Kim Lock: 3 books
by Kim Lock
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
A life lived in the shadows. A love that should never have been hidden.
In the small town of Gawler, South Australia, the tang of cut grass and eucalyptus mingles on the warm air. The neat houses perched under the big gum trees on Church Street have been home to many over the years. Years of...
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...