Medical anthropology books

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Borders across Healthcare: Moral Economies of Healthcare and Migration in Europe

Borders across Healthcare: Moral Economies of Healthcare...

Author: Nina Sahraoui
ISBN: 9781789207415
Format: Hardback
$356.40

Documents the many ways in which borders come to disrupt healthcare settings and illuminates how judgements of a...  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
$356.40

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

AIDS in the Shadow of Biomedicine: Inside South Africa's Epidemic

AIDS in the Shadow of Biomedicine: Inside South Africa's...

Author: Isak Niehaus
ISBN: 9781786994745
Format: Paperback
$46.99

An in-depth ethnographic exploration of how the AIDs pandemic has played out at a local level in South Africa, revealing...  Read More >>

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
$305.00

This book explores the interaction between anthropology and humanitarianism, focused on the organization Médecins...  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
$305.00

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
$305.00

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
$206.97

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

Navigating Miscarriage: Social, Medical and Conceptual Perspectives

Navigating Miscarriage: Social, Medical and Conceptual...

Author: Susie Kilshaw ,  Katie Borg
ISBN: 9781789206630
Format: Hardback
$356.40

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

Human Remains: Curation, Reburial and Repatriation

Human Remains: Curation, Reburial and Repatriation

Author: Margaret Clegg (University College London)
ISBN: 9781107485433
Format: Paperback
$87.98

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
$199.24

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
$79.07

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
$237.60

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
ISBN: 9781138315198
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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 (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK) ,  Betsy Thom (Middlesex University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138491243
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This interdisciplinary collection examines the role that alcohol, tobacco and other drugs have played in framing...  Read More >>

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

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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: 9781787355842
Format: Hardback
$103.50

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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 >>

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

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

Author: Waltraud Ernst (Oxford Brookes University, UK) ,  Biswamoy Pati (Delhi University, India)
ISBN: 9780367866501
Format: Paperback
$88.99

Exploring contentious issues currently debated in the existing scholarship on medicine in British India and other...  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
$88.99

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

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