Medical anthropology books

929 books were found.

Ethnomedicine and Tribal Healing Practices in India: Challenges and Possibilities of Recognition and Integration

Ethnomedicine and Tribal Healing Practices in India:...

Author: Sunita Reddy ,  Nemthianngai Guite
ISBN: 9789811942853
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This book examines various aspects of ethnomedicine and tribal healing practices, including its importance for inclusion...  Read More >>

Species of Contagion: Animal-to-Human Transplantation in the Age of Emerging Infectious Disease

Species of Contagion: Animal-to-Human Transplantation...

Author: Ray Carr
ISBN: 9789811682919
Format: Paperback
$232.85

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Rehabilitation in Practice: Ethnographic Perspectives

Rehabilitation in Practice: Ethnographic Perspectives...

Author: Christopher M. Hayre ,  Dave J. Muller
ISBN: 9789811683190
Format: Paperback
$310.47

This book focuses on developing the use of ethnographic research for rehabilitation practitioners by recognizing...  Read More >>

Toxic Disruptions: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Urban India

Toxic Disruptions: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Urban...

Author: Gauri S. Pathak (Aarhus University, Denmark)
ISBN: 9780367774462
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book provides a unique ethnographic account of women living with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in India....  Read More >>

Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health in South Africa

Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and...

Author: Anna Versfeld
ISBN: 9781978822474
Format: Paperback
$81.71

Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health explores what happens when tuberculosis...  Read More >>

Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health in South Africa

Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and...

Author: Anna Versfeld
ISBN: 9781978822481
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health explores what happens when tuberculosis...  Read More >>

Moral Figures: Making Reproduction Public in Vanuatu

Moral Figures: Making Reproduction Public in Vanuatu...

Author: Alexandra Widmer
ISBN: 9781487543211
Format: Paperback
$54.31

Moral Figures examines entanglements of quantified population indicators, medical birthing practices, and Indigenous...  Read More >>

Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19...

Author: Robert Desjarlais ,  Sabina M. Perrino
ISBN: 9783031191923
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This volume, written in a readable and enticing style, is based on a simple premise, which was to have several exceptional...  Read More >>

Young People, Violence and Strategic Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Young People, Violence and Strategic Interventions in...

Author: Kammila Naidoo ,  Oluwafemi Adeagbo
ISBN: 9783031206788
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This interdisciplinary and cross-cutting volume serves as a vital resource for experts at universities, in international...  Read More >>

This Mortal Coil: A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year

This Mortal Coil: A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book...

Author: Andrew Doig
ISBN: 9781526624390
Format: Paperback
$22.99

An entertaining, eye-opening work of popular history that illuminates how death has changed across time  Read More >>

Cancer and the Politics of Care: Inequalities and Interventions in Global Perspective

Cancer and the Politics of Care: Inequalities and Interventions...

Author: Linda Rae Bennett ,  Lenore Manderson
ISBN: 9781800080744
Format: Paperback
$51.75

Cancer and the Politics of Care presents new thinking on how social, economic, race, gender and other structural...  Read More >>

Cancer and the Politics of Care: Inequalities and Interventions in Global Perspective

Cancer and the Politics of Care: Inequalities and Interventions...

Author: Linda Rae Bennett ,  Lenore Manderson
ISBN: 9781800080751
Format: Hardback
$103.50

Cancer and the Politics of Care presents new thinking on how social, economic, race, gender and other structural...  Read More >>

Moral Figures: Making Reproduction Public in Vanuatu

Moral Figures: Making Reproduction Public in Vanuatu...

Author: Alexandra Widmer
ISBN: 9781487543204
Format: Hardback
$139.73

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The Nursing Profession and the Marriage Bar: Crisp White Uniform

The Nursing Profession and the Marriage Bar: Crisp White...

Author: Breda McTaggart
ISBN: 9789811970320
Format: Hardback
$90.54

This book explores Ireland's Marriage Bar, examining its impact on women's lives and the predominantly feminised...  Read More >>

Sumud: Birth, Oral History, and Persisting in Palestine

Sumud: Birth, Oral History, and Persisting in Palestine...

Author: Livia Wick
ISBN: 9780815637882
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Opens a window onto the lives of Palestinians, exploring specifically the experience of giving birth. Drawing upon...  Read More >>

Sumud: Birth, Oral History, and Persisting in Palestine

Sumud: Birth, Oral History, and Persisting in Palestine...

Author: Livia Wick
ISBN: 9780815637790
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Opens a window onto the lives of Palestinians, exploring specifically the experience of giving birth. Drawing upon...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology

The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology

Author: Anne L. Grauer (Loyola University Chicago)
ISBN: 9780367640675
Format: Hardback
$410.00

The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology provides readers with an overview of the study of ancient disease.  Read More >>

Koro: Clinical and Historical Developments of the Culturally Defined Genital Retraction Disorder

Koro: Clinical and Historical Developments of the Culturally...

Author: Arabinda Narayan Chowdhury
ISBN: 9783030879648
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book provides a definitive account of koro, a topic of long-standing interest in the field of cultural psychiatry...  Read More >>

Waithood: Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing

Waithood: Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage...

Author: Marcia C. Inhorn ,  Nancy J. Smith-Hefner
ISBN: 9781800736290
Format: Paperback
$93.15

The contributors to this volume employ the waithood concept as a frame for richly detailed ethnographic studies...  Read More >>

Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription: Overmedicalisation, Flawed Research, and Conflicts of Interest

Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription: Overmedicalisation,...

Author: Michael P. Hengartner
ISBN: 9783030825898
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book addresses the over-prescribing of antidepressants in people with mostly mild and subthreshold depression....  Read More >>

The Science of Life: Andrew Huxley, Richard Keynes and Horace Barlow

The Science of Life: Andrew Huxley, Richard Keynes and...

Author: Alan Macfarlane ,  Radha Béteille
ISBN: 9781032405063
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians,...  Read More >>

Infertility in a Crowded Country: Hiding Reproduction in India

Infertility in a Crowded Country: Hiding Reproduction...

Author: Holly Donahue Singh
ISBN: 9780253063878
Format: Paperback
$61.75

In Lucknow, the capital of India's most populous state, the stigmas and colonial legacies surrounding sexual propriety...  Read More >>

Digital Healthcare and Expertise: Mental Health and New Knowledge Practices

Digital Healthcare and Expertise: Mental Health and...

Author: Claudia Egher
ISBN: 9789811691775
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This open access book explores how expertise about bipolar disorder is performed on American and French digital...  Read More >>

The Power of Parasites: Malaria as (un)conscious strategy

The Power of Parasites: Malaria as (un)conscious strategy...

Author: Dalia Iskander
ISBN: 9789811667664
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book describes how malaria both frustrates and facilitates life for Indigenous Pälawan communities living...  Read More >>

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