Medical anthropology books

This book sets out to define and consolidate the field of bioinformation studies in its transnational and global...  Read More >>

The relationships between religion, spirituality, health, biomedical institutions, complementary and alternative...  Read More >>

COVID-19: Proportionality, Public Policy and Social Distance explores the social and political response to the COVID-19...  Read More >>

In Israel, where the Orthodox rabbinate wields historically sanctioned influence over the legal definitions of marriage...  Read More >>

This book illustrates the continuing paradoxes as well as the new challenges linked to childbirth in India, Pakistan,...  Read More >>

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Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out on farms, in animal-based experimental science, and in hospitals,...  Read More >>

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Written from the perspective of a diagnostic radiography educator, t​his book introduces readers to ethnography...  Read More >>

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This book recounts the author’s fieldwork among the trans and gender-variant communities in Naples.  Read More >>

Managing Chronicity in Unequal States investigates how people live with chronic conditions in different contexts...  Read More >>

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This edited volume brings the concept of immobility to the forefront of social studies of medicine to explore how...  Read More >>

A ground-breaking ethnographic study of suckling in the Arabian Gulf , this book reenergises the study of kinship....  Read More >>

Banking on Milk takes the reader on a journey through the everyday life of donor human milk banking across the UK...  Read More >>

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A diagnosis of global inequalities exploited by COVID-19 and how we might evolve. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted...  Read More >>

This unique book examines the lived experiences of a hidden and disenfranchised population: men who wanted to be...  Read More >>