Medical anthropology books

999 books were found.

Remaking the Human: Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement

Remaking the Human: Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair,...

Author: Alvaro Jarrín ,  Chiara Pussetti
ISBN: 9781800730311
Format: Hardback
$356.40

The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions...  Read More >>

Anthropology of Tobacco: Ethnographic Adventures in Non-Human Worlds

Anthropology of Tobacco: Ethnographic Adventures in...

Author: Andrew Russell (Durham University, UK)
ISBN: 9780367709457
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Anthropology of Tobacco makes tobacco the centre of its own, contentious, global story in which, instead of a passive...  Read More >>

Fertility, Health and Reproductive Politics: Re-imagining Rights in India

Fertility, Health and Reproductive Politics: Re-imagining...

Author: Maya Unnithan
ISBN: 9780367786601
Format: Paperback
$88.99

Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive health in Northern India,...  Read More >>

Birthing Techno-Sapiens: Human-Technology Co-Evolution and the Future of Reproduction

Birthing Techno-Sapiens: Human-Technology Co-Evolution...

Author: Robbie Davis-Floyd (Rice University)
ISBN: 9780367535445
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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

Eating Disorders and Child Sexual Abuse

Eating Disorders and Child Sexual Abuse

Author: Lisa Hodge
ISBN: 9789813362956
Format: Hardback
$206.97

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

Anthropology in Medical Education: Sustaining Engagement and Impact

Anthropology in Medical Education: Sustaining Engagement...

Author: Iveris Martinez ,  Dennis W. Wiedman
ISBN: 9783030622763
Format: Hardback
$232.85

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

The Archaeology of Human Bones

The Archaeology of Human Bones

Author: Simon Mays (English Heritage, and University of Southampton, UK)
ISBN: 9781138045675
Format: Paperback
$90.99

The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human skeletal remains from archaeological...  Read More >>

Midwives in Mexico: Situated Politics, Politically Situated

Midwives in Mexico: Situated Politics, Politically Situated...

Author: Hanna Laako (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico) ,  Georgina Sánchez-Ramírez (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico)
ISBN: 9780367473419
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book presents the contemporary history and dynamics of Mexican midwifery - professional, (post)modern or autonomous,...  Read More >>

Embodying Borders: A Migrant’s Right to Health, Universal Rights and Local Policies

Embodying Borders: A Migrant’s Right to Health, Universal...

Author: Laura Ferrero ,  Ana Cristina Vargas
ISBN: 9781789209259
Format: Hardback
$356.40

Based on extensive field research, the essays in this volume illuminate the experiences of migrants from their own...  Read More >>

Biomedicine, Healing and Modernity in Rural Bangladesh

Biomedicine, Healing and Modernity in Rural Bangladesh...

Author: Md. Faruk Shah
ISBN: 9789813291454
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Dr Faruk Shah offers an anthropological critique of biomedicine in rural Bangladesh that explains how the existing...  Read More >>

Place and Professional Practice: The Geographies in Healthcare Work

Place and Professional Practice: The Geographies in...

Author: Gavin J. Andrews ,  Emma Rowland
ISBN: 9783030641788
Format: Hardback
$336.35

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Mental Health and Social Withdrawal in Contemporary Japan: Beyond the Hikikomori Spectrum

Mental Health and Social Withdrawal in Contemporary...

Author: Nicolas Tajan
ISBN: 9780815365747
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book examines the phenomenon of social withdrawal in Japan, which ranges from school non-attendance to extreme...  Read More >>

Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Social and Historical Perspectives

Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan...

Author: Megan Vaughan ,  Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo
ISBN: 9781787357051
Format: Paperback
$77.63

New perspectives on the changing epidemiology of sub-Saharan Africa. Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease...  Read More >>

Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Social and Historical Perspectives

Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan...

Author: Megan Vaughan ,  Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo
ISBN: 9781787357068
Format: Hardback
$129.38

New perspectives on the changing epidemiology of sub-Saharan Africa. Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Cultural Safety: Cultural Diversity for Global Healthcare

An Introduction to Cultural Safety: Cultural Diversity...

Author: Fran Richardson (Charles Darwin University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781138887121
Format: Hardback
$200.00

An Introduction to Cultural Safety defines, examines and positions the concept of cultural safety, until now associated...  Read More >>

Medical Anthropology in Europe: Shaping the Field

Medical Anthropology in Europe: Shaping the Field

Author: Elisabeth Hsu ,  Caroline Potter
ISBN: 9780367739379
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This collection brings together three generations of medical anthropologists working at European universities to...  Read More >>

The Coronavirus: Human, Social and Political Implications

The Coronavirus: Human, Social and Political Implications...

Author: James Miller
ISBN: 9789811593611
Format: Hardback
$142.29

This book describes and analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the relationship between the United States and China...  Read More >>

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