Medical anthropology books

In Europe's last primeval forest, at Poland's easternmost border with Belarus, the deep past of ancient oaks, woodland...  Read More >>

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First native anthropologist to discover tribal secrets of traditional medicine. Unique data on medicine among...  Read More >>

Biosocial Worlds offers state-of-the-art contributions to anthropological reflections on the porous boundaries between...  Read More >>

Biosocial Worlds offers state-of-the-art contributions to anthropological reflections on the porous boundaries between...  Read More >>

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Theoretical Approaches in Bioarchaeology emphasizes how several different theoretical perspectives can be used to...  Read More >>

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Given its scope, the book offers a valuable resource for researchers, academics, and students in the fields of medicine,...  Read More >>

These men produced compelling accounts of their emotional pain which belied notions of male inexpressiveness but...  Read More >>

In doing so, this work reveals how changes in cognition may impact the faces of these individuals, leading some...  Read More >>

This book paints a comprehensive portrait of Mexico’s system of assisted reproduction first from a historical perspective,...  Read More >>

This book examines depression as a widely diagnosed and treated common mental disorder in India and offers a significant...  Read More >>

This book addresses how skeletons can inform us about behavior by describing skeletal lesions in the Gombe chimpanzees,...  Read More >>

First book length ethnography on (Danish) sperm donors Bringing medical anthropology/sociology in dialogue with...  Read More >>

This book provides an introduction to the global phenomenon of the age-friendly community movement, through an extensive...  Read More >>

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

Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures puts historical illness concepts in cross-cultural perspective,...  Read More >>

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

An ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea. Focuses on the indigenous population’s interaction...  Read More >>

This book offers an accessible and up-to-date reference on primate zoonoses. Recent years have witnessed a rise...  Read More >>

The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and events which encompass...  Read More >>

The dominance of ‘illness narratives’ in narrative healing studies has tended to mean that the focus centres around...  Read More >>

Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah was a Syrian Arab physician of the 13th century who compiled a biographical encyclopedia of notable...  Read More >>

For decades anthropologists and other scientists have participated in 'post-mortem dissections' of the lives of...  Read More >>