Medical anthropology books

The concept of “Waithood” was developed by political scientist Diane Singerman to describe the expanding period...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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

Bringing an innovative methodological approach based on fifteen years of ethnographic research, James Waldram argues...  Read More >>

William LaFleur (1936-2010), an eminent scholar of Japanese studies, left behind a substantial number of influential...  Read More >>

First published in 1992, Quality and Regulation in Health Care employs socio-legal ideas concerning regulation to...  Read More >>

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This volume uses osteobiography and individual-level analyses of burials retrieved from the La Plata River Valley...  Read More >>

This book provides a timely, critical, and thought-provoking analysis of the implications of the disruption of COVID-19...  Read More >>

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This work focuses on the relationship between childhood socialization, masculinities, and young men’s coming of...  Read More >>

This book presents an in-depth qualitative study carried out with inpatients under treatment for substance use disorders...  Read More >>

This edition includes several new gender-focused chapters, addressing local level initiatives based on the recommendations...  Read More >>

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This book applies a multi-disciplinary lens to examine obstetric fistula, a childbirth injury that results from...  Read More >>

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Documents the many ways in which borders come to disrupt healthcare settings and illuminates how judgements of a...  Read More >>

Presents a dialogue between a medical anthropologist and a Cherokee linguist about health, well-being, and environmental...  Read More >>

This innovative work combines a rigorous academic analysis of the political economy of organ supply for transplantation...  Read More >>

The book outlines post-Soviet style of health management in Central Asia. Regional studies on Central Asia to date...  Read More >>