Joanna Cook is a Lecturer in Medical Anthropology at University College London. She is the author of Meditation in Modern Buddhism: Renunciation and Change in Thai Monastic Life (C...view moreJoanna Cook is a Lecturer in Medical Anthropology at University College London. She is the author of Meditation in Modern Buddhism: Renunciation and Change in Thai Monastic Life (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and co-editor of Detachment: Essays on the Limits of Relational Thinking (Manchester University Press, 2015).view less