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... Details of a CIA funding front known as the Human Ecology Fund are examined. The Human Ecology Fund was overseen by Cornell University Medical School neurologist Harold Wolff, MD. The fund secretly received CIA funds and financed a broad range of social and behavioral science research undertaken...

... Benedictine monks in Algeria, the chapter documents a range of cases in which adherence to the principle of “humanity” required ICRC workers to subject themselves to possible acts of violence, sometimes while providing medical aid to the very people carrying out such acts. Such “neutrality” is neither...

... Leading a major institution like the Duke University Medical Center and Health System necessarily involved both communication and reputational issues both within and beyond the institution. Under his tenure, Duke rose to be perceived as among the most innovative medical institutions...

... of his “filthy” dreams. Employing approaches borrowed from queer studies, material textual studies, and medical/health humanities, this essay investigates the nexus of Wigglesworth’s particular orthography, his reflections on his sexual “distemper,” as he called it, and his medicalization of his dreams...

... John Locke hid his work as a medical practitioner from readers of his Essay Concerning Human Understanding by casting language and science as separate “provinces of knowledge.” The chapter analyzes his diagnosis of social and political disorder as arising from pathologies of language...

... The introduction foregrounds the book's main framework, unseen flesh, to understand the layered ways that Brazilian Black lesbians produce knowledge about race, gender, sexuality, class, and medical approaches through their gynecologic visits. The introduction opens with an ethnographic story...

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... Accompaniment is defined as the relationships between a disabled person and three different entities: embodied technologies (including hardware and software, prosthetics, medications, canes, wheelchairs, door openers, and furniture); bodyminds (including animals, friends, antagonists, family...

... intimacies with contagions from Asian and Caribbean frontiers of imperial expansion, U.S. health and military officials increasingly intervened in the entanglement of viruses, bacteria, animals, and humans. Racialized fears of contact were increasingly marshaled to produce new forms of optimism in technology...

... as among the most innovative medical institutions. Inevitably crises arose as well. One of these involved the temporary suspension of Duke’s large program of clinical trials by a division of the Department of Health and Human Services. Another involved the organ transplantation error that resulted...

...” means that global health commodities like drugs, medical devices, water engineering, and care itself are only sometimes assessed in terms of improvements in human corporeal health and well-being. Increasingly the purpose of metrics is also to assess how much money any given technology, commodity...

..., metabolized, and excreted. The chapter begins by tracking the way in which antidepressant medications are metabolized in human bodies—taking the gut as an important biological and political reference point. The chapter argues that the pharmacokinetics of ssris are more conceptually and politically engaging...

...Enigmatic Variations The prologue opens with the popular image of personal genetics in California as a contrast to the collective approach to genomic science in Singapore. It argues that a study of contemporary medical science in Asia should move beyond the binary West–Asia framework...

... While the most bizarre charges of satanic ritual abuse that convulsed communities during the 1980s have slowed, false accusations and wrongful convictions of child sexual abuse continue apace, along with ever-broader definitions and more draconian penalties for sex offenses. Human rights...

... months. In this climate of health vigilance, there was increased focus on the mutability of viruses (SARS, avian flu virus, etc.) and worries about rapid nonhuman to human transmission in a region densely interlinked by commerce, migration, travel, and environmental vectors. The chapter frames the battle...