Medical anthropology books

Integrates archival and ethnographic material to explore healthcare concerns over time  Original study of Haredi...  Read More >>

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Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures puts historical illness concepts in cross-cultural perspective,...  Read More >>

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Migration and Health offers a radical rethinking of the field by unsettling conventional ideas of mobility and borders...  Read More >>

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

This book explores the ways in which socio-technical settings in medical contexts find varying articulations in...  Read More >>

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Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners...  Read More >>

This is the history of the grassroots anti-vaccination movement in nineteenth-century Cornwall. The book examines...  Read More >>

Holistic approach to infant feeding Combines biological and cultural approaches to infant feeding in a single...  Read More >>

Now in its third edition, this four-field introduction to anthropology shows students how anthropologists think...  Read More >>

Interweaving ethnography and autoethnography, this book documents the emergence of doulas as care professionals...  Read More >>

Despite the centrality of migration in our contemporary world, scholarship on mobility and health frequently separates...  Read More >>

This book reexamines the ""standard"" procedures used to ""manage"" American childbirth, identifying non-evidence-based...  Read More >>

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This book tells the story of the HIV epidemic in South Africa, and asks why, after more than three decades, it has...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Archaeothanatology spans the gap between archaeology and biological anthropology, the...  Read More >>

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

This book centers on negotiations around cultural, governmental, and individual constructions of COVID-19. It considers...  Read More >>

Students of Health Studies need a multidisciplinary theoretical text that bridges social, behavioural and biological...  Read More >>

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