Medical anthropology books

This collection of articles reveals ritual to be a unique and powerful asset in healing trauma and broken relationships. Each...  Read More >>

This book takes up the challenge of examining women’s understandings of eating disorders and child sexual abuse...  Read More >>

This volume reflects on how anthropologists have engaged in medical education and aims to positively influence the...  Read More >>

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This book examines the experiences of global healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. It shines a light...  Read More >>

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While many xenotransplantation practices resonate with a security approach that renders uncertainty an inherent...  Read More >>

This book focuses on developing the use of ethnographic research for rehabilitation practitioners by recognizing...  Read More >>

Clinical Anthropology 2.0 presents a new approach to applied medical anthropology that highlights how medical anthropologists...  Read More >>

Limb by limb, case by case – some criminal, some historical, some unaccountably bizarre – Dame Sue Black reconstructs...  Read More >>

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This open access edited book brings together new research on the mechanisms by which maternal and reproductive health...  Read More >>

This open access edited book brings together new research on the mechanisms by which maternal and reproductive health...  Read More >>

Expanding our understanding of contagion further than typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens...  Read More >>

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This book provides a definitive account of koro, a topic of long-standing interest in the field of cultural psychiatry...  Read More >>

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This book addresses the over-prescribing of antidepressants in people with mostly mild and subthreshold depression....  Read More >>

Navigating Digital Health Landscapes explores how users navigate the internet when searching for health information....  Read More >>

The book unpacks this type of ‘sequence-speech’ in engaging detail, adopting a personal, social, cultural, and bio-political...  Read More >>

This book provides a solid basis to understand two centuries of bodily measurement practices and their scientific...  Read More >>

This book describes how malaria both frustrates and facilitates life for Indigenous Pälawan communities living...  Read More >>