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The overall focus of this book is the ways humans deal with life
conditions, with destiny, uncertainty and misfortune – how we try to
control the risks of living through medicines, technologies and magic.
When dealing with questions of health and illness rational solutions and
meaningful explanations may be hard to find, and treatment efforts are
often guided just as much by hope as by rational choice. Evaluating the
risks of illness is just one of a number of ways in which human beings
attempt to exert some sense of control over their lives. New methods of
testing for ills and new developments in, for example, genetic screening
and in vitro fertilisation combined with the growing demands of well-
informed patients seem to have turned concern from the actual problems of
specific diseases toward controlling life and the risks of living in
general. The chapters of this book reflect a common effort to transgress
the limits of the medical by drawing on a fundamental concern with the
logic of social and cultural practice. The book represents a de-
medicalization of medical anthropology and a return to some of the classic
themes in anthropology but with a different approach, emphasizing
subjectivity, intentionality and agency.
Vibeke Steffen er lektor på Institut for Antropologi ved Københavns Universitet.
Richard Jenkins er professor emeritus i sociologi ved University of Sheffield. Han har udført socialantropologisk feltarbejde i Nordirland, England, Wales og Danmark. Blandt hans tidligere udgivelser kan nævnes Social Identity (4. udg., Routledge 2014), Rethinking Ethnicity (2. udg., Sage 2008), Foundations of Sociology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) og Black Magic and Bogeymen (Cork University Press, 2014).
Richard Jenkins som forfatter
Being Danish 2011, ISBN 978-87-635-2603-6, hft
Being Danish 2011, ISBN 978-87-635-3690-5, e-publikation
Being Danish 2012, ISBN 978-87-635-3841-1, hft
At være dansk 2014, ISBN 978-87-635-4164-0, hft
Being Danish 2016, ISBN 978-87-635-3860-2, e-publikation
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