Medical anthropology books

It outlines an alternative for researchers and writers that can allow one individual to tune in to another individual...  Read More >>

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This text explores overlapping layers of voices that convey the social relations of psychiatric survivor participation...  Read More >>

This text discusses the malady of post-traumatic stress disorder. It is part history and part ethnography, and includes...  Read More >>

Based on the author's fieldwork among the people of Zezuru, this title focuses on children as clients and as healers...  Read More >>

This text explores overlapping layers of voices that convey the social relations of psychiatric survivor participation...  Read More >>

In an effort to explain why AIDS education efforts failed to stop clients from practicing unsafe sex, E.J. Sobo...  Read More >>

This introduction to medical anthropology covers a range of interests, including cultural studies, ethnic studies,...  Read More >>

Asks why indigenous methods of fertility control, often of questionable effectiveness, remain in widespread use...  Read More >>

Classical archaeology is examined in the light of current theoretical archaeology and anthropology, so making it...  Read More >>

`A good history of public health developments, primarily in Australia and England, the book is a continuation of...  Read More >>

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This text compares North American and Japanese medical and political accounts of female middle age, together with...  Read More >>

An investigation into the impact of European colonial policies on the health and disease of the Sri Lankan population....  Read More >>

This volume highlights advances made in palaeopathology and demography through the analyses of historic cemeteries....  Read More >>

Sufferers, finding that chronic pain alters every aspect of life, often become frustrated and distrust a profession...  Read More >>

Why has the female rather than the male body become increasingly subjected to hormonal treatment? Oudshoorn challenges...  Read More >>

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In 1882, Robert Koch discovered the TB bacillus, signaling a redirection of medical thinking from the trial and...  Read More >>

Based on an ethnographic study of the traditional medicine of African Americans in the rural southern United States,...  Read More >>

This study critically examines the implications of Foucault's work for students and researchers in a wide selection...  Read More >>

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The etiology of the Wimbum people in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon is described through an examination of...  Read More >>

This book is intended to demonstrate the application of analytic geography and cartographic techniques in health...  Read More >>

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