Medical anthropology books

So, in 2015, a group of interdisciplinary scholars gathered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for an intellectual experiment:...  Read More >>

This book therefore links medicine and American eugenics, examines race-based medicine’s influence on the perception...  Read More >>

Traces the development of the ""disruptive"" surrogacy industry and its movement across Southeast Asia following...  Read More >>

During the last two decades, a new form of trade in commercial surrogacy has grown across Asia. Andrea Whittaker...  Read More >>

These distinctive complexities make the need to stage public action in response to pandemics and other public health...  Read More >>

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Contrasting the birthing practices of upper-class and indigenous women, this ethnography of the alternative birth...  Read More >>

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

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

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Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton covers a scope of major topics in human skeletal biology and will...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Diet and Nutrition in the Roman World presents a comprehensive overview of the sources,...  Read More >>

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

A methodologically innovative ethnography of SurroMomsOnline.com, the largest surrogacy support website in the United...  Read More >>

The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies. The chapters...  Read More >>

So, in 2015, a group of interdisciplinary scholars gathered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for an intellectual experiment:...  Read More >>

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

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book examines the concept of care and care practices in...  Read More >>

Being a Sperm Donor explores how masculinity and sexuality are reconfigured in a time in which the norms and logics...  Read More >>

Healthcare in Motion explores the dynamic interrelationship between mobility and healthcare, drawing on case studies...  Read More >>

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This book traces the history of formative, enduring concepts, foundational in the development of the health disciplines....  Read More >>

This book explores how conditions for childbearing are changing in the 21st century under the impact of new biomedical...  Read More >>

This book discusses fundamental discourses relating to health in Africa arising out of the consequences of endemic...  Read More >>

What is illness? How do the physical, social and emotional worlds of a person change when they become ill? Can there...  Read More >>