SubjectivityEthnographic Investigations

Acknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity Joao Biehl, Byron Good, and Arthur Kleinman PART I. TRANSFORMATIONS IN SOCIAL EXPERIENCE AND SUBJECTIVITY 1. The Vanishing Subject: The Many Faces of Subjectivity Amelie Oksenberg Rorty 2. The Experiential Basis of Subjectivity: How Individuals Change in the Context of Societal Transformation Arthur Kleinman and Erin Fitz-Henry 3. How the Body Speaks: Illness and the Lifeworld among the Urban Poor Veena Das and Ranendra K. Das 4. Anthropological Observation and Self-Formation Paul Rabinow PART II. POLITICAL SUBJECTS 5. Hamlet in Purgatory Stephen Greenblatt 6. America’s Transient Mental Illness: A Brief History of the Self-Traumatized Perpetrator Allan Young 7. Violence and the Politics of Remorse: Lessons from South Africa Nancy Scheper-Hughes PART III. MADNESS AND SOCIAL SUFFERING 8. The Subject of Mental Illness: Psychosis, Mad Violence, and Subjectivity in Indonesia Byron J. Good, Subandi, and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good 9. The Other of Culture in Psychosis: The Ex-Centricity of the Subject Ellen Corin 10. Hoarders and Scrappers: Madness and the Social Person in the Interstices of the City Anne M. Lovell PART IV. LIFE TECHNOLOGIES 11. Whole Bodies, Whole Persons? Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis, and Biology Evelyn Fox Keller 12. The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good 13. Be Freed from the Infirmity of (the) Age: Subjectivity, Life-Sustaining Treatment, and Palliative Medicine Eric L. Krakauer 14. A Life: Between Psychiatric Drugs and Social Abandonment Joao Biehl Epilogue. To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable: Return(s) to Subjectivities Michael M. J. Fischer Index