Subjectivity: Ethnographic InvestigationsJoão Guilherme Biehl, Byron Good, Arthur Kleinman This innovative volume is an extended intellectual conversation about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. Examining the ethnography of the modern subject, this preeminent group of scholars probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western and non-Western societies. Contributors consider what happens to individual subjectivity when stable or imagined environments such as nations and communities are transformed or displaced by free trade economics, terrorism, and war; how new information and medical technologies reshape the relation one has to oneself; and which forms of subjectivity and life possibilities are produced against a world in pieces. The transdisciplinary conversation includes anthropologists, historians of science, psychologists, a literary critic, a philosopher, physicians, and an economist. The authors touch on how we think and write about contingency, human agency, and ethics today. |
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... Medicine Eric L. Krakauer 14. A Life: Between Psychiatric Drugs and Social Abandonment João Biehl Epilogue. To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable: Return(s) to Subjectivities Michael M. J. Fischer Index 179 235 243 273 315 ...
... Medicine Eric L. Krakauer 14. A Life: Between Psychiatric Drugs and Social Abandonment João Biehl Epilogue. To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable: Return(s) to Subjectivities Michael M. J. Fischer Index 179 235 243 273 315 ...
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Contents
Rethinking Subjectivity | 1 |
PART I TRANSFORMATIONS IN SOCIAL EXPERIENCE AND SUBJECTIVITY | 25 |
The Many Faces of Subjectivity | 34 |
How Individuals Change in the Context of Societal Transformation | 52 |
Illness and the Lifeworld among the Urban Poor | 66 |
4 Anthropological Observation and SelfFormation | 98 |
PART II POLITICAL SUBJECTS | 119 |
5 Hamlet in Purgatory | 128 |
Psychosis Mad Violence and Subjectivity in Indonesia | 243 |
The ExCentricity of the Subject | 273 |
Madness and the Social Person in the Interstices of the City | 315 |
PART IV LIFE TECHNOLOGIES | 341 |
11 Whole Bodies Whole Persons? Cultural Studies Psychoanalysis and Biology | 352 |
Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients | 362 |
Subjectivity LifeSustaining Treatment and Palliative Medicine | 381 |
Between Psychiatric Drugs and Social Abandonment | 397 |
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