Medical anthropology books

Originally published in 1986, this book draws upon a range of authors to reflect wide interest in systematising...  Read More >>

This book investigates how individual cancer narratives change in an age of networked social media. Networked cancer:...  Read More >>

This volume has three goals: The first goal of this edited volume is to present theoretical and methodological discussions...  Read More >>

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The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology....  Read More >>

Embedded in feminist communication, sociological, and anthropological scholarship, Global Fluids examines the ways...  Read More >>

The dominance of ‘illness narratives’ in narrative healing studies has tended to mean that the focus centres around...  Read More >>

The proportion of people over 65 is substantially increasing and will continue to do so in the coming decades. Societies...  Read More >>

Laplante follows umhlonyane - one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. The volume...  Read More >>

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

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Drawing on concepts from both history and anthropology, The Origins of Cocaine explores how three countries - Colombia,...  Read More >>

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

During his illness and rehabilitation he scribbles down notes about what is happening to him, what he is observing...  Read More >>

Capturing Quicksilver considers the use, promotion, and legislation of Chinese medicine in Singapore in relation...  Read More >>

With a broad geographical scope, Care across Distance explores the multiple ways in which care across regional and...  Read More >>

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

In her latest contribution to the growing field of emotion studies, Deidre Pribram makes a compelling argument for...  Read More >>

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Forensic anthropologists are confronted with ethical issues as part of their education, research, teaching, professional...  Read More >>

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