Subjectivity

Acknowledgments vii List of Contributors ix Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity 1 Jo Biehl, Byron Good, and Arthur Kleinman PART I. TRANSFORMATIONS IN SOCIAL EXPERIENCE AND SUBJECTIVITY 25 1 The Vanishing Subject: The Many Faces of Subjectivity 34 Am e Oksenberg Rorty 2. The Experiential Basis of Subjectivity: How Individuals Change in the Context of Societal Transformation 52 Arthur Kleinman and Erin Fitz-Henry 3. How the Body Speaks: Illness and the Lifeworld among the Urban Poor 66 Veena Das and Ranendra K. Das 4. Anthropological Observation and Self-Formation 98 Paul Rabinow PART II. POLITICAL SUBJECTS 119 5. Hamlet in Purgatory 128 Stephen Greenblatt 6. America's Transient Mental Illness: A Brief History of the Self-Traumatized Perpetrator 155 Allan Young 7. Violence and the Politics of Remorse: Lessons from South Africa 179 Nancy Scheper-Hughes PART III. MADNESS AND SOCIAL SUFFERING 235 8. The Subject of Mental Illness: Psychosis, Mad Violence, and Subjectivity in Indonesia 243 Byron J. Good, Subandi, and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good 9. The "Other" of Culture in Psychosis: The Ex-Centricity of the Subject 273 Ellen Corin 10. Hoarders and Scrappers: Madness and the Social Person in the Interstices of the City 315 Anne M. Lovell PART IV. LIFE TECHNOLOGIES 341 21. Whole Bodies, Whole Persons? Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis, and Biology 352 Evelyn Fox Keller 12. The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients 362 Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good 13. "To Be Freed from the Infirmity of (the) Age": Subjectivity, Life-Sustaining Treatment, and Palliative Medicine 381 Eric L. Krakauer 14. A Life: Between Psychiatric Drugs and Social Abandonment 397 Jo Biehl Epilogue. To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable: Return(s) to Subjectivities 423 Michael M.J. Fischer Index 447