Medical anthropology books

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Examines chronologically the medical and societal antecedents of current child care.  Read More >>

Based on fieldwork in a pain treatment center, ""Camp Pain"" focuses on patients' perspectives-on their experiences...  Read More >>

Analyzes the response to AIDS from various groups involved in developing knowledge of and about a health crisis...  Read More >>

This volume studies the explanation of illness in various cultural and social contexts. It is essential reading...  Read More >>

This volume studies the explanation of illness in various cultural and social contexts. It is essential reading...  Read More >>

The Gospel of Germs takes us back to the first great ""germ panic"" in American history, which peaked in the early...  Read More >>

A description of the social, educational, and economic impact of living with a neurological genetic disorder, neurofibromatosis....  Read More >>

Drawing examples from a range of African cultures, this book focuses on the art patronage systems that stimulate...  Read More >>

Drawing examples from a range of African cultures, this book focuses on the art patronage systems that stimulate...  Read More >>

Using evidence from cross-disciplinary research carried out in 1990- 1991, this text tackles debates relating to...  Read More >>

What are the cultural and anthropological understandings of new reproductive technologies? Using evidence from cross-disciplinary...  Read More >>

This comparative text examines the rise of non-orthodox medicine and theorizes the changing nature of health care...  Read More >>

Starting at the turn of the century, most African American midwives in the South were gradually excluded from reproductive...  Read More >>

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The central theme running through this book is the 'social' nature of health. This embraces the way medical knowledge...  Read More >>

Advances earlier studies on medicine's social diversity and regional variations to expose significant differences...  Read More >>

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Advances earlier studies on medicine's social diversity and regional variations to expose significant differences...  Read More >>

This work is a collection of studies on health, medicine and poverty in Tudor and Stuart England. It concentrates...  Read More >>

In this sweeping approach to the history of disease, historian J. N. Hays chronicles perceptions and responses to...  Read More >>

In this sweeping approach to the history of disease, historian J. N. Hays chronicles perceptions and responses to...  Read More >>

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* An up--to--date and exciting textbook that discusses new developments in the sociology of health and illness,...  Read More >>

This book is a practical application of Foucault's archaeological and genealogical methods to the study of illness...  Read More >>