Medical anthropology books

This book locates the 2016 Zika epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean within its broader biosocial and historical...  Read More >>

A narrative ethnography about a Ugandan woman and her relatives, this novelistic, fine-grained volume shows how...  Read More >>

This multidisciplinary reference book brings together cutting-edge health and illness topics from around the globe....  Read More >>

Explores the transformation of medical students into medical selves. Anthropologist Vania Smith-Oka provides a close-up...  Read More >>

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Explores the transformation of medical students into medical selves. Anthropologist Vania Smith-Oka provides a close-up...  Read More >>

This book celebrates and captures examples of the excellent scholarship that Palgrave’s Health, Technology, and...  Read More >>

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Through a set of unique cases presented by a diverse international group of practicing forensic anthropologists,...  Read More >>

This book examines the use of canine scent detection to alert humans to symptoms of human chronic illness, specifically...  Read More >>

This multi-disciplinary Handbook examines human health research and its regulation. It uses real world examples...  Read More >>

This book explores the ways in which socio-technical settings in medical contexts find varying articulations in...  Read More >>

The chapters are written in an engaging style, and each chapter investigates the way societies think about the risk,...  Read More >>

The sixth edition of this bestselling text offers a concise history of anthropological theory from antiquity to...  Read More >>

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The Perfect Vagina highlights the complexities involved with Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery, its role in Western...  Read More >>

This book investigates amaXhosa circumcision and the psychological processes involved. Lauraine Vivian employs concepts...  Read More >>

This book tells the story of the HIV epidemic in South Africa, and asks why, after more than three decades, it has...  Read More >>

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The sixth edition of this bestselling text offers a concise history of anthropological theory from antiquity to...  Read More >>

This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts...  Read More >>

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In this unique and timely book, Nelly Oudshoorn argues that any discourse or policy assuming a passive role for...  Read More >>

Nested in debates among anthropologists, philosophers, social theorists and STS scholars, this book argues that...  Read More >>

This ground-breaking book challenges us to re-think ourselves as techno-sapiens—a new species we are creating as...  Read More >>