Medical anthropology books

Tells about women who choose to give birth at home against the wishes and indeed the interests of established medicine....  Read More >>

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

Using a community-level approach, this title analyzes the implementation of global health policies and how they...  Read More >>

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Using a community-level approach, this title analyzes the implementation of global health policies and how they...  Read More >>

Presents an alternative approach to anorexia, long considered the epitome of a Western obsession with individualism,...  Read More >>

Presents an alternative approach to anorexia, long considered the epitome of a Western obsession with individualism,...  Read More >>

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

Presents an exploration of pregnancy in two different cultures - Japan and Israel - both of which medicalize pregnancy....  Read More >>

Presents an exploration of pregnancy in two different cultures - Japan and Israel - both of which medicalize pregnancy....  Read More >>

The chapters provide profound discussions on dental evolution, dental morphology, dental tissues, dental growth...  Read More >>

An Infinity of Things tells the story of one of the largest private collections ever created, and the life of the...  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 >>

Extensive social science research, particularly by anthropologists, has explored women's reproductive lives, their...  Read More >>

Extensive social science research, particularly by anthropologists, has explored women's reproductive lives, their...  Read More >>

This is the first integrated and comprehensive textbook to explain the principles of evolutionary biology from a...  Read More >>

This is the first integrated and comprehensive textbook to explain the principles of evolutionary biology from a...  Read More >>

A collection of 49 readings with background description that exposes students to the breadth of theoretical perspectives...  Read More >>

Assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization have provoked global controversy and ethical debate....  Read More >>

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Interest in the study of kinship, a key area of anthropological enquiry, has recently reemerged. Dubbed 'the new...  Read More >>

The genealogical model has a long-standing history in Western thought. The contributors to this volume consider...  Read More >>

This volume asks what really happens to social relations in the face of new types of transaction - such as organ...  Read More >>

Investigates the ways in which healers and indigenous archives of cultural knowledge conceptualize and interpret...  Read More >>