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Christopher Dole is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Amherst College.
Christopher Dole is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Amherst College.
IntroductionChapter 1. Medicine and the Will to CivilizationChapter 2. Healing Difference at the Limits of CommunityChapter 3. Hagiographies of the Living: Saintly Speech and Other Wonders of Secular LifeChapter 4. The Therapeutics of Piety: Ethics, Markets, ValueChapter 5. A Malaise of Fracturing Dreams: The Care of RelationsChapter 6. Healing Secular Life: Two Regimes of LossConclusion: FragmentAppendix: Genres of HealingNotesGlossaryReferencesIndexAcknowledgments