Vinh Nguyen: 5 books
Looking Back on the Vietnam War
Twenty-first-Century Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
More than forty years have passed since the official end of the Vietnam War, yet the war’s legacies endure. Its history and iconography still provide fodder for film and fiction, communities of war refugees have spawned a wide Vietnamese diaspora, and the United States military remains embroiled...
The Republic of Therapy
Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa. Drawing on his experiences as a physician and anthropologist in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Vinh-Kim Nguyen...
by Margaret Lock, Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician and...
by Margaret Lock, Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of material bodies with history, environment, culture, and politics. Drawing on historical and ethnographic...
La médecine du tri. Histoire, éthique, anthropologie
Les Cahiers du Centre Georges Canguilhem, N° 6
Language: French
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Ce livre propose une réflexion collective sur le triage en médecine, du XIXe au XXIe siècle. Il se place au plus près de ses pratiques, dans les salles d’attente des généralistes, au sein des bureaucraties sanitaires, sur les théâtres des catastrophes humanitaires. Le triage y constitue...