Medical anthropology books

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Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa

Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and...
Author: P. Wenzel Geissler , Catherine Molyneux ISBN: 9780857450920 Format: Hardback	$250.80
Drawing on rich, ethnographic and historiographic material, this volume represents the emergent field of anthropological... Read More >>

Health, Illness and Culture: Broken Narratives

Health, Illness and Culture: Broken Narratives
Author: Lars-Christer Hydén (Linkoping University, Sweden) , Jens Brockmeier (Linköping University, Sweden) ISBN: 9780415898003 Format: Paperback	$98.99
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Fatness and the Maternal Body: Women's Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy

Fatness and the Maternal Body: Women's Experiences of...
Author: Maya Unnithan-Kumar , Soraya Tremayne ISBN: 9780857451224 Format: Hardback	$269.10
Focusing specifically on the maternal body, contributors to the volume examine how the language and notions of obesity... Read More >>

Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground

Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground
Author: Tom Koch ISBN: 9780226449357 Format: Hardback	$118.80
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Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities: Comparative Inquiries in Science, History, and Ethics

Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities: Comparative Inquiries...
Author: Jing Bao Nie (University of Otago, New Zealand) , Nanyan Guo (University of Otago, New Zealand) ISBN: 9780415682282 Format: Paperback	$118.00
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Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World: Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice

Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World: Global Politics...
Author: Laurent Pordié (University of Heidelberg, Germany) ISBN: 9780415666701 Format: Paperback	$96.99
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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: 9781405190022 Format: Hardback	$527.87
A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical... Read More >>

Out of Place: Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Out of Place: Madness in the Highlands of Papua New...
Author: Michael Goddard ISBN: 9780857450944 Format: Hardback	$269.10
The Kakoli of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), the focus of this study, did not traditionally have... Read More >>

Islam and New Kinship: Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon

Islam and New Kinship: Reproductive Technology and the...
Author: Morgan Clarke ISBN: 9780857451408 Format: Paperback	$61.97
Assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization have provoked global controversy and ethical debate.... Read More >>

Empathy and Healing: Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology

Empathy and Healing: Essays in Medical and Narrative...
Author: Vieda Skultans ISBN: 9780857451385 Format: Paperback	$92.27
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Vital Healing: Energy, Mind and Spirit in Traditional Medicines of India, Tibet and the Middle East - Middle Asia

Vital Healing: Energy, Mind and Spirit in Traditional...
Author: Donald McCown , Marc Micozzi ISBN: 9781848190450 Format: Hardback	$65.87
Dr. Marc S. Micozzi unfolds the compelling idea that vital energy, ""prana"" in the Indian practice of Ayurveda,... Read More >>

Social Bioarchaeology

Social Bioarchaeology
Author: Sabrina C. Agarwal (University of California, Berkeley, USA) , Bonnie A. Glencross (Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada) ISBN: 9781444337679 Format: Paperback	$74.95
* Illustrates new methodological directions in analyzing human social and biological variation * Offers a wide... Read More >>

Social Bioarchaeology

Social Bioarchaeology
Author: Sabrina C. Agarwal (University of California, Berkeley, USA) , Bonnie A. Glencross (Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada) ISBN: 9781405191876 Format: Hardback	$180.95
* Illustrates new methodological directions in analyzing human social and biological variation * Offers a wide... Read More >>

Centralizing Fieldwork: Critical Perspectives from Primatology, Biological and Social Anthropology

Centralizing Fieldwork: Critical Perspectives from Primatology,...
Author: Jeremy MacClancy , Agustín Fuentes ISBN: 9781845456900 Format: Hardback	$269.10
Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating... Read More >>

Medical Proofs, Social Experiments: Clinical Trials in Shifting Contexts

Medical Proofs, Social Experiments: Clinical Trials...
Author: Catherine Will , Tiago Moreira ISBN: 9780754679288 Format: Hardback	$315.00
Clinical trials have become key technologies for decision making in the contemporary world. This book is of interest... Read More >>

Health and Disease in Byzantine Crete (7th–12th centuries AD)

Health and Disease in Byzantine Crete (7th–12th centuries...
Author: Chryssi Bourbou , Dr. Alain Touwaide ISBN: 9780754666158 Format: Hardback	$315.00
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Virtual Anthropology: A guide to a new interdisciplinary field

Virtual Anthropology: A guide to a new interdisciplinary...
Author: Gerhard W. Weber , Fred L. Bookstein ISBN: 9783211486474 Format: Hardback	$261.36
This is the first textbook of Virtual Anthropology, the new science that combines elements from fields as diverse... Read More >>

The Politics of Bioethics

The Politics of Bioethics
Author: Alan Petersen (Monash University, Australia) ISBN: 9780415990066 Format: Hardback	$336.00
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Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience: The Quest for an Adequate Life

Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience: The...
Author: Everett Zhang (Princeton University, USA) , Arthur Kleinman (Harvard University, USA) ISBN: 9780415597197 Format: Paperback	$120.00
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Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience: The Quest for an Adequate Life

Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience: The...
Author: Everett Zhang (Princeton University, USA) , Arthur Kleinman (Harvard University, USA) ISBN: 9780415597180 Format: Hardback	$336.00
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Obesity: Cultural and Biocultural Perspectives

Obesity: Cultural and Biocultural Perspectives
Author: Alexandra A. Brewis ISBN: 9780813548913 Format: Paperback	$83.60
In a world now filled with more people who are overweight than underweight, public health and medical perspectives... Read More >>

Human and Nonhuman Bone Identification: A Concise Field Guide

Human and Nonhuman Bone Identification: A Concise Field...
Author: Diane L. France ISBN: 9781439820391 Format: Paperback	$175.00
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Human Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective: Past Meets Present

Human Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective:...
Author: Tina Moffat , Tracy Prowse ISBN: 9781845457655 Format: Hardback	$269.10
Integration of studies on human diet and nutrition from both the past and present Use of the biocultural perspective... Read More >>

Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety

Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk...
Author: E. Summerson Carr ISBN: 9780691144504 Format: Paperback	$67.99
Takes readers into the ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. This book explores the puzzling... Read More >>

Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety

Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk...
Author: E. Summerson Carr ISBN: 9780691144498 Format: Hardback	$198.00
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