MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY QUARTERLY International Journal for the Analysis of Health CONTENTS OF VOLUME 10 INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Introduction Robbie Davis-Floyd and Carolyn Sargent Toward a Political Ecology of Health in Medical Anthropology Reconfiguring Nature and Culture: Intersections of Medical Anthropology and Technoscience Studies Monica J. Casper and Barbara A. Koenig ARTICLES The Catholic Church and U.S. Health Care Reform Michael V. Angrosino Practice-Building Seminars in Chiropractic: A Petit Bourgeoise Response to Biomedical Domination Hans Baer Mandinka Mothers and Nurslings: Power and Reproduction Robert D. Whittemore and Elizabeth A. Beverly “Women Come Here on Their Own When They Need To”: Prenatal Care, Authoritative Knowledge, and Maternal Health in Oaxaca Paola M. Sesia The Production of Authoritative Knowledge in American Prenatal Care C. H. Browner and Nancy Press Fetal Ultrasound Imaging and the Production of Authoritative Knowledge in Greece Eugenia Georges Fetal Rights versus the Female Body: Contested Domains M. Jean Heriot Authoritative Knowledge and Birth Territories in Contemporary Japan Deborah Cordero Fiedler Ways of Knowing about Birth in Three Cultures Carolyn Sargent and Grace Bascope Intuition as Authoritative Knowledge in Midwifery and Homebirth Robbie Davis-Floyd and Elizabeth Davis Maternal Health, War, and Religious Tradition: Authoritative Knowledge in Pujehan District, Sierra Leone Amara Jambai and Carol MacCormack Personhood and Illness among the Kulina Donald Pollock The Body That Knows: From Cashinahua Epistemology to a Medical Anthropology of Lowland South America Cecilia McCallum Conceptions of Tuberculosis and Therapeutic Choices in Highland Chiapas, Mexico Lorenza Menegoni 692 MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY QUARTERLY Alcohol Consumption, Brothel Attendance, and Condom Use: Normative Expectations among Thai Military Conscripts Kathleen M. MacQueen, Taweesak Nopkesorn, Michael D. Sweat, Yothin Sawaengdee, Timothy D. Mastro, and Bruce G. Weniger The Cultural Debate over Female Circumcision: The Sudanese Are Arguing This One Out for Themselves Ellen Gruenbaum A Biocultural Perspective on Health and Household Economy in Southern Peru Thomas L. Leatherman Farewell to Adaptationism: Unnatural Selection and the Politics of Biology Merrill Singer The Social Dynamics of Genetic Testing: The Case of Fragile-X Dorothy Nelkin New Bottles, Old Wine: Hidden Cultural Assumptions in a Computerized Explanation System for Migraine Sufferers Diana E. Forsythe Death in Technological Time: Locating the End of Meaningful Life Margaret Lock From Simple Technology to Complex Arena: Classification of Pap Smears, 1917-1990 Adele E. Clarke and Monica J. Casper “How’s the Baby Doing?”: Struggling with Narratives of Progress in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Linda L. Layne Technology and Alternative Cancer Therapies: An Analysis of Heterodoxy and Constructivism David J. Hess RESEARCH REPORTS The Purity of Water at Hospital and at Home as a Problem of Intercultural Understanding Richard Burghart HIV and the Social World of Female Sex Workers in Perth, Australia Charles Waddell Sex, Drugs, and the Spread of HIV/AIDS in Belle Glade, Florida Clyde B. McCoy, Lisa R. Metsch, James A. Inciardi, Robert S. Anwyl, Judith Wingerd, and Keith Bletzer Arrested Pregnancy Syndrome in Haiti: Findings from a National Survey Jeannine Coreil, Debora L. Barnes-Josiah, Antoine Augustin, and Michel Cayemittes Transforming “Body Parts” into Therapeutic Tools: A Report from Germany Linda F.. Hogle COMMENTARIES The Politics of U.S. Health Care Reform Janet M. Bronstein Market Ideology in Health Care and the Catholic Church Charlene Harrington Author’s Reply Michael V. Angrosino The Evolution of Bipedalism and Assisted Birth Wenda R. Trevathan CONTENTS OF VOLUME 10 Authority and Authoritative Knowledge in American Birth Bethany M. Hays Intuition and the Emergence of Midwifery as Authoritative Knowledge Ina May Gaskin Of Selves and Souls, Bodies and Persons, Individuals and Societies: A Commentary on Donald Pollock’s “Personhood and Iliness among the Kulina” Marina Roseman Reflections on Amazonian Anthropologies of the Body Beth A. Conklin Author’s Response Donald Pollock Author’s Response Cecilia McCallum More Than Dialogue: Contributions to the Recapturing of Anthropology Soheir A. Morsy Should Medical Ecology be Political? Ann McElroy An Excellent Prognosis Sarah Franklin Anthropology and Technoscience Studies: Prospects for Synthesis and Ambiguity Patricia A. Kaufert and Joseph M. Kaufert BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS (alphabetical by title) Alcohol, Gender and Culture (Dimitra Gefou-Madianou) and Gender, Drink and Drugs (Maryon McDonald) Linda A. Bennett Birth in Four Cultures: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States (Brigitte Jordan, revised and expanded by Robbie Davis-Floyd) Carol MacCormack Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas (Robert Desjarlais) Mary M. Cameron The Caregiving Dilemma: Work in an American Nursing Home (Nancy Foner) Renée Rose Shield Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India (David Arnold) Frédérique Apfell-Marglin Disembodying Women: Perspectives on Pregnancy and the Unborn (Barbara Duden) Emily Martin The Healer’s Tale: Transforming Medicine and Culture (Sharon R. Kaufman) Susan Brandt Graham Infibulation: Female Mutilation in Islamic Northeastern Africa (Esther K. Hicks) and Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions (Marcia C. Inhorn) Soheir A. Morsy and Jehan A. El-Bayoumi 694 MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY QUARTERLY Knowledge, Power, and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life (Shirley Lindenbaum and Margaret Lock, eds.) Linda C. Garro Mother Father Deaf: Living between Sound and Silence (Paul Preston) Nora Ellen Groce One Blood: The Jamaican Body (Elisa Janine Sobo) Eileen Van Schaik Sorcery and Shamanism: Curanderos and Clients in Northern Peru (Donald Joralemon and Douglas Sharon) Beth A. Conklin Surrogate Motherhood: Conceptions of the Heart (Helena Ragoné) and With Child in Mind: Studies of the Personal Encounter with Infertility (Margarete Sandelowski) Linda M. Whiteford Yearbook of Cross-Cultural Medicine and Psychotherapy, 1992. Alternative Medicine and Psychotherapy (Walter Andritzky, ed.) and Healing Traditions, Alternative Medicine, and the Health Professions (Bonnie Blair O’Conner) Claire M. Cassidy INDEX OF CONTRIBUTORS (pages for book and film reviews in italics) Angrosino, Michael V. Georges, Eugenia Anwy], Robert S. Groce, Nora Ellen Apfeil-Marglin, Frédérique Gruenbaum, Ellen Augustin, Antoine Harrington, Charlene Baer, Hans A. Hays, Bethany M Barnes-Josiah, Debora L. Heriot, M. Jean Bascope, Grace Hess, David J Bennett, Linda A. Hogle, Linda F. Beverly, ElizabethA. ......... Inciardi, James A Bletzer, Keith Jambai, Amara Bronstein, Janet M. Kaufert, Joseph M. Browner, C. H Kaufert, Patricia A. Burghart, Richard Koenig, Barbara A. Cameron, Mary M. Layne, Linda L Casper, Monica J. Leatherman, Thomas L Cassidy, Claire M Lock, Margaret Cayemittes, Michel MacCormack, Carol Clarke, Adele E MacQueen, Kathleen M. Conklin, Beth A Martin, Emily Coreil, Jeannine Mastro, Timothy D Davis, Elizabeth McCallum, Cecilia Davis-Floyd, Robbie Bit y, CiieB. .. ww2. we e El-Bayoumi, Jehan A McElroy, Ann Fiedler, Deborah Cordero Menegoni, Lorenza Forsythe, Diana E. or Franklin, Sarah Morsy, Soheir A. Garro, Linda C. Nelkin, Dorothy Gaskin, Ina May Nopkesorn, Taweesak Graham, Susan Brandt Pollock, Donald CONTENTS OF VOLUME 10 Press, Nancy Trevathan, Wenda R. Roseman, Marina Van Schaik, Eileen Sargent, Carolyn Waddell, Charles Sawaengdee, Yothin Weniger, Bruce G. Shield, Renée Rose Whiteford, Linda M. Sesia, Paola M Whittemore, Robert D. Singer, Merrill Wingerd, Judith Sweat, Michael D