Margaret M Lock

Biographic Data

ID365509
NAMEMargaret M Lock
GIVEN NAMESMargaret M
FAMILY NAMELock
SIGNATURELOCK M M
AFFILIATIONSCentral Denmark Region
ORCID0009-0009-0710-3989
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS24
TOTAL CITATIONS1278
AUTHOR COUNT20
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX7

  • Frequent callers to the emergency medical services: A mixed-methods study of call patterns, reasons for calling, and wellbeing

    Open AccessTine Bennedsen Gehrt, Camilla Brændstrup Laursen et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2025References: 31

  • The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging

    Margaret M Lock, Margaret LockBOOKAlzheimer Conundrum2014

  • The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging

    Open AccessMargaret M Lock, Margaret LockBOOKThe Alzheimer Conundrum2013

    Due to rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing, and the projections are grim. Despite billions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has been discovered for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. This book exposes the predicaments embedded in current efforts to slow down or halt Alzheimer's disease through early detection of pre-symptomatic biological …

  • Beyond the body proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life

    Margaret Lock, Judith Farquhar et al.BOOKBeyond the body proper2007

    An emergent canon, or putting bodies on the scholarly agenda -- Introduction -- Friedrich Engels on the part played by labor in the transition from ape to man / Robert Hertz -- The pre-eminence of the right hand / Marcel Granet --Right and left in China / Marcel Mauss -- Techniques of the body / Victor Turner --Symbols in Ndembu ritual / Terence Turner -- The social skin -- Philosophical studies, or learning how to think embodiment -- Introductio…

  • Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death

    Margaret M Lock, Margaret LockBOOKTwice Dead2001Cited by: 35

    Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of cases individuals diagnosed as "brain dead" are the source of the organs without which transplants could not take place. In this compelling and provocative…

  • Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery

    Margaret M Lock, Veena Das et al.BOOKRemaking a World2001Cited by: 67

    Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first volume, deals with sources and major forms of social adversity, with an emphasis on political violence. The second, Violence and Subjectivity, contains graphic accounts of how collective experience of violence can alter individual subjectivity. This third volume explores the ways communities "cope" with—endure, work through, b…

  • Pragmatic women and body politics

    Margaret M LockBOOKPragmatic women and body politics1998Cited by: 150

  • Social Suffering

    Kleinman Das, Arthur Kleinman et al.BOOKSocial Suffering1998

    Social suffering takes in the human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease, torture—the whole assemblage of human problems that result from what political, economic, and institutional power does to people—and also human responses to social problems as they are influenced by those forms of power. In the same way that the notion of social suffering breaks down boundaries between specific scholarly disciplines, this cross-disciplinary inve…

  • Decentering the Natural Body: Making Difference Matter

    Margaret M Lock, Margaret LockARTICLEConfigurations1997Cited by: 9References: 9

    Decentering the Natural Body: Making Difference Matter Margaret Lock (bio) One may not always be in agreement with the acerbic literary critic Terry Eagleton, but he certainly has a way with words. Reviewing for the London Review of Books one of the vast genre of recent publications on the body, he states: “There will soon be more bodies in contemporary criticism than on the fields of Waterloo. Mangled members, tormented torsos, bodies emblazoned…

  • Knowledge, Power, and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life

    Lindenbaum Lock, Shirley Lindenbaum et al.BOOKKnowledge, Power, and Practice1994

    These original essays, which combine theoretical argument with empirical observation, constitute a state-of-the-art platform for future research in medical anthropology. Ranging in time and locale, the essays are based on research in historical and cultural settings. The contributors accept the notion that all knowledge is socially and culturally constructed and examine the contexts in which that knowledge is produced and practiced in medicine, p…

  • Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America

    Margaret Lock, Margaret M LockBOOKEncounters with Aging1994Cited by: 17

  • Encounters with AgingMythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America: Mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America

    Margaret M Lock, Margaret LockBOOKEncounters with aging1994

    This book explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions about menopause. It uses ethnography, interviews, statistics, historical and popular culture materials, and medical publications to produce a detailed account of Japanese women's lives. The result offers irrefutable evidence that the experience and meanings—even the endocrinological changes—associated with…

  • Knowledge, Power, and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life

    Greenhalgh, Susan Greenhalgh et al.REVIEWPopulation and Development Review1994

    These original essays, which combine theoretical argument with empirical observation, constitute a state-of-the-art platform for future research in medical anthropology. Ranging in time and locale, the essays are based on research in historical and cultural settings. The contributors accept the notion that all knowledge is socially and culturally constructed and examine the contexts in which that knowledge is produced and practiced in medicine, p…

  • Nerves and Nostalgia

    Margaret M Lock, Margaret LockCHAPTERAnthropologies of Medicine1991

    The British North America Act of 1867, the founding document of Canada, in contrast to the American Constitution, proclaims no majestic vision of a new society with equal rights and freedoms guaranteed for all citizens. From its inception, Canada recognized collectivities as fundamental units and emphasized group rights over those of individual citizens. Whereas in America “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” were enshrined as fundamenta…

  • East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan: Varieties of Medical Experience

    Otsuka Yasuo, Yasuo Otsuka et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1987

  • The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology

    Open AccessNancy Scheper‐hughe, Nancy Scheper‐Hughes et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly1987Cited by: 920References: 82

    Conceptions of the body are central not only to substantive work in medical anthropology, but also to the philosophical underpinnings of the entire discipline of anthropology, where Western assumptions about the mind and body, the individual and society, affect both theoretical viewpoints and research paradigms. These same conceptions also influence ways in which health care is planned and delivered in Western societies. In this article we advoca…

  • Speaking "Truth" to Illness: Metaphors, Reification, and a Pedagogy for Patients

    Open AccessNancy Scheper‐hughe, Nancy Scheper-Hughes et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Newsletter1986Cited by: 5

  • Speaking "Truth" to Illness1: Metaphors, Reification, and a Pedagogy for Patients

    Open AccessNancy Scheper‐hughe, Nancy Scheper‐Hughes et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly1986Cited by: 69References: 9

  • East Asian Medicine and Health Care for the Japanese Elderly

    Margaret M Lock, Margaret LockARTICLEPacific Affairs1984Cited by: 2

    JAPAN IS PROBABLY the only country in the world which holds a national holiday in honour of its elderly population. for the Elders Day [Keiro no Hi] has been in existence for at least three hundred years and serves as an opportunity for public celebrations in which the older members of the community are at the center of the activities. Respect for the elders has been fostered explicitly throughout the centuries by means of the Confucian code of e…

  • East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan

    James R Bartholomew, Margaret M Lock et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1981

  • East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan: Varieties of Medical Experience

    Margaret M Lock, Margaret LockBOOKEast Asian Medicine in Urban Japan1980Cited by: 3

  • L'homme-machine et l'homme-microcosme: L'Approche Occidentale Et l'Approche Japonaise Des Soins Médicaux

    Open AccessMargaret M Lock, Margaret LockARTICLEAnnales Histoire Sciences Sociales1980Cited by: 1References: 17

    En 1620, Francis Bacon constatait: ' La recherche et la découverte de la vérité ne se font et ne peuvent se faire que de deux façons. La première saute des significations et des particularités aux axiomes les plus généraux... c'est la mode actuelle. L'autre arrive aux axiomes en partant des significations et des particularités selon une courbe ascendante et continue qui mène en dernier au plus général des axiomes. Ceci est la bonne voie, même si …

  • Scars of experience: The art of moxibustion in Japanese Medicine and Society

    Open AccessMargaret M Lock, Margaret LockARTICLECulture Medicine and Psychiatry1978

  • Tibetan Medicine. The Ven. Rechung Rimpoche

    Open AccessMargaret M Lock, Margaret LockARTICLEMedical Anthropology Newsletter1977