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Foreclosing futures, enclosing lives: the performance of treating illicit substance use disorders during pregnancy

Description:

Anthropologists engaging with biopolitical theory have commonly assumed that biomedicine is a tool for enacting state-based policies to manage population health. Recent insights in medical anthropology have troubled this assumption, calling into question the role of physicians as “handmaidens” of state-based health policy. I use my position as a physician-anthropologist...

Keyword:

anthropology of reproduction, pregnancy, opioid use disorder, illicit substance use disorders, biopolitics, and medical anthropology

Subject:

Cultural anthropology

Creator:

Premkumar, Ashish

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

08/23/2023

Date Created:

2023-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_965675 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16433