Medical anthropology books

Methods enabling the direct study of genetic variation in natural populations have improved considerably. The new...  Read More >>

Methods enabling the direct study of genetic variation in natural populations have improved considerably. The new...  Read More >>

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Meant for students, this collection presents theoretical viewpoints and issues in the field of medical anthropology....  Read More >>

Second Opinion: An Introduction to Health Sociology provides an introduction for students to the sociology of health...  Read More >>

Contributes to the debate about the relationship between science and medicine by bringing together approaches from...  Read More >>

Professor Ben-Sira, a world figure in medical sociology, advances the understanding of the factors that promote...  Read More >>

The contributors to this volume examine the acculturation process of healer, physician, and patient in diverse cultural...  Read More >>

The contributors to this volume examine the acculturation process of healer, physician, and patient in diverse cultural...  Read More >>

An exploration of the border between medical and social problems, the boundary between health and social change,...  Read More >>

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Attempts to discover which diseases were present in the Pacific before the arrival of Europeans and which were subsequently...  Read More >>

The collected papers in this volume cover the effects of environmental stress under a biological and energetic model....  Read More >>

The ways in which people respond to sickness differ from society to society. In this book, the author examines how...  Read More >>

This unique book applies concepts from the field of anthropology to clinical settings to result in a powerful and...  Read More >>

This unique book applies concepts from the field of anthropology to clinical settings to result in a powerful and...  Read More >>

Contemporary, historical and oral-history accounts from regions as diverse as rural North India, urban America,...  Read More >>

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This work investigates how ethnic minority groups in the United States suffer and die from disease at higher rates...  Read More >>

A significant update of the 1990 classic state-of-the-art handbook on medical anthropology. With new chapters on...  Read More >>

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A significant update of the 1990 classic state-of-the-art handbook on medical anthropology. With new chapters on...  Read More >>