Medical anthropology books

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

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

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Through a set of unique cases presented by a diverse international group of practicing forensic anthropologists,...  Read More >>

Focussing ethnographically on private sector maternity care in South Africa, Privileges of birth attends to the...  Read More >>

The contributors of this volume are social scientists from France, Belgium, England and the United States and represent...  Read More >>

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

This book examines the use of canine scent detection to alert humans to symptoms of human chronic illness, specifically...  Read More >>

By taking an ethnographic approach to medical travel, this important book uses critical perspectives to understand...  Read More >>

This book explores pain in a number of ways. Pain is one such life area that is now ripe for exploitation. Although...  Read More >>

By taking an ethnographic approach to medical travel, this important book uses critical perspectives to understand...  Read More >>

This book aims to introduce nurses and other healthcare professionals to how anthropology can help them understand...  Read More >>

Nested in debates among anthropologists, philosophers, social theorists and STS scholars, this book argues that...  Read More >>

Drawing on ethnographic case studies the volume considers the relationship between global and national policies...  Read More >>

This book aims to introduce nurses and other healthcare professionals to how anthropology can help them understand...  Read More >>

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This book unpacks the organized sets of practices that govern contemporary Asian medicine from their production...  Read More >>

This book examines how science fiction’s portrayal of humanity’s desire for robotic companions influences and reflects...  Read More >>

With the globalization of health care and increased immigration from developing to developed countries, health care...  Read More >>

Draws from recent and continuing field research on an important, relevant, and challenging topic. Brings together...  Read More >>

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

This book and award-winning film provide a unique account of the invisible dynamics of possession and psychosis,...  Read More >>