List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: From documenting medical pluralism to critical interpretations of globalized health knowledge, policies, and practices

Margaret Lock

Mark Nichter

Governing bodies in New Order Indonesia

Steve Ferzacca

Too bold, too hot: Crossing ``culture'' in AIDS prevention in Nepal

Stacy Leigh Pigg

The social relations of therapy management

Mark Nichter

Making sense out of modernity

Marina Roseman

A return to scientific reacism in medical social sciences: The case of sexuality and the AIDS epidemic in Africa

Gilles Bibeau

Duncan Pedersen

``We five, our twenty-five'': Myths of population out of control in contemporary India

Patricia Jeffery

Roger Jeffery

Establishing proof: Translating ``science'' and the state in Tibetan medicine

Vincanne Adams

Notes on the evolution of evolutionary psychiatry

Allan Young

Utopias of health, eugenics, and germline engineering

Margaret Lock

Killing and healing revisited: On cultural difference, warfare, and sacrifice

Margaret Trawick

Charles Leslie's Publications

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