Description
Minority populations are often regarded as being 'hard to reach' and evading state expectations of health protection. This ethnographic and archival study analyses how devout Jews in Britain negotiate healthcare services to preserve the reproduction of culture and continuity. This book demonstrates how the transformative and transgressive possibilities of technology reveal multiple pursuits of protection between this religious minority and the state. Making Bodies Kosher advances theoretical perspectives of immunity, and sits at the intersection of medical anthropology, social history and the study of religions.
Author: Ben Kasstan
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 09/13/2022
Pages: 286
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781800737204
ISBN10: 1800737203
BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Health Care Delivery
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Religion | Judaism | Rituals & Practice
About the Author
Ben Kasstan is a medical anthropologist in the Department of Global Health and Development at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.