Margaret Lock
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Margaret Lock's Degrees
- PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Margaret Lock is a distinguished Canadian medical anthropologist, known for her publications in connection with an anthropology of the body and embodiment, comparative epistemologies of medical knowledge and practice, and the global impact of emerging biomedical technologies.
Margaret Lock's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology (1987) (2067)
- Cultivating the Body: Anthropology and Epistemologies of Bodily Practice and Knowledge (1993) (590)
- An Anthropology of Biomedicine (2018) (348)
- Encounters With Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America. (1994) (310)
- Menopause, local biologies, and cultures of aging (2001) (277)
- Knowledge, power, and practice : the anthropology of medicine and everyday life (1994) (258)
- Pragmatic women and body politics (1998) (255)
- Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death (2001) (248)
- Culture and symptom reporting at menopause. (2005) (241)
- Remaking a World - Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery (2002) (231)
- The tempering of medical anthropology: troubling natural categories. (2001) (208)
- Beyond the body proper : reading the anthropology of material life (2007) (187)
- Ambiquities of aging: Japanese experience and perceptions of menopause (1986) (185)
- Menopause: Lessons From Anthropology (1998) (160)
- 2 The evolution of menopausal symptoms (1993) (156)
- Remaking life and death: Toward an Anthropology of the Biosciences (2003) (153)
- Comprehending the Body in the Era of the Epigenome1 (2015) (152)
- Cultural construction of the menopausal syndrome: the Japanese case. (1988) (148)
- Contested meanings of the menopause (1991) (146)
- Speaking “Truth” to Illness1: Metaphors, Reification, and a Pedagogy for Patients (1986) (144)
- The Epigenome and Nature/Nurture Reunification: A Challenge for Anthropology (2013) (133)
- Menopause in cultural context (1994) (128)
- East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan: Varieties of Medical Experience (1980) (110)
- The Alienation of Body Tissue and the Biopolitics of Immortalized Cell Lines (2001) (106)
- The evolution of menopausal symptoms. (1993) (104)
- East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan (1984) (101)
- Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: Intersections of Inquiry (2000) (96)
- Menopause research: the Korpilampi workshop. (1986) (88)
- Death in technological time: locating the end of meaningful life. (1996) (84)
- Breast cancer: Reading the omens (1998) (84)
- Models and practice in medicine: Menopause as syndrome or life transition? (1982) (82)
- When it runs in the family: putting susceptibility genes in perspective (2006) (75)
- On being ethnic: The politics of identity breaking and making in Canada, or, Nevra on Sunday (1990) (71)
- Genetic Diversity and the Politics of Difference (2000) (68)
- Situating local biologies: Anthropological perspectives on environment/human entanglements (2018) (67)
- Susceptibility genes and the question of embodied identity. (2007) (65)
- Plea for acceptance: school refusal syndrome in Japan. (1986) (65)
- Postgenomics, uncertain futures, and the familiarization of susceptibility genes. (2011) (63)
- Handbook of genetics and society: Mapping the new genomic era (2009) (62)
- Introduction: From documenting medical pluralism to critical interpretations of globalized health knowledge, policies, and practices (2002) (62)
- Medicalization of women's third age. (1997) (60)
- Symptom reporting at menopause: a review of cross-cultural findings (2002) (57)
- Human Body Parts as Therapeutic Tools: Contradictory Discourses and Transformed Subjectivities (2002) (53)
- The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging (2013) (53)
- The message in the bottle illness and the micropolitics of resistance (1991) (49)
- REACHING CONSENSUS ABOUT DEATH: HEART TRANSPLANTS AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN JAPAN (1990) (47)
- Contesting the natural in Japan: Moral dilemmas and technologies of dying (1995) (47)
- Spirit Possessions and Avenging GhostsStories of Supernatural Activity as Narratives of Terror and Mechanisms of Coping and Remembering (2001) (46)
- Anomalous Ageing: Managing the Postmenopausal Body (1998) (45)
- Transcending mortality: organ transplants and the practice of contradictions. (1995) (43)
- Recovering the Body (2017) (40)
- Living Cadavers and the Calculation of Death (2004) (39)
- Speech and SilenceWomen's Testimony in the First Five Weeks of Public Hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2001) (39)
- Rationalization of Japanese Herbal Medication: The Hegemony of Orchestrated Pluralism (1990) (37)
- DSM-III as a culture-bound construct: Commentary on culture-bound syndromes and international disease classifications (1987) (37)
- Popular Conceptions of Mental Health in Japan (1982) (35)
- Interrogating the Human Diversity Genome Project. (1994) (34)
- new Japanese mythologies: faltering discipline and the ailing housewife (1988) (33)
- Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: On dying twice: culture, technology and the determination of death (2000) (33)
- Animation and cessation: the remaking of life and death (editor's introduction). (2003) (33)
- Organ transplantation in a globalised world (2006) (32)
- Situating the practice of organ donation in familial, cultural, and political context. (2008) (31)
- Biosociality and susceptibility genes: A cautionary tale (2007) (31)
- Accounting for Disease and Distress: Morals of the Normal and Abnormal (2000) (30)
- Dementia Entanglements in a Postgenomic Era (2011) (30)
- Decentering the Natural Body: Making Difference Matter (1997) (29)
- The lure of the epigenome (2013) (29)
- Twice Dead (2020) (27)
- Ideology, Female Midlife, and the Greying of Japan (1993) (26)
- Inventing a new death and making it believable (2002) (26)
- The Concept of Race: An Ideological Construct (1993) (25)
- Can Science Resolve the Nature / Nurture Debate? (2016) (25)
- Monitoring motherhood: sociocultural and historical aspects of maternal and child health in Japan. (1994) (24)
- The organization and practice of East Asian medicine in Japan: continuity and change. (1980) (21)
- Health, Illness, and Medical Care in Japan: Cultural and Social Dimensions (1987) (20)
- The Bomb's Womb?Women and the Atom Bomb (2001) (20)
- Cultural aspects of organ donation and transplantation. (1999) (19)
- Licorice in Leviathan: The medicalization of care for the Japanese elderly (1984) (17)
- Accounting for variation in and overuse of antibiotics among humans (2021) (17)
- A Nation at Risk: Interpretations of School Refusal in Japan (1988) (17)
- Genetic susceptibility for Alzheimer's disease: Why did adult offspring seek testing? (2005) (16)
- Cross-cultural vasomotor symptom reporting: conceptual and methodological issues. (2005) (16)
- Hot Flushes in Cultural Context: The Japanese Case as a Cautionary Tale for the West (1991) (16)
- Mutable environments and permeable human bodies★ (2018) (15)
- Relationships between Society, Culture, and Biomedicine: An Introduction to the Essays (1988) (14)
- Nerves and nostalgia: expression of loss among greek immigrants in montreal. (1990) (14)
- Boundaries, Names, AlteritiesA Case Study of a “Communal Riot” in Dharavi, Bombay (2001) (13)
- Displacing Suffering: The Reconstruction of Death in North America and Japan (2016) (13)
- Anthropological approaches to menopause: questioning received wisdom. Introduction. (1986) (10)
- Detecting amyloid biomarkers: Embodied risk and Alzheimer prevention (2013) (10)
- Marginality, Suttering, and CommunityThe Politics of Collective Experience and Empowerment in Thailand (2001) (9)
- Part 3: The Human in the Body: Demoting the Genetic Body (2009) (9)
- Scars of experience: the art of moxibustion in Japanese Medicine and Society (1978) (9)
- Japanese responses to social change--making the strange familiar. (1983) (8)
- Nerves and Nostalgia (1991) (8)
- Reforming Medical Education: Towards a Broadening of Attitudes (1986) (8)
- Global and local perspectives on population health (2006) (7)
- Japanese psychotherapeutic systems: On acceptance and responsibility (1981) (7)
- Medicalization: Cultural Concerns (2001) (7)
- Eclipse of the gene and the return of divination. Commentaries. Author's reply (2005) (6)
- Interactive Role of Genes and the Environment (2006) (6)
- Utopias of health eugenics, and germline engineering (2003) (6)
- Genomics: Embodying Molecular Genomics (2011) (6)
- Toxic Environments and the Embedded Psyche. (2020) (5)
- Protests of a Good Wife and Wise Mother: (2019) (5)
- The impact of the Chinese medical model on Japan or, how the younger brother comes of age. (1985) (5)
- The anthropological study of the American medical system: Center and periphery (1986) (5)
- Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: Introduction (2000) (5)
- East Asian Medicine and Health Care for the Japanese Elderly (1984) (5)
- Menopause in Japanese women. (1995) (5)
- On Revealing the Hidden Curriculum (1982) (4)
- The HGDP and the Politics of Bioethics (1999) (4)
- Menopause as a Normal Physiological Event or as a Disease (1994) (4)
- Reimagining AboriginalityAn Indigenous People's Response to Social Suffering (2001) (4)
- Social, Political, and Epistemological Aspects of Genetics and Genomics (2006) (3)
- Hard‐Earned Lives: Accounts of Health and Illness from East London. JOCELYN CORNWELL (1986) (3)
- The contribution of ethnography to epigenomics research: toward a new bio-ethnography for addressing health disparities. (2021) (3)
- P4-121 How does genetic testing affect anxiety about developing ad? Findings from a randomized clinical trial (2004) (3)
- Culture, Technology and the New Death: Deadly Disputes in Japan and North America (2021) (3)
- Faltering Discipline and the Ailing Family (1994) (3)
- Culture and sympto mr eporting at menopause (2005) (3)
- Views of Japanese Women on Menopause : A Discussion Based on Cultural Differences with Canada and America (1997) (3)
- Eclipse of the Gene and the Return of Divination1 (2005) (2)
- Family planning in Japanese society: Traditional birth control in a modern urban culture: by Samuel Coleman. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1983. 269 pp. $25.00 (1985) (2)
- Knowledge, Power and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life. (1995) (2)
- Testing for Susceptibility Genes: A Cautionary Tale (2017) (2)
- Starvation in hospital. Refer early to a dietitian. (1994) (2)
- MEDUSA'S HAIR: AN ESSAY ON PERSONAL SYMBOLS AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE by GANATH OBEYESEKERE. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. 217 pages, $22.50 (1983) (2)
- Shortage of anaesthetists (1977) (2)
- Apoe genotyping, risk estimates, and public understanding of susceptibility genes (2009) (2)
- Preserving Moral Order: Responses to Biomedical Technologies (2007) (2)
- Oriental medicine in urban Japan : a harmony of tradition and science (1976) (2)
- Deadly Disputes: Hybrid Selves and the Calculation of Death in Japan and North America (1998) (2)
- An examination of the influence of traditional therapeutic systems on the practice of cosmopolitan medicine in Japan. (1980) (2)
- Permeable Bodies and Environmental Delineation (2020) (2)
- Peering Behind the Platitudes—Rituals of Resistance (1994) (2)
- Reading the Endpapers: Five French Texts with Paper Bookbindings Using Printed Waste as Endpapers, and the Influence of Censorship on the Eighteenth-century Book Trade (pp 257-298) (1969) (2)
- From Genetics to Postgenomics and the Discovery of the New Social Body (2012) (2)
- Globalization and Cultures of Biomedicine: Japan and North America (2003) (2)
- Medicine in Chinese Cultures: Comparative Studies of Health Care in Chinese and Other Societies. Arthur Kleinman, Peter Kunstadter, E. Russell Alexander, and James L. Gale (1978) (1)
- Normal and Abnormal Behavior in Chinese Culture. Arthur Kleinman and Tsung‐yi Lin, eds (1982) (1)
- Unbound Subjectivities and New Biomedical Technologies (2007) (1)
- Genomics, Genetics and Society: Bridging the Disciplinary Divides Workshop, Toronto, April-May 2004 (2006) (1)
- Improving our Public Image (1986) (1)
- Organs; Donation or Routine Retrieval? (1996) (1)
- Illusion of Indolence—Ideology and Partial Truths (1994) (1)
- Becoming Japanese: The World of the Pre-School Child. (1988) (1)
- Introduction (2001) (1)
- Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan & North America // Review (1995) (1)
- Targeting community mental health services (1994) (1)
- Deadly Disputes: The Body in Death in Japan, North America, and Europe (1995) (1)
- Surgical castration for sex offenders. Boundaries between surgery and mutilation are blurred. (1993) (1)
- Japanese Women: Constraint and Fulfillment. TAKIE SUGIYAMA LEBRA (1985) (0)
- Inadequacies in the Mental Health Act 1983 in relation to mentally disordered remand prisoners. (1997) (0)
- Situating local biologies: Anthropological perspectives on environment/human entanglements (2018) (0)
- Chapter 6. Genome- Wide Association Studies: Back to the Future (2014) (0)
- Tibetan Medicine.The Ven. Rechung Rimpoche. (1977) (0)
- Chapter 3. Paths to Alzheimer Prevention (2014) (0)
- Book Reviews : Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan, Cambridge Univer sity Press, 1984. $37.50 (1985) (0)
- Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan, Cambridge University Press, 1984. $37.50 (1985) (0)
- Section 1: Death, Dying, and Procurement of Organs for Transplantation Situating the practice of organ donation in familial, cultural, and political context (2008) (0)
- Organs for sale? The economics of altruism (2003) (0)
- Chapter 9. Transcending Entrenched Tensions (2014) (0)
- Chapter 2. Striving to Standardize Alzheimer Disease (2014) (0)
- Making Europe Unsafe for Agbiotech Les Levidow (2009) (0)
- 7. Prevailing against Inertia: An Interim Resolution to the Brain-Death Debate (2019) (0)
- Personal View (1980) (0)
- Probabilities and Kōnenki (1994) (0)
- L’avenir (2020) (0)
- The Doctoring of Kōnenki (1994) (0)
- L’avenir (2012) (0)
- Chapter 1. Making And Remaking Alzheimer Disease (2014) (0)
- The Pathology of Modernity (1994) (0)
- Thanks to Reviewers (2009) (0)
- Introduction: (2019) (0)
- Minimal access surgery (1995) (0)
- Women, middle age, and menopause in Japan and North America (1995) (0)
- Introduction:: Health and Medical Care as Cultural and Social Phenomena (2019) (0)
- Making Europe unsafe for agbiotech Book Section (2018) (0)
- The Making of Menopause (1994) (0)
- Detecting amyloid biomarkers: Embodied risk and Alzheimer prevention (2013) (0)
- The Open University ’ s repository of research publications and other research outputs Making Europe unsafe for agbiotech (2012) (0)
- Living with Uncertainty: The Genetics of Late Onset Alzheimer s Disease (2006) (0)
- Odd Women Out (1994) (0)
- Genetics and society: perspectives from the twenty-first century (2009) (0)
- Afterword. Portraits from the Mind (2014) (0)
- Health, Illness, and Medical Care in Japan: Culture and Social Dimensions.@@@Health and Illness in Changing Japanese Society. (1988) (0)
- Against Nature—Menopause as Herald of Decay (1994) (0)
- 6. Genetic Susceptibility and Alzheimer’s Disease: The Penetrance and Uptake of Genetic Knowledge (2020) (0)
- 5. Japan and the Brain-Death “Problem” (2019) (0)
- 4. Making the New Death Uniform (2019) (0)
- The Alzheimer Enigma in an Ageing World (2017) (0)
- 12. The Body Transcendent (2019) (0)
- SIX From Genetics to Postgenomics and the Discovery of the New Social Body (2020) (0)
- 11. When Persons Linger in Bodies (2019) (0)
- Chapter 8. Chance Untamed and the Return of Fate (2014) (0)
- 10. When Bodies Outlive Persons (2019) (0)
- The Henry Davis Gift: A Collection of Bookbindings. Vol. 3, A Catalogue of South European Bindings , by Mirjam M. Foot (pp 323-326) (2010) (0)
- The Turn of Life—Unstable Meanings (1994) (0)
- Chapter 7. Living with Embodied Omens (2014) (0)
- A psychiatric trainee's guide to the criminal courts. (1999) (0)
- What's old is new again. Spironolactone and heart failure. (1999) (0)
- MONSTER IN THE MIND: A NEW RESEARCH DOCUMENTARY ON ALZHEIMER'S (2016) (0)
- New Japanese Mythologies: Faltering Discipline and the Ailing Housewife in Japan (2018) (0)
- Margaret Lock: Interviewed by Eugene Raikhel (2017) (0)
- [Anthropological research method. Cultural construction of the menopausal syndrome: the Japanese case]. (1990) (0)
- The cultural transition: Human experience and social transformation in the third world and Japan: edited by Merry I. White and Susan Pollak. Routledge & Kegan Paul, Boston, Mass., 1986. 302 pp. $33.00 (1987) (0)
- Solution to treating prisoners in hospital is financial (1995) (0)
- Abstracts and Reviews : 3. South-East Asia (1986) (0)
- 13. The Social Life of Human Organs (2019) (0)
- The Delivery of Health Services in the People's Republic of China. Peter Wilenski. (1979) (0)
- Health and illness in changing Japanese society: by Kyoichi Sonoda. University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 1988. 170 pp. Yen 5200 (1989) (0)
- Abstracts and Reviews : PENA IN THE ECUADORIAN SIERRA: A PSYCHOANTHRO- POLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF SADNESS by M. TOUSIGNANT. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 8 (1984):381-398 (1985) (0)
- Chapter 5. Alzheimer Genes: Biomarkers of Prediction and Prevention (2014) (0)
- 6. Technology as Other: Japanese Modernity and Technology (2019) (0)
- Commendation for Tullio Seppilli (2020) (0)
- 8. Social Death and Situated Departures (2019) (0)
- Introduction: From documenting medical pluralism to critical interpretations of globalized health knowledge, policies, and practices : From documenting medical pluralism to critical interpretations of globalized health knowledge, policies, (2003) (0)
- Resignation, Resistance, Satisfaction—Narratives of Maturity (1994) (0)
- 2. Technology in Extremis (2019) (0)
- The Travels of Protean Biologies (2018) (0)
- Chapter 4. Embodied Risk Made Visible (2014) (0)
- 3. Locating the Moment of Death (2019) (0)
- Controlled Selves and Tempered Bodies (1994) (0)
- 14. Revisiting Vivisection in a World Short of Organs (2019) (0)
- Book Review:When the Twain Meet: The Rise of Western Medicine in Japan John Z. Bowers (1982) (0)
- Abstracts and Reviews : CULTURE AND CURING: ANTHOPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON TRADITIONAL MEDICAL BELIEFS AND PRACTICES by PETER MORLEY and ROY WALLIS, editors. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978. $14.95. 190 pages (1980) (0)
- 9. Imagined Continuities: On Becoming an Ancestor (2019) (0)
- 1. Boundary Transgressions and Moral Uncertainty (2019) (0)
- Preamble: Accidental Death (2019) (0)
- Extravagance, or the good and the bad of genetic diversity Amade M’charek (2009) (0)
- Epilogue The Politics of Aging—Flashes of Immortality (1994) (0)
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