Byron J. Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology, Depart­ment of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Professor in the Department of Anthropol­ogy, Harvard University.  Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.Sarah S. Willen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. She has been an NIMN Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and has taught in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good is Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and in the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

• Acknowledgments ixAbout the Editors xiiiIntroduction 1Part I Antecedents 7Introduction 91 Massage in Melanesia 15W. H. R. Rivers2 The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events 18E. E. Evans-Pritchard3 Muchona the Hornet, Interpreter of Religion 26Victor Turner4 The Ojibwa Self and Its Behavioral Environment 38Irving A. Hallowell5 The Charity Physician 47Rudolf Virchow6 The Role of Beliefs and Customs in Sanitation Programs 50Benjamin Paul7 Introduction to Asian Medical Systems 55Charles Leslie8 Medical Anthropology and the Problem of Belief 64Byron J. GoodPart II Illness and Narrative, Body and Experience 77Introduction 799 Medicine’s Symbolic Reality: On a Central Problem in the Philosophy of Medicine 85Arthur M. Kleinman10 Elements of Charismatic Persuasion and Healing 91Thomas J. Csordas11 The Thickness of Being: Intentional Worlds, Strategies of Identity, and Experience Among Schizophrenics 108Ellen Corin12 The Concept of Therapeutic ‘Emplotment’ 121Cheryl Mattingly13 Myths/Histories/Lives 137Michael Jackson14 The State Construction of Affect: Political Ethos and Mental Health Among Salvadoran Refugees 143Janis Hunter Jenkins15 Struggling Along: The Possibilities for Experience among the Homeless Mentally Ill 160Robert DesjarlaisPart III Governmentalities and Biological Citizenship 175Introduction 17716 Dreaming of Psychiatric Citizenship: A Case Study of Supermax Confinement 181Lorna A. Rhodes17 Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations 199Adriana Petryna18 Human Pharmakon: Symptoms, Technologies, Subjectivities 213João Biehl19 The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed 232Veena Das20 Where Ethics and Politics Meet: The Violence of Humanitarianism in France 245Miriam TicktinPart IV The Biotechnical Embrace 263Introduction 26521 The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients 272Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good22 Where It Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation 284Lawrence Cohen23 ‘‘Robin Hood’’ of Techno-Turkey or Organ Trafficking in the State of Ethical Beings 300Aslihan Sanal24 Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions 319Marcia C. Inhorn25 AIDS in 2006: Moving toward One World, One Hope? 327Jim Yong Kim and Paul FarmerPart V Biosciences, Biotechnologies 331Introduction 33326 Dr. Judah Folkman’s Decalogue and Network Analysis 339Michael M. J. Fischer27 Beyond Nature and Culture: Modes of Reasoning in the Age of Molecular Biology and Medicine 345Hans-Jörg Rheinberger28 Immortality, In Vitro: A History of the HeLa Cell Line 353Hannah Landecker29 A Digital Image of the Category of the Person 367Joseph Dumit30 Experimental Values: Indian Clinical Trials and Surplus Health 377Kaushik Sunder RajanPart VI Global Health, Global Medicine 389Introduction 39131 Medical Anthropology and International Health Planning 394George M. Foster32 Anthropology and Global Health 405Craig R. Janes and Kitty K. Corbett33 Mot Luuk Problems in Northeast Thailand: Why Women’s Own Health Concerns Matter as Much as Disease Rates 422Pimpawun Boonmongkon, Mark Nichter, and Jen Pylypa34 The New Malaise: Medical Ethics and Social Rights in the Global Era 437Paul Farmer35 Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life 452Didier FassinPart VII Postcolonial Disorders 467Introduction 46936 Amuk in Java: Madness and Violence in Indonesian Politics 473Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good37 The Political Economy of ‘Trauma’ in Haiti in the Democratic Era of Insecurity 481Erica James38 Contract of Mutual (In)Difference: Governance and the Humanitarian Apparatus in Contemporary Albania and Kosovo 496Mariella Pandolfi39 Darfur through a Shoah Lens: Sudanese Asylum Seekers, Unruly Biopolitical Dramas, and the Politics of Humanitarian Compassion in Israel 505Sarah S. Willen40 The Elegiac Addict: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject 522Angela GarciaIndex 540

Byron J. Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology, Depart­ment of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Professor in the Department of Anthropol­ogy, Harvard University.  Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.Sarah S. Willen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. She has been an NIMN Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and has taught in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good is Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and in the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

• Acknowledgments ixAbout the Editors xiiiIntroduction 1Part I Antecedents 7Introduction 91 Massage in Melanesia 15W. H. R. Rivers2 The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events 18E. E. Evans-Pritchard3 Muchona the Hornet, Interpreter of Religion 26Victor Turner4 The Ojibwa Self and Its Behavioral Environment 38Irving A. Hallowell5 The Charity Physician 47Rudolf Virchow6 The Role of Beliefs and Customs in Sanitation Programs 50Benjamin Paul7 Introduction to Asian Medical Systems 55Charles Leslie8 Medical Anthropology and the Problem of Belief 64Byron J. GoodPart II Illness and Narrative, Body and Experience 77Introduction 799 Medicine’s Symbolic Reality: On a Central Problem in the Philosophy of Medicine 85Arthur M. Kleinman10 Elements of Charismatic Persuasion and Healing 91Thomas J. Csordas11 The Thickness of Being: Intentional Worlds, Strategies of Identity, and Experience Among Schizophrenics 108Ellen Corin12 The Concept of Therapeutic ‘Emplotment’ 121Cheryl Mattingly13 Myths/Histories/Lives 137Michael Jackson14 The State Construction of Affect: Political Ethos and Mental Health Among Salvadoran Refugees 143Janis Hunter Jenkins15 Struggling Along: The Possibilities for Experience among the Homeless Mentally Ill 160Robert DesjarlaisPart III Governmentalities and Biological Citizenship 175Introduction 17716 Dreaming of Psychiatric Citizenship: A Case Study of Supermax Confinement 181Lorna A. Rhodes17 Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations 199Adriana Petryna18 Human Pharmakon: Symptoms, Technologies, Subjectivities 213João Biehl19 The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed 232Veena Das20 Where Ethics and Politics Meet: The Violence of Humanitarianism in France 245Miriam TicktinPart IV The Biotechnical Embrace 263Introduction 26521 The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients 272Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good22 Where It Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation 284Lawrence Cohen23 ‘‘Robin Hood’’ of Techno-Turkey or Organ Trafficking in the State of Ethical Beings 300Aslihan Sanal24 Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions 319Marcia C. Inhorn25 AIDS in 2006: Moving toward One World, One Hope? 327Jim Yong Kim and Paul FarmerPart V Biosciences, Biotechnologies 331Introduction 33326 Dr. Judah Folkman’s Decalogue and Network Analysis 339Michael M. J. Fischer27 Beyond Nature and Culture: Modes of Reasoning in the Age of Molecular Biology and Medicine 345Hans-Jörg Rheinberger28 Immortality, In Vitro: A History of the HeLa Cell Line 353Hannah Landecker29 A Digital Image of the Category of the Person 367Joseph Dumit30 Experimental Values: Indian Clinical Trials and Surplus Health 377Kaushik Sunder RajanPart VI Global Health, Global Medicine 389Introduction 39131 Medical Anthropology and International Health Planning 394George M. Foster32 Anthropology and Global Health 405Craig R. Janes and Kitty K. Corbett33 Mot Luuk Problems in Northeast Thailand: Why Women’s Own Health Concerns Matter as Much as Disease Rates 422Pimpawun Boonmongkon, Mark Nichter, and Jen Pylypa34 The New Malaise: Medical Ethics and Social Rights in the Global Era 437Paul Farmer35 Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life 452Didier FassinPart VII Postcolonial Disorders 467Introduction 46936 Amuk in Java: Madness and Violence in Indonesian Politics 473Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good37 The Political Economy of ‘Trauma’ in Haiti in the Democratic Era of Insecurity 481Erica James38 Contract of Mutual (In)Difference: Governance and the Humanitarian Apparatus in Contemporary Albania and Kosovo 496Mariella Pandolfi39 Darfur through a Shoah Lens: Sudanese Asylum Seekers, Unruly Biopolitical Dramas, and the Politics of Humanitarian Compassion in Israel 505Sarah S. Willen40 The Elegiac Addict: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject 522Angela GarciaIndex 540

Byron J. Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology, Depart­ment of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Professor in the Department of Anthropol­ogy, Harvard University.  Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.Sarah S. Willen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. She has been an NIMN Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and has taught in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good is Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and in the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

• Acknowledgments ixAbout the Editors xiiiIntroduction 1Part I Antecedents 7Introduction 91 Massage in Melanesia 15W. H. R. Rivers2 The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events 18E. E. Evans-Pritchard3 Muchona the Hornet, Interpreter of Religion 26Victor Turner4 The Ojibwa Self and Its Behavioral Environment 38Irving A. Hallowell5 The Charity Physician 47Rudolf Virchow6 The Role of Beliefs and Customs in Sanitation Programs 50Benjamin Paul7 Introduction to Asian Medical Systems 55Charles Leslie8 Medical Anthropology and the Problem of Belief 64Byron J. GoodPart II Illness and Narrative, Body and Experience 77Introduction 799 Medicine’s Symbolic Reality: On a Central Problem in the Philosophy of Medicine 85Arthur M. Kleinman10 Elements of Charismatic Persuasion and Healing 91Thomas J. Csordas11 The Thickness of Being: Intentional Worlds, Strategies of Identity, and Experience Among Schizophrenics 108Ellen Corin12 The Concept of Therapeutic ‘Emplotment’ 121Cheryl Mattingly13 Myths/Histories/Lives 137Michael Jackson14 The State Construction of Affect: Political Ethos and Mental Health Among Salvadoran Refugees 143Janis Hunter Jenkins15 Struggling Along: The Possibilities for Experience among the Homeless Mentally Ill 160Robert DesjarlaisPart III Governmentalities and Biological Citizenship 175Introduction 17716 Dreaming of Psychiatric Citizenship: A Case Study of Supermax Confinement 181Lorna A. Rhodes17 Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations 199Adriana Petryna18 Human Pharmakon: Symptoms, Technologies, Subjectivities 213João Biehl19 The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed 232Veena Das20 Where Ethics and Politics Meet: The Violence of Humanitarianism in France 245Miriam TicktinPart IV The Biotechnical Embrace 263Introduction 26521 The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients 272Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good22 Where It Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation 284Lawrence Cohen23 ‘‘Robin Hood’’ of Techno-Turkey or Organ Trafficking in the State of Ethical Beings 300Aslihan Sanal24 Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions 319Marcia C. Inhorn25 AIDS in 2006: Moving toward One World, One Hope? 327Jim Yong Kim and Paul FarmerPart V Biosciences, Biotechnologies 331Introduction 33326 Dr. Judah Folkman’s Decalogue and Network Analysis 339Michael M. J. Fischer27 Beyond Nature and Culture: Modes of Reasoning in the Age of Molecular Biology and Medicine 345Hans-Jörg Rheinberger28 Immortality, In Vitro: A History of the HeLa Cell Line 353Hannah Landecker29 A Digital Image of the Category of the Person 367Joseph Dumit30 Experimental Values: Indian Clinical Trials and Surplus Health 377Kaushik Sunder RajanPart VI Global Health, Global Medicine 389Introduction 39131 Medical Anthropology and International Health Planning 394George M. Foster32 Anthropology and Global Health 405Craig R. Janes and Kitty K. Corbett33 Mot Luuk Problems in Northeast Thailand: Why Women’s Own Health Concerns Matter as Much as Disease Rates 422Pimpawun Boonmongkon, Mark Nichter, and Jen Pylypa34 The New Malaise: Medical Ethics and Social Rights in the Global Era 437Paul Farmer35 Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life 452Didier FassinPart VII Postcolonial Disorders 467Introduction 46936 Amuk in Java: Madness and Violence in Indonesian Politics 473Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good37 The Political Economy of ‘Trauma’ in Haiti in the Democratic Era of Insecurity 481Erica James38 Contract of Mutual (In)Difference: Governance and the Humanitarian Apparatus in Contemporary Albania and Kosovo 496Mariella Pandolfi39 Darfur through a Shoah Lens: Sudanese Asylum Seekers, Unruly Biopolitical Dramas, and the Politics of Humanitarian Compassion in Israel 505Sarah S. Willen40 The Elegiac Addict: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject 522Angela GarciaIndex 540