Medical anthropology books

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The story of the global response to the HIV epidemic, told from the perspective of community organizers, activists,...  Read More >>

In a world now filled with more people who are overweight than underweight, public health and medical perspectives...  Read More >>

Since 1987, when the global community first recognized the high frequency of women in developing countries dying...  Read More >>

Weaving a complex story of Native Hawai’ian health in its historical, political, and cultural context, Juliet McMullin...  Read More >>

Plants have cultural histories, and their culturally known applications change through time and across contexts....  Read More >>

The Uses and Abuses of Plant -Derived Smoke is a global compendium of the ethnobotanical uses for plant-derived...  Read More >>

Research on health involves evaluating the disparities that are systematically associated with the experience of...  Read More >>

All cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be described as a purely...  Read More >>

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Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical...  Read More >>

Neither power nor morality but both. Moral power is what the Sukuma from Tanzania in times of crisis attribute to...  Read More >>

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Folk, alternative and complementary health care practices in contemporary Western society are currently experiencing...  Read More >>

Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in...  Read More >>

The modern world is saturated with images. Scientific knowledge of the human body (in all its variety) is highly...  Read More >>

Hammar looks at what happens to national HIV programs when science and religion collide and when both ignore the...  Read More >>

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has been addressed and perceived predominantly through the broad perspectives...  Read More >>

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This book is supposed to be a warm thanks to all those who have supported the Austrian Ethnomedical Society (Osterreichische...  Read More >>

At face value, this book is about medicine in Cambodia over the last hundred years. At the same time, however, by...  Read More >>

At face value, this book is about medicine in Cambodia over the last hundred years. At the same time, however, by...  Read More >>

The first book to focus exclusively on hockey in print, Canadian Hockey Literature is an accessible work that challenges...  Read More >>