João Biehl and Vincanne Adams, editors

Foreword. Against the Grain: Medical Anthropology in the Anthropocene / Paul Farmer xi
Introduction. Art of Interference / João Biehl and Vincanne Adams 1
Part I. Traversing Imperiled Worlds and Envisaging Human Futures
1. Death by Fire: The Problem of Moral Certainty in China’s Tibet / Vincanne Adams 23
2. Bringing Up the Bodies: Erasing and Caring for Mexicans in the Mexico-US Borderland / Davíd Carrasco 42
3. In the Vast Abrupt: Horizon Work in an Age of Runaway Climate Change / Adriana Petryna 65
Part II. The Category Fallacy and Care Amid the Experts
4. Justifying a Lower Standard of Health Care for the World’s Poor: A Call of Decolonizing Global Health / Salmaan Keshavjee 91
5. The Moral Economies of Heart Disease and Cardiac Care in India / David S. Jones 112
6. Intimate and Social Spheres of Mental Illness / Janis H. Jenkins 133
Part III. Worlds of Biotechnological Promise and the Plasticity of Self and Power
7. A Good Death: The Promise and Threat of Biometric Inclusion for Transgender Women in India / Lawrence Cohen 161
8. Medical Cosmopolitanism in Moral Worlds: Aspirations and Stratifications in Global Quests for Conception / Marcia C. Inhorn 187
9. Environments and Mutable Selves / Margaret Lock 210
Part IV. Tracing Arts of Living (Or, Anthropologies After Hope Has Departed)
10. Anthropology in a Mode of Dying / Robert Desjarlais 239
11. Ethnographic Open / João Biehl 257
12. Thinking on Borrowed Time . . . About Privileging the Human / Jean Comaroff 287
Afterword. Lessons Learned from the Ethnography of Care / Arthur Kleinman 305
In Memoriam 327
Acknowledgments 329
Bibliography 331
Contributors 371
Index 373