title: Nonsecular Medical Anthropology.
abstract: A nonsecular medical anthropology insists on the ways medicine and science have constituted 'the secular' itself through the 'secular self'-how medical knowing has been used to craft the secular political subject. As James Boon noted, too often in social theory, "religion gets safely tucked away-restricted theoretically to 'meaning' rather than power" (1998:245). The authors of the six articles in this special issue 'untuck' religiosity from within the norms and numbers of medicine itself, and examine how 'secular' medicine has relied on religious traditions to produce political secularity. These articles demonstrate that 'secular' medicine relies on religious others whose exclusion bespeaks latent religious commitments of citizenship in the modern political realm of health.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Anthropology , University of California San Francisco , San Francisco , California , USA.
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Whitmarsh
authors.affiliation: b Department of Anthropology , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan , USA.
authors.forename: Elizabeth F S
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Roberts
mesh_terms: D060432:Anthropology, Medical; D006801:Humans; D012067:Religion