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Margaret Lock
Researcher at McGill University
Publications - 139
Citations - 11155
Margaret Lock is an academic researcher from McGill University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Transplantation. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 139 publications receiving 10604 citations. Previous affiliations of Margaret Lock include Illinois Institute of Technology.
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Knowledge, Power, and Practice : the Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life
Shirley Lindenbaum,Margaret Lock +1 more
TL;DR: These original essays, which combine theoretical argument with empirical observation, constitute a state-of-the-art platform for future research in medical anthropology and examine the contexts in which knowledge is produced and practiced in medicine, psychiatry, epidemiology, and anthropology.
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Culture and symptom reporting at menopause
TL;DR: It is suggested that both biological variation and cultural differences contribute to the menopausal transition, and that more rigorous data collection is required to elucidate how biology and culture interact in female ageing.
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The tempering of medical anthropology: troubling natural categories
TL;DR: An approach in medical anthropology that commenced in the early 1980s and that continues to the present day in which biomedical knowledge and practices are systematically incorporated into anthropological analyses is reviewed.
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Comprehending the Body in the Era of the Epigenome
TL;DR: It is suggested that it is urgent for anthropologists to respond to a current move in epigenetics in which nature and nurture are no longer understood as dichotomous elements and Anthropological concepts of embodiment should be retheorized in light of this development.
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Beyond the body proper : reading the anthropology of material life
Margaret Lock,Judith Farquhar +1 more
TL;DR: An emergent canon, or putting bodies on the scholarly agenda, can be found in this article, where Engels on the part played by labor in the transition from ape to man and Hertz on the pre-eminence of the right hand.