Medical anthropology books

936 books were found.

Médecins Sans Frontières and Humanitarian Situations: An Anthropological Exploration

Médecins Sans Frontières and Humanitarian Situations:...

Author: Jean-François Véran ,  Doris Burtscher
ISBN: 9780367417956
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book explores the interaction between anthropology and humanitarianism, focused on the organization Médecins...  Read More >>

Abortion in Post-revolutionary Tunisia: Politics, Medicine and Morality

Abortion in Post-revolutionary Tunisia: Politics, Medicine...

Author: Irene Maffi
ISBN: 9781789206906
Format: Hardback
$256.16

After the revolution of 2011, the electoral victory of the Islamist party 'Ennahdha' allowed previously silenced...  Read More >>

Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa: An Ethnography of (In)vulnerability

Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa:...

Author: Hans Reihling (University of Amsterdam, U.S.A)
ISBN: 9780367348816
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa explores how different masculinities modulate substance use,...  Read More >>

The Domestication of Humans

The Domestication of Humans

Author: Robert G. Bednarik
ISBN: 9780367897871
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The Domestication of Humans explains the alternative to the African Eve model by attributing human modernity, not...  Read More >>

The Earliest Europeans - A Year in the Life: Survival Strategies in the Lower Palaeolithic

The Earliest Europeans - A Year in the Life: Survival...

Author: Robert Hosfield
ISBN: 9781785707612
Format: Paperback
$64.66

The Earliest Europeans explores the early origins of man in Europe through the perspective of ‘a year in the life’,...  Read More >>

Resilient Cyborgs: Living and Dying with Pacemakers and Defibrillators

Resilient Cyborgs: Living and Dying with Pacemakers...

Author: Nelly Oudshoorn
ISBN: 9789811525285
Format: Hardback
$194.04

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Rapid Ethnographic Assessments: A Practical Approach and Toolkit For Collaborative Community Research

Rapid Ethnographic Assessments: A Practical Approach...

Author: Thurka Sangaramoorthy ,  Karen A Kroeger
ISBN: 9780367252281
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book provides provide a practical guide to understanding and conducting rapid ethnographic assessments (REAs)...  Read More >>

Navigating Miscarriage: Social, Medical and Conceptual Perspectives

Navigating Miscarriage: Social, Medical and Conceptual...

Author: Susie Kilshaw ,  Katie Borg
ISBN: 9781789206630
Format: Hardback
$284.63

This collected volume explores miscarriage in diverse historical and cultural settings with contributions from anthropologists,...  Read More >>

Rapid Ethnographic Assessments: A Practical Approach and Toolkit For Collaborative Community Research

Rapid Ethnographic Assessments: A Practical Approach...

Author: Thurka Sangaramoorthy ,  Karen A Kroeger
ISBN: 9780367252298
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book provides provide a practical guide to understanding and conducting rapid ethnographic assessments (REAs)...  Read More >>

Human Remains: Curation, Reburial and Repatriation

Human Remains: Curation, Reburial and Repatriation

Author: Margaret Clegg (University College London)
ISBN: 9781107485433
Format: Paperback
$85.36

A practical and informative guide to caring for human remains in museums. Discusses key legal and ethical issues,...  Read More >>

Human Remains: Curation, Reburial and Repatriation

Human Remains: Curation, Reburial and Repatriation

Author: Margaret Clegg (University College London)
ISBN: 9781107098381
Format: Hardback
$191.48

A practical and informative guide to caring for human remains in museums. Discusses key legal and ethical issues,...  Read More >>

Maya Bonesetters: Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala

Maya Bonesetters: Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala...

Author: Servando Z. Hinojosa ,  Servando G. Hinojosa
ISBN: 9781477320297
Format: Paperback
$56.95

The first book to thoroughly examine bonesetting in Guatemala, Maya Bonesetters offers an ethnographic portrait...  Read More >>

Maya Bonesetters: Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala

Maya Bonesetters: Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala...

Author: Servando Z. Hinojosa ,  Servando G. Hinojosa
ISBN: 9781477320280
Format: Hardback
$170.95

The first book to thoroughly examine bonesetting in Guatemala, Maya Bonesetters offers an ethnographic portrait...  Read More >>

Suckling: Kinship More Fluid

Suckling: Kinship More Fluid

Author: Fadwa El Guindi (UCLA, USA)
ISBN: 9781138315198
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

Risk and Substance Use: Framing Dangerous People and Dangerous Places

Risk and Substance Use: Framing Dangerous People and...

Author: Susanne MacGregor ,  Betsy Thom
ISBN: 9781138491243
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Critical Medical Anthropology: Perspectives in and from Latin America

Critical Medical Anthropology: Perspectives in and from...

Author: Jennie Gamlin ,  Sahra Gibbon
ISBN: 9781787355835
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Critical Medical Anthropology presents inspiring new work from scholars engaged with and carrying out ethnographic...  Read More >>

Critical Medical Anthropology: Perspectives in and from Latin America

Critical Medical Anthropology: Perspectives in and from...

Author: Jennie Gamlin ,  Sahra Gibbon
ISBN: 9781787355842
Format: Hardback
$103.50

Critical Medical Anthropology presents inspiring new work from scholars engaged with and carrying out ethnographic...  Read More >>

The Devil is Disorder: Bodies, Spirits and Misfortune in a Trinidadian Village

The Devil is Disorder: Bodies, Spirits and Misfortune...

Author: Rebecca Lynch
ISBN: 9781789204872
Format: Hardback
$256.16

The Devil is Disorder explores constructions of the body, health, illness and wider misfortune in a Trinidadian...  Read More >>

Biomedicine, Healing and Modernity in Rural Bangladesh

Biomedicine, Healing and Modernity in Rural Bangladesh...

Author: Md. Faruk Shah
ISBN: 9789813291423
Format: Hardback
$116.41

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

Breast Cancer Gene Research and Medical Practices: Transnational Perspectives in the Time of BRCA

Breast Cancer Gene Research and Medical Practices: Transnational...

Author: Sahra Gibbon ,  Galen Joseph
ISBN: 9780367867843
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This collection brings together cross-disciplinary social science research on areas including the US, Israel, India,...  Read More >>

Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States: 1850-1950

Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States: 1850-1950...

Author: Waltraud Ernst ,  Biswamoy Pati (Delhi University, India)
ISBN: 9780367866501
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Exploring contentious issues currently debated in the existing scholarship on medicine in British India and other...  Read More >>

Locating Zika: Social Change and Governance in an Age of Mosquito Pandemics

Locating Zika: Social Change and Governance in an Age...

Author: Kevin Bardosh
ISBN: 9781138315112
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

The Anthropology of Precious Minerals

The Anthropology of Precious Minerals

Author: Elizabeth Ferry ,  Annabel Vallard
ISBN: 9781487503178
Format: Hardback
$99.99

Based on a Wenner-Gren international workshop, held at the Royal Ontario Museum, this book addresses the complexity...  Read More >>

Politicising Polio: Disability, Civil Society and Civic Agency in Sierra Leone

Politicising Polio: Disability, Civil Society and Civic...

Author: Diana Szántó
ISBN: 9789811361104
Format: Hardback
$194.04

There is little concrete support for people with disabilities in a country where the government is struggling with...  Read More >>

Dementia as Social Experience: Valuing Life and Care

Dementia as Social Experience: Valuing Life and Care...

Author: Gaynor Macdonald ,  Jane Mears (Western Sydney University)
ISBN: 9780367902643
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This innovative volume draws on a range of interdisciplinary perspectives and voices to foreground the social dimensions...  Read More >>

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