Medical anthropology books

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A Cultural Approach to Emotional Disorders: Psychological and Aesthetic Interpretations

A Cultural Approach to Emotional Disorders: Psychological...

Author: E. Deidre Pribram
ISBN: 9781138018297
Format: Hardback
$326.00

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

Culture and PTSD: Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective

Culture and PTSD: Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective...

Author: Devon E. Hinton ,  Byron J. Good
ISBN: 9780812247145
Format: Hardback
$316.67

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

Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture

Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture

Author: Darrell A. Posey ,  Kristina Plenderleith
ISBN: 9780415753784
Format: Paperback
$98.99

This provocative selection of the late Darrell A Posey's work concentrates on the dispersal and threatened extinction...  Read More >>

A Companion to Dental Anthropology

A Companion to Dental Anthropology

Author: Joel D. Irish (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) ,  G. Richard Scott (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)
ISBN: 9781118845431
Format: Hardback
$363.95

Companion to Dental Anthropology presents a collection of original readings addressing all aspects and sub-disciplines...  Read More >>

Islam, Development, and Urban Women’s Reproductive Practices

Islam, Development, and Urban Women’s Reproductive Practices...

Author: Cortney Hughes Rinker (George Mason University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138952362
Format: Paperback
$98.99

This ethnography examines the relationship between development policies, women’s reproductive practices, and understandings...  Read More >>

Illness as a Work of Thought: A Foucauldian Perspective on Psychosomatics

Illness as a Work of Thought: A Foucauldian Perspective...

Author: Monica Greco
ISBN: 9780415757409
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This book is a practical application of Foucault's archaeological and genealogical methods to the study of illness...  Read More >>

Community Participatory Involvement: A Sustainable Model for Global Public Health

Community Participatory Involvement: A Sustainable Model...

Author: Linda M Whiteford ,  Cecilia Vindrola-Padros
ISBN: 9781629581033
Format: Paperback
$81.99

The book offers a “how-to” presentation of a health-care model, Community Participatory Involvement, which has been...  Read More >>

Magical Consciousness: An Anthropological and Neurobiological Approach

Magical Consciousness: An Anthropological and Neurobiological...

Author: Susan Greenwood (University of Sussex, UK) ,  Erik D. Goodwyn (University of Louisville, USA)
ISBN: 9781138850361
Format: Hardback
$336.00

This book is a poly-vocal study in which the voices of the neurobiologist, anthropologist as anthropologist, anthropologist...  Read More >>

Community Participatory Involvement: A Sustainable Model for Global Public Health

Community Participatory Involvement: A Sustainable Model...

Author: Linda M Whiteford ,  Cecilia Vindrola-Padros
ISBN: 9781629581026
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The book offers a “how-to” presentation of a health-care model, Community Participatory Involvement, which has been...  Read More >>

Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets: Medicine and Martial Arts in South India

Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets: Medicine and Martial Arts...

Author: Roman Sieler (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Heidelberg University)
ISBN: 9780190243869
Format: Paperback
$115.95

This book provides an ethnographic study of varmakkalai, or 'the art of the vital spots,' a South Indian esoteric...  Read More >>

Thai in Vitro: Gender, Culture and Assisted Reproduction

Thai in Vitro: Gender, Culture and Assisted Reproduction...

Author: Andrea Whittaker
ISBN: 9781782387329
Format: Hardback
$269.10

Explores the experience of infertility and the pursuit and use of assisted reproductive technologies by Thai couples....  Read More >>

Health and the Modern Home

Health and the Modern Home

Author: Mark Jackson
ISBN: 9781138881433
Format: Paperback
$103.00

Health and the Modern Home explores shifting and contentious debates about the impact of the domestic environment...  Read More >>

A Companion to Medical Anthropology

A Companion to Medical Anthropology

Author: Merrill Singer (University of Connecticut, USA) ,  Pamela I. Erickson (University of Connecticut, USA)
ISBN: 9781118863213
Format: Paperback
$78.95

A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical...  Read More >>

A Companion to Forensic Anthropology

A Companion to Forensic Anthropology

Author: Dennis Dirkmaat (Mercyhurst College, USA)
ISBN: 9781118959794
Format: Paperback
$74.95

A Companion to Forensic Anthropology explores the latest theoretical and methodological work in the field, and includes...  Read More >>

Medical Ethnobiology of the Highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico: The Gastrointestinal Diseases

Medical Ethnobiology of the Highland Maya of Chiapas,...

Author: Elois Ann Berlin ,  Brent Berlin
ISBN: 9780691602714
Format: Paperback
$155.00

Whereas most previous work on Maya healing has focused on ritual and symbolism, this book presents evidence that...  Read More >>

Religion, Medicine and the Human Embryo in Tibet

Religion, Medicine and the Human Embryo in Tibet

Author: Frances Garrett (University of Toronto, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138862258
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This book explores the cultural history of embryology in Tibet, in culture, religion, art and literature. Filling...  Read More >>

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