Medical anthropology books

Dominik Mattes examines the implementation of antiretroviral HIV-treatment (ART) in Tanzania, exploring the manifold...  Read More >>

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The second decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a surging interest in personalized medicine with the...  Read More >>

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This study focuses on current healing practices from a cultural memory perspective.  Read More >>

This study focuses on current healing practices from a cultural memory perspective.  Read More >>

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

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

Integrates archival and ethnographic material to explore healthcare concerns over time Original study of Haredi...  Read More >>

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Including bibliographical essays to offer readers crucial orientation when approaching the specialist literature...  Read More >>

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Banking on Milk takes the reader on a journey through the everyday life of donor human milk banking across the UK...  Read More >>

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This book takes an intersectional, interdisciplinary, and transnational approach, presenting work that will provide...  Read More >>

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This book examines the future of birthing practices, particularly by focusing on epidural analgesia in childbirth....  Read More >>

This book aims to draw attention to and showcase the wealth of existing and emergent geographical contributions...  Read More >>

Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive health in Northern India,...  Read More >>

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A broad, multidisciplinary account of how human societies have evolved power relations that shape the fundamental...  Read More >>

This ethnography takes the reader into the Australian suburbs to learn about food, eating and bodies during the...  Read More >>

This collection discusses common ways of thinking about risk and uncertainty through examining how uncertainty is...  Read More >>

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

Culture and PTSD examines the applicability of PTSD to cultural contexts beyond Europe and North America and details...  Read More >>