ( Adriana Petryna ). 18. Human Pharmakon: Symptoms, Technologies, Subjectivities ( Joao Biehl ). 19. The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed ( Veena Das ). 20. Where Ethics and Politics Meet: The Violence of Humanitarianism in France ( Miriam Ticktin ). Part IV: The Biotechnical Embrace. Introduction. 21. The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients ( Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good ). 22. Where It Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation ( Lawrence Cohen ). 23. "Robin Hood" of Techno-Turkey or Organ Trafficking in the State of Ethical Beings ( Aslihan Sanal ). 24. Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions ( Marcia C. Inhorn ). 25. AIDS in 2006: Moving toward One World, One Hope? ( Jim Yong Kim and Paul Farmer ). Part V: Biosciences, Biotechnologies. Introduction. 26. Dr. Judah Folkman's Decalogue and Network Analysis ( Michael M. J. Fischer ). 27. Beyond Nature and Culture: Modes of Reasoning in the Age of Molecular Biology and Medicine ( Hans-Jorg Rheinberger ). 28. Immortality, In Vitro: A History of the HeLa Cell Line ( Hannah Landecker ). 29. A Digital Image of the Category of the Person ( Joseph Dumit ). 30. Experimental Values: Indian Clinical Trials and Surplus Health ( Kaushik Sunder Rajan ). Part VI: Global Health, Global Medicine. Introduction. 31. Medical Anthropology and International Health Planning ( George M. Foster ). 32. Anthropology and Global Health ( Craig R. Janes and Kitty K. Corbett ). 33. Mot Luuk Problems in Northeast Thailand: Why Women's Own Health Concerns Matter as Much as Disease Rates ( Pimpawun Boonmongkon, Mark Nichter, and Jen Pylypa ). 34. The New Malaise: Medical Ethics and Social Rights in the Global Era ( Paul Farmer ). 35. Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life ( Didier Fassin ). Part VII: Postcolonial Disorders. Introduction. 36. Amuk in Java: Madness and Violence in Indonesian Politics ( Byron Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good ). 37. The Political Economy of "Trauma" in Haiti in the Democratic Era of Insecurity ( Erica James ). 38. Contract of Mutual (In)Difference: Governance and the Humanitarian Apparatus in Contemporary Albania and Kosovo ( Mariella Pandolfi ). 39. Darfur through a Shoah Lens: Sudanese Asylum Seekers, Unruly Biopolitical Dramas, and the Politics of Humanitarian Compassion in Israel ( Sarah S. Willen ). 40. The Elegiac Addict: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject ( Angela Garcia ). Index.