The radically humanistic essays in Arc of Interference refigure our sense of the real, the ethical, and the political in the face of mounting social and planetary upheavals. Creatively assembled around Arthur Kleinman's medical anthropological arc and eschewing hegemonic modes of intervention, the essays advance the notion of a care-ful ethnographic praxis of interference. To interfere is to dislodge ideals of naturalness, blast enduring binaries (human/nonhuman, self/other, us/them), and redirect technocratic agendas while summoning relational knowledge and the will to create community. The book's multiple ethnographic arcs of interference provide a vital conceptual toolkit for today's world and a badly needed moral perch from which to peer toward just horizons.

Contributors. Vincanne Adams, João Biehl, Davíd Carrasco, Lawrence Cohen, Jean Comaroff, Robert Desjarlais, Paul Farmer, Marcia Inhorn, Janis H. Jenkins, David S. Jones, Salmaan Keshavjee, Arthur Kleinman, Margaret Lock, Adriana Petryna

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Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Year

2023

Print ISBN

9781478019800, 9781478017097

eBook ISBN

9781478024378

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Public Health, Administration & Care

Index

Social Sciences

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Contents
Foreword | Against the Grain: Medical Anthropology in the Anthropocene | Paul Farmer
Introduction | Arc of Interference | João Biehl and Vincanne Adams
Part I. Traversing Imperiled Worlds and Envisaging Human Futures
Part II. The Category Fallacy and Care Amid the Experts
Part III. Worlds of Biotechnological Promise and the Plasticity of Self and Power
Part IV. Tracing Arts of Living (Or, Anthropologies after Hope Has Departed)
Afterword: Lessons Learned from the Ethnography of Care | Arthur Kleinman
In Memoriam
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

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