Medical anthropology books

This book is an introduction to the study of human diversity in both its biological and cultural dimensions. This...  Read More >>

This book is an introduction to the study of human diversity in both its biological and cultural dimensions. This...  Read More >>

Anthropology of Tobacco makes tobacco the centre of its own, contentious, global story in which, instead of a passive...  Read More >>

Raising the Dust explores the relationship between human and ecological health through the lens of African traditional...  Read More >>

This book showcases a wealth of new research looking at end-of-life care and rituals in contexts of post-migration...  Read More >>

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This edited collection explores the multiple ways in which ethnography and health emerge and take form through the...  Read More >>

This book takes a reproductive justice approach to argue that surrogacy as practised in the contemporary neoliberal...  Read More >>

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

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

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This book is the first full-length study of HIV/AIDS work in relation to government and NGOs. Based on unparalleled...  Read More >>

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An eye-opening, entertaining and thought-provoking account of a mortician's journey...  Read More >>

Recognizing the interplay between biomedicine and indigenous medicine among the Mapuche in Southern Chile, this...  Read More >>

This book investigates a long history into the beliefs about the plasticity of human biology and analyses the techniques...  Read More >>

Shifting the sociological focus away from CAM as a stable entity that elicits perceptions and experiences, chapters...  Read More >>

When Mary Steedly went to North Sumatra, Indonesia, she intended to study the curing practices of Karo Batak spirit...  Read More >>

This comprehensive account of the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history examines its devastating effects on West Africa’s...  Read More >>

When Mary Steedly went to North Sumatra, Indonesia, she intended to study the curing practices of Karo Batak spirit...  Read More >>

This book investigates a long history into the beliefs about the plasticity of human biology and analyses the techniques...  Read More >>

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This book describes community ophthalmology professionals in South Asia who demonstrate social entrepreneurship...  Read More >>

This ambitious sourcebook surveys both the traditional basis for and the present  state of indigenous women’s reproductive...  Read More >>

The popularization of the Internet, due in larger part to the advent of multifunctional cell phones, poses new challenges...  Read More >>

The Managed Body productively complicates ‘menstrual hygiene management’ (MHM)—a growing social movement to support...  Read More >>