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Medical Materialities

Medical Materialities investigates possible points of cross-fertilisation between medical anthropology and material culture studies, and considers the successes and limitations of both sub-disciplines as they attempt to understand places, practices, methods, and cultures of healing. The editors present and expand upon a definition of medical materiality, namely the social impact of the agency of often mundane, at times non-clinical, materials within contexts of health and illness, as caused by the properties and affordances of this material. The chapters address material culture in various clinical and biomedical contexts and in discussions that link the body and healing. The diverse ethnographic case studies provide valuable insight into the way cultures of medicine are understood and practised.

Aaron Parkhurst is a lecturer in Biosocial Medical Anthropology at University College London, UK, with a focus on the anthropology of the human body, and the anthropology and bioethics of emerging technology.

Timothy Carroll is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology at University College London, UK, studying end-of-life and post-mortem care amongst Orthodox Christians in Britain.

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Medical Materialities

Toward a Material Culture of Medical Anthropology

Edited by Aaron Parkhurst and Timothy Carroll

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Medical Materialities

Toward a Material Culture of Medical Anthropology

Edited by Aaron Parkhurst and Timothy Carroll

First published 2019

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Contents

TIMOTHY CARROLL AND AARON PARKHURST

Part I
Flesh and fluids

REBECCA LYNCH

IGNACIA ARTEAGA

CAROLINE ACKLEY

REBECCA WILLIAMS

Part II
Infrastructures of care

AARON PARKHURST

SOPHIE DUCKWORTH

JESSE BIA

KELLY FAGAN ROBINSON

Part III
Health publics

ROLAND LITTLEWOOD

DAVID JEEVENDRAMPILLAI

TIMOTHY CARROLL

DALIA ISKANDER

Part IV
Responses

SAHRA GIBBON

GRAEME WERE

Caroline Ackley received her PhD in Anthropology from University College London and is currently a Research Fellow with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her PhD explored Somali womens relationships with their body, other women in the community, the divine, and with their husbands. Her current research is on child and maternal health in Eastern Ethiopia. She is interested in life course development, gendered bodies and body modification, ethics and morality, post-colonialism, and the Anthropology of Islam.

Ignacia Arteaga is an affiliated lecturer and teaching associate in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Her PhD (UCL) examined the material, ethical, and affective dimensions of colorectal cancer treatments, and it described the ways in which patients improvised ways of carrying on with life inside and outside a cancer clinic in London. Beyond cancer care, she is also interested in using anthropological approaches to illuminate issues of inequality, affect, and human-animal relations.

Jesse Bia is a medical anthropologist and a specialist in the Anthropology of Japan. His research expertise includes perceptions of cellular biotechnology, pluralities of Japanese medicine (including kampo), elderly healthcare, ritual pollution (kegare), bioethics, organ transplantation, and shinbutsu-shg. Based in the Greater Tokyo Area, his current work utilises a socio-historical methodology to examine the impacts of regenerative medicine and cellular therapies in Japanese society, focusing primarily on the experiences and narratives of patients, physicians, and nurses. He was recently hosted as a Visiting Researcher at Osaka University and conducted two years of multi-sited fieldwork sponsored by an Inoue Masaru Grant.

Timothy Carroll is a social anthropologist of material culture and conducts research amongst Eastern Orthodox Christians. Carrolls research has been conducted principally in the UK and the US, looking at Eastern Christians in Western contexts. He is currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London, studying end-of-life and post-mortem care amongst Orthodox Christians in Britain. His research engages the role of the body as a cultural artefact within medical, ritual, and art contexts. He is author of Orthodox Christian Material Culture: Of People and Things in the Making of Heaven (Routledge 2018).

Sophie Duckworth received her medical degree from University College London (UCL) and is currently undertaking specialist training in General Practice in the UK. Her interests are within the field of Palliative Medicine and the culture of care in the clinical encounter, and she has recently completed a one-year placement in a rural community hospice in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. She has a long-term interest in the social and palliative dimensions of tea, and she completed her MSc in Medical Anthropology at UCL in 2016. Her research examines the dimensions of care expressed through the cultural practice of offering tea in hospital wards in the UK.

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