Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer is a professor of science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He is the author of American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within, Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age, and The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life.

Junko Kitanaka is a professor of medical anthropology in the Department of Human Sciences at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. Her book Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress won the American Anthropological Association's Francis Hsu Prize, among other awards

Eugene Raikhel is an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development and director of the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic.

Introduction: Topographies of Medicine: Bodies, Institutions, and Infrastructures

Part I Medicine's Infrastructures Medicine and Everyday Life: Transformations of the Life Course Through Biomedical Encounters

1 Sickness, Illness, Body Politic, Planetary Health

2 Disability, Development, Potentiality, Personhood

3 Acute, Chronic, Suffering, Cure

4 Diagnosis, Symptom, Treatment, Care

5 Hospital, Clinic, Expertise, Education

Part II Medicine's Bodies

Making and Manipulating Bodies

6 Mental, Somatic, Neuro-

7 Genes, Race, Nature, Phenotype

8 Drugs, Embodiment, Harm, Pleasure

9 Health, Value, Technology, Prosthetic, Pharmaceutical

Part III Medicine's Institutions Institutional Narratives of Medicine

10 The State, Colonialism, Humanitarianism

11 Laboratories, Experiments, Clinical Trials

12 Environment, Tropical Disease, Structural Inequality, Public Health

13 Precarity, Exposure, Toxicity, Evidence

14 Governance, Law, Policy, Activism

Notes on Contributors

Index