Medical anthropology books

The concept of “Waithood” was developed by political scientist Diane Singerman to describe the expanding period...  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 >>

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A New Scientist Best Book of 2020 How is it that a baboon and a blob of slime mould instinctively know...  Read More >>

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Ancestral Diets and Nutrition supplies dietary advice based on the study of prehuman and human populations worldwide...  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 >>

Unpacking assumptions about corseting, Rebecca Gibson supplements narratives of corseted women from the 18th and...  Read More >>

Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary...  Read More >>

Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations, this book looks at how they deal with dimensions of their social...  Read More >>

The Anthropological Demography of Health explores the combination of anthropological and demographic approaches...  Read More >>

Through ethnographic research focused on the local culture and logic of care, Vittoria documents that when given...  Read More >>

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Through an unprecedented multidisciplinary and global approach, this book documents the dramatic 7,000-year history...  Read More >>

Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach, Fourth Edition, offers an accessible and contemporary overview of...  Read More >>

This book takes a historical and anthropological approach to understanding how non-human hosts and vectors of diseases...  Read More >>

The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection...  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 >>

Medical Materialities investigates possible points of cross-fertilisation between medical anthropology and material...  Read More >>

Haemophilia in Aotearoa New Zealand provides a richly detailed analysis of the experience of the bleeding disorder...  Read More >>

Injecting Bodies in More-than-Human Worlds moves away from a hierarchical conceptualisation of drug use based on...  Read More >>