Medical anthropology books

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Muscular and Skeletal Anomalies in Human Trisomy in an Evo-Devo Context: Description of a T18 Cyclopic Fetus and Comparison Between Edwards (T18), Patau (T13) and Down (T21) Syndromes Using 3-D Imaging and Anatomical Illustrations

Muscular and Skeletal Anomalies in Human Trisomy in...

Author: Rui Diogo ,  Christopher M. Smith
ISBN: 9781498711371
Format: Hardback
$378.00

This book focuses on human anatomy and medicine and specifically on both muscular and skeletal birth defects in...  Read More >>

The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve

The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve...

Author: H. Clark Barrett (Professor, Professor, UCLA Department of Anthropology, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9780199348305
Format: Hardback
$211.95

The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first...  Read More >>

The Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in Practice

The Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in Practice

Author: Peregrine Horden ,  Elisabeth Hsu
ISBN: 9781782389071
Format: Paperback
$72.32

Offers new perspectives for studying the so-called ""humoral medical traditions"" over the last 2,000 years Re-visits...  Read More >>

Paleopathology in Perspective: Bone Health and Disease through Time

Paleopathology in Perspective: Bone Health and Disease...

Author: Elizabeth Weiss
ISBN: 9780759124035
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Elizabeth Weiss introduces readers to how lifestyle changes—in complex interaction with biology, genes, and environment—affect...  Read More >>

Paleopathology in Perspective: Bone Health and Disease through Time

Paleopathology in Perspective: Bone Health and Disease...

Author: Elizabeth Weiss
ISBN: 9780759124424
Format: Paperback
$130.00

Elizabeth Weiss introduces readers to how lifestyle changes—in complex interaction with biology, genes, and environment—affect...  Read More >>

Healing Holidays: Itinerant Patients, Therapeutic Locales and the Quest for Health

Healing Holidays: Itinerant Patients, Therapeutic Locales...

Author: Harish Naraindas ,  Cristiana Bastos
ISBN: 9781138806658
Format: Hardback
$200.00

This volume on medical tourism includes contributions by anthropologists and historians on a variety of health-seeking...  Read More >>

Identity Politics and the New Genetics: Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging

Identity Politics and the New Genetics: Re/Creating...

Author: Katharina Schramm ,  David Skinner
ISBN: 9781782386827
Format: Paperback
$41.27

Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety...  Read More >>

Medical Anthropology in Europe: Shaping the Field

Medical Anthropology in Europe: Shaping the Field

Author: Elisabeth Hsu ,  Caroline Potter
ISBN: 9781138808003
Format: Hardback
$77.99

This collection brings together three generations of medical anthropologists working at European universities to...  Read More >>

Method and Practice in Biological Anthropology: A Workbook and Laboratory Manual for Introductory Courses

Method and Practice in Biological Anthropology: A Workbook...

Author: Samantha Hens
ISBN: 9780133825862
Format: Loose-leaf
$281.56

A valuable resource for you Biological Anthropology lab Method and Practice in Biological Anthropology: A Workbook...  Read More >>

The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations in Europe

The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations...

Author: Albert J. Ammerman ,  L L Cavalli-sforza
ISBN: 9780691612133
Format: Paperback
$57.99

This book explores the shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture as a way of life and the implications of...  Read More >>

Facial Growth in the Rhesus Monkey: A Longitudinal Cephalometric Study

Facial Growth in the Rhesus Monkey: A Longitudinal Cephalometric...

Author: Emet D. Schneiderman
ISBN: 9780691604886
Format: Paperback
$74.99

For a wide spectrum of scientists from biomedical and dental researchers to primatologists and physical anthropologists,...  Read More >>

The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents

The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents

Author: Elisabeth Bronfen
ISBN: 9780691608372
Format: Paperback
$125.00

Surrealist writer Andre Breton praised hysteria for being the greatest poetic discovery of the nineteenth century,...  Read More >>

Intimate Economies of Development: Mobility, Sexuality and Health in Asia

Intimate Economies of Development: Mobility, Sexuality...

Author: Chris Lyttleton (Macquarie University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415817738
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Aspirations, desires, opportunism and exploitation are seldom considered as fundamental elements of donor-driven...  Read More >>

Tooth Development in Human Evolution and Bioarchaeology

Tooth Development in Human Evolution and Bioarchaeology...

Author: Simon Hillson (University College London)
ISBN: 9781107011335
Format: Hardback
$152.66

This book addresses key questions in palaeoanthropology and bioarchaeology to examine the unique role of teeth in...  Read More >>

Development and Public Health in the Himalaya: Reflections on healing in contemporary Nepal

Development and Public Health in the Himalaya: Reflections...

Author: Ian Harper (University of Edinburgh, UK)
ISBN: 9780415659987
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Engaging with a range of public health issues, this book charts important social and political transitions in Nepal...  Read More >>

Medical Empiricism and Philosophy of Human Nature in the 17th and 18th Century

Medical Empiricism and Philosophy of Human Nature in...

Author: Claire Crignon ,  Carsten Zelle
ISBN: 9789004268128
Format: Hardback
$385.44

Empiricism has many different faces. As the contributions to this volume demonstrate, in the 17th and 18th century...  Read More >>

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