Arc of Interference: Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge

CONTENTS\nFOREWORD\nINTRODUCTION\nPART I Traversing Imperiled Worlds and Envisaging Human Futures\nIntroduction\n1 Death by Fire: The Problem of Moral Certainty in China’s Tibet\n2 Bringing Up the Bodies: Erasing and Caring for Mexicans in the Mexico-US Borderlands\n3 In the Vast Abrupt: Horizon Work in an Age of Runaway Climate Change\nPART II The Category Fallacy and Care amid the Experts\nIntroduction\n4 Justifying a Lower Standard of Health Care for the World’s Poor: A Call for Decolonizing Global Health\n5 The Moral Economies of Heart Disease and Cardiac Care in India\n6 Intimate and Social Spheres of Mental Illness\nPART III Worlds of Biotechnological Promise and the Plasticity of Self and Power\nIntroduction\n7 A Good Death: The Promise and Threat of Biometric Inclusion for Transgender Women in India\n8 Medical Cosmopolitanism in Moral Worlds: Aspirations and Stratifications in Global Quests for Conception\n9 Environments and Mutable Selves\nPART IV Tracing Arts of Living (Or, Anthropologies after Hope Has Departed)\nIntroduction\n10 Anthropology in a Mode of Dying\n11 Ethnographic Open\n12 Thinking on Borrowed Time . . . About Privileging the Human\nAFTERWORD Lessons Learned from the Ethnography of Care\nIN MEMORIAM\nACKNOWLEDGMENTS\nBIBLIOGRAPHY\nCONTRIBUTORS\nINDEX