Medical anthropology books

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Metagenomic Futures: How Microbiome Research is Reconfiguring Health and What it Means to be Human

Metagenomic Futures: How Microbiome Research is Reconfiguring...

Author: Roberta Raffaetà
ISBN: 9781032120898
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book is an ethnographic exploration of what it means to be human from a more-than-human perspective, the microbial...  Read More >>

Masking in Pandemic U.S.: Beliefs and Practices of Containment and Connection

Masking in Pandemic U.S.: Beliefs and Practices of Containment...

Author: Urmila Mohan (University College London,UK)
ISBN: 9781032154251
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This anthropological study explores the beliefs and practices that emerged around masking in the United States during...  Read More >>

The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation: Where Do Organs Come From?

The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation: Where...

Author: Hagai Boas (The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel)
ISBN: 9781032331119
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This innovative work combines a rigorous academic analysis of the political economy of organ supply for transplantation...  Read More >>

Poetry in the Clinic: Towards a Lyrical Medicine

Poetry in the Clinic: Towards a Lyrical Medicine

Author: Alan Bleakley ,  Shane Neilson
ISBN: 9781032195940
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores previously unexamined overlaps between the poetic imagination and the medical mind. It shows...  Read More >>

Gender Violence in the American Southwest (AD 1100-1300): Mothers, Sisters, Wives, Slaves

Gender Violence in the American Southwest (AD 1100-1300):...

Author: Debra L. Martin (University of Nevada, USA) ,  Claira Ralston
ISBN: 9780367642273
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This volume uses osteobiography and individual-level analyses of burials retrieved from the La Plata River Valley...  Read More >>

The Legitimacy of Healthcare and Public Health: Anthropological Perspectives

The Legitimacy of Healthcare and Public Health: Anthropological...

Author: Italo Pardo ,  Giuliana B. Prato
ISBN: 9783031255946
Format: Paperback
$422.37

In this book, this sine qua non runs across the in-depth examination of the ways in which healthcare and public...  Read More >>

Biolust, Brain Death, and the Battle Over Organ Transplants: America’s Biotech Juggernaut and its Japanese Critics

Biolust, Brain Death, and the Battle Over Organ Transplants:...

Author: William R. LaFleur (formerly University of Pennsylvania, USA) ,  Edward R. Drott (Sophia University, Japan)
ISBN: 9781350255074
Format: Paperback
$59.99

William LaFleur (1936-2010), an eminent scholar of Japanese studies, left behind a substantial number of influential...  Read More >>

Taiwan’s COVID-19 Experience: Governance, Governmentality, and the Global Pandemic

Taiwan’s COVID-19 Experience: Governance, Governmentality,...

Author: Ming-Cheng M. Lo ,  Yu-Yueh Tsai
ISBN: 9781032572208
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book explores and develops the ongoing conversation about how Taiwan navigated through the COVID-19 pandemic....  Read More >>

Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin America’s mass graves: CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2023 BY FT READERS AND THE NEW YORKER

Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice...

Author: Dr Alexa Hagerty
ISBN: 9781472295798
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Anthropology of Ascendant China: Histories, Attainments, and Tribulations

Anthropology of Ascendant China: Histories, Attainments,...

Author: Mayfair Yang
ISBN: 9781032416106
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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Anthropology of Ascendant China: Histories, Attainments, and Tribulations

Anthropology of Ascendant China: Histories, Attainments,...

Author: Mayfair Yang
ISBN: 9781032416113
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Judentum in Bewegung: Die Entstehung gleichgeschlechtlicher Elternschaft in Israel

Judentum in Bewegung: Die Entstehung gleichgeschlechtlicher...

Author: Sibylle Lustenberger
ISBN: 9783031341298
Format: Hardback
$263.97

In Israel, wo das orthodoxe Rabbinat historisch sanktionierten Einfluss auf die rechtlichen Definitionen von Ehe...  Read More >>

Innovations in Psychological Anthropology

Innovations in Psychological Anthropology

Author: Rebecca Lester
ISBN: 9781032318554
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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Innovations in Psychological Anthropology

Innovations in Psychological Anthropology

Author: Rebecca Lester
ISBN: 9781032318561
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health

The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health...

Author: Tsitsi B. Masvawure ,  Ellen E. Foley
ISBN: 9781032256375
Format: Hardback
$452.00

The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health provides an overview of the complex relationship between...  Read More >>

Street Youth in Canada: An Ethnography of Adversity and Artifice

Street Youth in Canada: An Ethnography of Adversity...

Author: Mark S. Dolson
ISBN: 9781032509228
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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A Mental Ethnography: Conclusions from Research in LSD

A Mental Ethnography: Conclusions from Research in LSD...

Author: Niccolo Caldararo
ISBN: 9783031137471
Format: Paperback
$336.35

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Ethnomedicine and Tribal Healing Practices in India: Challenges and Possibilities of Recognition and Integration

Ethnomedicine and Tribal Healing Practices in India:...

Author: Sunita Reddy ,  Nemthianngai Guite
ISBN: 9789811942884
Format: Paperback
$310.47

This book examines various aspects of ethnomedicine and tribal healing practices, including its importance for inclusion...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution

The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution

Author: Dr Nathalie Gontier (University of Lisbon) ,  Prof Andy Lock (Department of Psychology, Massey University)
ISBN: 9780198813781
Format: Hardback
$377.00

The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution explores the origins of our characteristically human abilities -...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Archaeothanatology: Bioarchaeology of Mortuary Behaviour

The Routledge Handbook of Archaeothanatology: Bioarchaeology...

Author: Christopher J. Knüsel ,  Eline M. J. Schotsmans
ISBN: 9781032114361
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The Routledge Handbook of Archaeothanatology spans the gap between archaeology and biological anthropology, the...  Read More >>

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