Margaret M. Lock

(1936) Anthropologist

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Margaret M. Lock is an anthropologist.

Quick Facts About Margaret M. Lock

Born: February 25, 1936
Profession: Anthropologist

About Margaret M. Lock

[Wikidata] Canadian anthropologist... | [Wikipedia] Margaret Lock is a distinguished British-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.

Quotes by Margaret M. Lock

The locus of the modern struggle with its enemy of death is clearly the body (not mind, society, or the afterworld). The…

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Body

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Flirting with death is the spice of life.

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Death

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Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female…

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Age

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Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political…

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Alzheimer

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Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to…

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Between life and death

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