Medical anthropology books

This open access book deals with community-based attempts on the part of Aboriginal communities and groups in Australia...  Read More >>

Clinical Anthropology 2.0 presents a new approach to applied medical anthropology that highlights how medical anthropologists...  Read More >>

This book presents important concepts from medical and socio-cultural anthropology to health professionals working...  Read More >>

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Based on ethnographic fieldwork with families of migrating nurses from Kerala, India, Calling Family explores how...  Read More >>

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From khat to kava to ketamine, drugs are constitutive parts of cultures, identities, economies and livelihoods....  Read More >>

This book addresses responses to the predicament of medical and social infertility. It draws on international research...  Read More >>

First published in 1980, The limbo people is based upon research carried out in a day centre (‘the Centre’) for...  Read More >>

This Open Access book uses Mary Kaldor’s concept of “New Wars” to explore how ethnic conflict reshaped the social...  Read More >>

An insightful work on rural health in the United States that examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America...  Read More >>

An insightful work on rural health in the United States that examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America...  Read More >>

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Through an ethnohistorical chronicling of the emotionally-laden treatment of selected suicide media-events, this...  Read More >>

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This interdisciplinary collection examines the role that alcohol, tobacco and other drugs have played in framing...  Read More >>

The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection...  Read More >>

In this book, this sine qua non runs across the in-depth examination of the ways in which healthcare and public...  Read More >>

This book investigates the neuroscientific knowledge on addiction as an epistemic project.  Read More >>

Evidence for cardiovascular diseases found with ancient skeletons and mummies shows that they are not just a modern...  Read More >>

The pandemic has brought to the surface human fragilities that contradict the euphoria of the fourth industrial...  Read More >>

The pandemic has brought to the surface human fragilities that contradict the euphoria of the fourth industrial...  Read More >>

This Handbook offers an overview of the thriving and diverse field of anthropological studies of technology. It...  Read More >>

Based on fieldwork in Washington D.C, Navigating the Cultures of Health Care and Health Insurance analyses the use...  Read More >>

Based on fieldwork in Washington D.C, Navigating the Cultures of Health Care and Health Insurance analyses the use...  Read More >>