Medical anthropology books

Investigates the social and political dimensions of medical pluralism in the rural town of Kachitu, Bolivia. The...  Read More >>

A study of dwarfs in the ancient world which examines attitudes towards those whose appearance did not conform to...  Read More >>

The contributors to this study of medical anthropology examine the contexts in which all socially and culturally...  Read More >>

Aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to the methodology of population health research and an assessment...  Read More >>

These studies are concerned with the questions raised by literary works whose main themes revolve around contagious,...  Read More >>

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Judith Shuval discusses the health and health behaviour of a variety of groups in Israeli society that have not...  Read More >>

Zopf provides a comprehensive account of the biological components of mortality, its various forms and causes, and...  Read More >>

Emphasizes the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions, from Morocco...  Read More >>

A collection of essays in which use of diverse research strategies contribute to a reappraisal of the study of ethnomedicine....  Read More >>

The health impacts of changing behavior and lifestyle in a range of prehistoric, historic, and extant populations...  Read More >>

These essays ask how patients and practitioners know what they know - what evidence of disease or health they consider...  Read More >>

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A collection of essays in which use of diverse research strategies contribute to a reappraisal of the study of ethnomedicine....  Read More >>

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This is a book, which treats Western biomedical discourse about illness in Africa as a cultural system that constructed...  Read More >>

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This challenges the assumption that ""primitive"" societies are poor, ill and malnourished and that progress through...  Read More >>

This book, therefore, is timely: it provides valuable information on who the Hungarians are, where they come from...  Read More >>

Explores the world of surgeons from their own perspective how they perceive themselves, their work, colleagues,...  Read More >>

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First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

To uncover this nosological reality, Grmek has fashioned a vast array of techniques into a new, multidisciplinary...  Read More >>

This book is a history of the diseases of humankind and their causes from earliest times to the present day. It...  Read More >>

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