Medical anthropology books

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Kanzi's Primal Language: The Cultural Initiation of Primates into Language

Kanzi's Primal Language: The Cultural Initiation of...

Author: P. Segerdahl ,  W. Fields
ISBN: 9781403996046
Format: Hardback
$290.40

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The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism

The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism...

Author: Ernesto de Martino ,  Dorothy Zinn
ISBN: 9781853437847
Format: Paperback
$100.19

The Land of Remorse (La Terra del Rimorso, first Italian edition 1961) is a classic work by Ernesto De Martino,...  Read More >>

Asian Medicine and Globalization

Asian Medicine and Globalization

Author: Joseph S. Alter
ISBN: 9780812238662
Format: Hardback
$80.95

As more and more Asian medical practices cross into Western culture through the popularity of yoga and herbalism,...  Read More >>

Worlds of Psychotic People: Wanderers, 'Bricoleurs' and Strategists

Worlds of Psychotic People: Wanderers, 'Bricoleurs'...

Author: Els van Dongen
ISBN: 9780415303903
Format: Hardback
$173.00

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Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire: A Systematic Survey of Subsistence Crises and Epidemics

Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine...

Author: Dionysios Ch. Stathakopoulos ,  Professor Leslie Brubaker
ISBN: 9780754630210
Format: Hardback
$284.00

An analytical account of the history of subsistence crises and epidemic diseases in Late Antiquity. Based on a catalogue...  Read More >>

Bolivia

Bolivia

Author: Marguerite Kistler
ISBN: 9781590185315
Format: Hardback
$83.03

Facing challenges as diverse as its topography and culture, Bolivia strives to find a balance between protecting...  Read More >>

Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures Topics - Volume 1; Cultures - Volume 2

Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness...

Author: Carol R. Ember ,  Melvin Ember
ISBN: 9780306477546
Format: Hardback
$1370.16

The Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology is unique because it is the first reference work to describe the cultural...  Read More >>

Attachment and Human Survival

Attachment and Human Survival

Author: Marci Green ,  Marc Scholes
ISBN: 9781855759596
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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The Evolution Debate 1813–1870

The Evolution Debate 1813–1870

Author: Charles Darwin ,  David Knight
ISBN: 9780415289276
Format: Hardback
$735.00

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Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man, 1863

Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man, 1863

Author: Charles Lyell
ISBN: 9780415289306
Format: Hardback
$630.00

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Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India

Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in...

Author: Cecilia Coale Van Hollen
ISBN: 9780520223592
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Focusing on the birth experiences of lower-class women in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, this title reveals...  Read More >>

Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India

Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in...

Author: Cecilia Coale Van Hollen
ISBN: 9780520223585
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Focusing on the birth experiences of lower-class women in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, this title reveals...  Read More >>

A Search for the Origins of Human Speech: Auditory and Vocal Functions of the Chimpanzee

A Search for the Origins of Human Speech: Auditory and...

Author: Shozo Kojima
ISBN: 9781876843472
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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A Search for the Origins of Human Speech: Auditory and Vocal Functions of the Chimpanzee

A Search for the Origins of Human Speech: Auditory and...

Author: Shozo Kojima
ISBN: 9784876984558
Format: Hardback
$105.47

This book presents a detailed overview of chimpanzees' auditory sense and vocalisation. This is done to demonstrate...  Read More >>

The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice

The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice

Author: Annemarie Mol
ISBN: 9780822329176
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, this title looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment...  Read More >>

The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice

The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice

Author: Annemarie Mol
ISBN: 9780822329022
Format: Hardback
$211.07

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Bodies/Machines

Bodies/Machines

Author: Iwan Rhys Morus
ISBN: 9781859736951
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This book is a contribution to the history of technology and to contemporary debates about humans and machines....  Read More >>

Bodies/Machines

Bodies/Machines

Author: Iwan Rhys Morus
ISBN: 9781859736906
Format: Hardback
$240.00

This book a contribution to the history of technology and to contemporary debates about humans and machines.  Read More >>

Medical Pluralism in the Andes

Medical Pluralism in the Andes

Author: Christine Greenway ,  Joan D. Koss-Chioino
ISBN: 9780415299206
Format: Paperback
$139.00

This volume is a collection of anthropological approaches to health in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia since the 1980s....  Read More >>

Medical Pluralism in the Andes

Medical Pluralism in the Andes

Author: Christine Greenway ,  Joan D. Koss-Chioino
ISBN: 9780415299183
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume is a collection of anthropological approaches to health in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia since the 1980s....  Read More >>

Practitioners, Practices and Patients: New Approaches to Medical Archaeology and Anthropology

Practitioners, Practices and Patients: New Approaches...

Author: Patricia Anne Baker ,  Gillian Carr
ISBN: 9781842170793
Format: Paperback
$184.80

Medical archaeologists and anthropologists are both interested in the cultural constructions of disease, healing...  Read More >>

The Corpus and the Cortex: The 3-D Mind, Volume 2

The Corpus and the Cortex: The 3-D Mind, Volume 2

Author: Jacques M. Chevalier
ISBN: 9780773523579
Format: Hardback
$79.07

While The 3-D Mind 1 started the trilogy on the lateral plane (right and left hemispheres), this title looks at...  Read More >>

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