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| Introduction | |
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| Improving Global Health: the Challenge | |
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| Biomedicine as Technology | |
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| Does Culture Exist? | |
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| A Word about Ethnography | |
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| Outline of Chapters | |
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| Technologies and Bodies in Context | |
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| Biomedical Technologies in Practice | |
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| Technological Mastery of the Natural World and Human Development | |
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| Technology and Boundary Crossings | |
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| Biomedicine as Technology: some Implications | |
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| Technologies of Bodily Governance | |
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| Technologies of the Self | |
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| The power of biological reductionism | |
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| Techno/Biologicals | |
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| The Normal Body | |
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| Cholera in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Representing the Natural Order | |
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| Truth to nature | |
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| The natural body | |
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| A numerical approach | |
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| Other natures | |
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| Interpreting the body | |
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| How normal became possible | |
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| When normal does not exist | |
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| Problems with making normal | |
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| Pathologizing the "normal" | |
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| Limitations to biomedical "objectivity" | |
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| Better than well? | |
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| Anthropologies of Medicine | |
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| The Body Social | |
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| Contextualizing Medical Knowledge | |
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| Medical Pluralism | |
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| The Modernization of "Traditional" Medicine | |
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| Medical Hybridization | |
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| Biodiversity and Indigenous Medical Knowledge | |
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| Self-Medication | |
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| A Short History of Medicalization | |
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| Opposition to Medicalization | |
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| The Social Construction of Illness and Disease | |
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| The Politics of Medicalization | |
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| Beyond Medicalization? | |
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| In Pursuit of Health | |
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| In Summary | |
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| Local Biologies and Human Difference | |
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| The End of Menstruation | |
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| Local biologies | |
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| Rethinking Biology in the Midst of Life's Complexity | |
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| Is Biology Real? | |
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| Kuru and Endo-Cannibalism | |
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| Racism and Birth Weight of Microbes and Humans | |
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| Antibiotics and Resistant Microbes | |
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| Debates about the Origin of HIV | |
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| In summary | |
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| The Biological Standard | |
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| The Right Population | |
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| The Origins of Population as a "Problem" | |
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| Addressing the "problem" of population | |
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| Improving the Stock of Nations | |
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| Alternative Modernity and Indian Family Planning | |
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| The One Child Policy | |
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| Biomedical technology and sex selection | |
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| Contextualizing sex selection: India and "family balancing" | |
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| Contextualizing sex selection: disappeared girls in China | |
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| Sex selection in a global context | |
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| Reproducing Nationalism | |
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| Summary | |
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| Colonial Disease and Biological Commensurability | |
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| An anthropological perspective on global biomedicine | |
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| Biomedicine as a tool of Empire | |
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| Acclimatization and racial difference | |
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| Colonial epidemics: Microbial theories prove their worth | |
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| Resistance to the biomedicalisation of epidemics | |
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| Microbiology as a global standard | |
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| Infertility and childbirth as critical events | |
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| Birthing in the Belgian Congo | |
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| A global practice of fertility control | |
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| Intimate colonialism: the biomedicalization of domesticity | |
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| Biomedicine, evangelism and consciousness | |
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| The biological standardization of hunger | |
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| The colonial discovery of malnutrition | |
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| Albumin as surplus | |
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| The biologization of salvation | |
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| In Summary | |
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| Grounds for Comparison: Biology and Human Experiments | |
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| The laboratory as the site of comparison | |
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| The colonial laboratoryExperimental bodies | |
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| Rise of the clinical trial | |
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| Taming difference by chance | |
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| The alchemy of the randomized controlled trial | |
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| The problem of generalizability | |
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| Medical standardization and contested evidence | |
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| Globalizing Clinical Research | |
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| Creating markets for biomedical technologies in developing countries | |
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| Testing biomedical interventions for the world's poor | |
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| Disputes over perinatal HIV transmission trials | |
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| What should count as significant evidence? | |
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| Living with Vampires: perceptions of research | |
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| Experimental communities: social relations | |
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| In summary | |
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| Moral Boundaries and Human Transformations | |
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| Who owns the body? | |
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| Commodification of Human Biologicals | |
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| Objects of Worth and their Alienation | |
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| The Wealth of Inalienable Goods | |
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| A BioEconomy of Human Biologicals | |
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| Who Owns the Body? | |
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| The Commodification of Eggs and Sperm | |
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| Immortalized Cell Lines | |
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| The Exotic Other | |
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| Biological Databases | |
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| Concluding Comments | |
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| The Social Life of Organs | |
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| Bioavailability -- Who becomes a donor? | |
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| A Shortage of Organs | |
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| Inventing a New Death | |
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| The Good-as-Dead | |
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| Struggling for National Consensus | |
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| The Social Life of Human Organs | |
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| When Resources are Short | |
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| Altruisim, Entitlement, and Commodification | |
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| Kinship, Infertility, and Assisted Reproduction | |
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| Assisted Reproductive Technologies | |
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| Problematizing Infertility Figures | |
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| From Underfertility to Overfertility | |
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| Reproducing Culture | |
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| Assisted Reproduction in the United States | |
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| Assisted Reproduction in Egypt | |
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| Assisted Reproduction in Israel | |
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| ART in Global Perspective | |
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| The Matter of the Self | |
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| The Discovery of an Unconscious Self | |
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| Unlocking the pathogenic secret | |
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| The pathogenic secret as a technology of the self | |
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| The making of post-traumatic stress disorder | |
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| The practitioner-self | |
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| The sources of therapeutic efficacy | |
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| The self's therapeutic powers | |
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| Technologies of health promotion | |
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| Technologies of empowerment | |
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| Technologies of self-help | |
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| Confessional technologies | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Elusive Agents and Moral Disruptions | |
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| Genes as embodied risk | |
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| From Hazard to Embodied Risk | |
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| From Generation to Re-Writing Life | |
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| Genomic Hype | |
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| Geneticization | |
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| Genetic Testing and Human Contingency | |
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| Genetic Citizenship and Future Promise in America | |
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| Biosociality and the Affiliation of Genes | |
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| Genetic Screening | |
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| Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis | |
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| Genomics, epigenomics, and uncertain futures | |
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| De-Throning the Gene? | |
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| Eclipse of the Genotype-Phenotype Dogma | |
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| Epigenetics: beyond genetic determinism | |
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| Epigenomics | |
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| The APOE Gene and Alzheimer's Disease | |
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| Genetic Testing for Late Onset Alzheimer's Disease | |
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| Interpretations of Risk Estimates | |
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| Learning (again) to live with Uncertainty | |
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| Human Difference Revisited | |
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| Molecular Biology and Racial Politics | |
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| The molecularization of race | |
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| Commodifying "race" and ancestry | |
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| Looping effects | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |