Subjectivity

Joao Biehl is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. He is the author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (UC Press) and Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival. His website is www.joaobiehl.net. Byron Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Departments of Social Medicine and Anthropology at Harvard University. He is the author of Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective and co-editor of several volumes, including Culture and Depression (UC Press). Arthur Kleinman is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is the author of several books, including Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture; Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine (both from UC Press); and, most recently, What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life amidst Uncertainty and Danger. Among his coedited volumes are Social Suffering (UC Press) and Global Pharmaceuticals.

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• Acknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity João Biehl, Byron Good, and Arthur KleinmanPART I. TRANSFORMATIONS IN SOCIAL EXPERIENCE AND SUBJECTIVITY1. The Vanishing Subject: The Many Faces of Subjectivity Amélie Oksenberg Rorty2. The Experiential Basis of Subjectivity: How Individuals Change in the Context of Societal Transformation Arthur Kleinman and Erin Fitz-Henry3. How the Body Speaks: Illness and the Lifeworld among the Urban Poor Veena Das and Ranendra K. Das4. Anthropological Observation and Self-Formation Paul RabinowPART II. POLITICAL SUBJECTS5. Hamlet in Purgatory Stephen Greenblatt6. America’s Transient Mental Illness: A Brief History of the Self-Traumatized Perpetrator Allan Young7. Violence and the Politics of Remorse: Lessons from South Africa Nancy Scheper-HughesPART III. MADNESS AND SOCIAL SUFFERING 8. The Subject of Mental Illness: Psychosis, Mad Violence, and Subjectivity in Indonesia Byron J. Good, Subandi, and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good9. The “Other” of Culture in Psychosis: The Ex-Centricity of the Subject Ellen Corin10. Hoarders and Scrappers: Madness and the Social Person in the Interstices of the City Anne M. LovellPART IV. LIFE TECHNOLOGIES 11. Whole Bodies, Whole Persons? Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis, and Biology Evelyn Fox Keller12. The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good13. “To Be Freed from the Infirmity of (the) Age”: Subjectivity, Life-Sustaining Treatment, and Palliative Medicine Eric L. Krakauer14. A Life: Between Psychiatric Drugs and Social Abandonment João BiehlEpilogue. To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable: Return(s) to Subjectivities Michael M. J. FischerIndex