Medical anthropology books

919 books were found.

Embodying Borders: A Migrant's Right to Health, Universal Rights and Local Policies

Embodying Borders: A Migrant's Right to Health, Universal...

Author: Laura Ferrero ,  Ana Cristina Vargas
ISBN: 9781789209259
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Based on extensive field research, the essays in this volume illuminate the experiences of migrants from their own...  Read More >>

Biomedicine, Healing and Modernity in Rural Bangladesh

Biomedicine, Healing and Modernity in Rural Bangladesh...

Author: Md. Faruk Shah
ISBN: 9789813291454
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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Place and Professional Practice: The Geographies in Healthcare Work

Place and Professional Practice: The Geographies in...

Author: Gavin J. Andrews ,  Emma Rowland
ISBN: 9783030641788
Format: Hardback
$336.35

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Mental Health and Social Withdrawal in Contemporary Japan: Beyond the Hikikomori Spectrum

Mental Health and Social Withdrawal in Contemporary...

Author: Nicolas Tajan
ISBN: 9780815365747
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines the phenomenon of social withdrawal in Japan, which ranges from school non-attendance to extreme...  Read More >>

The Covid-19 Reader: The Science and What It Says About the Social

The Covid-19 Reader: The Science and What It Says About...

Author: William Cockerham ,  Geoffrey Cockerham
ISBN: 9780367682286
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This reader offers the most important writing to date from the science of COVID-19 and what science says for its...  Read More >>

Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier: Speaking Truth to Power

Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier: Speaking...

Author: Betty-Anne Daviss ,  Robbie Davis-Floyd
ISBN: 9780367357924
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book addresses the politics of global health and social justice issues around birth, focusing on dynamic communities...  Read More >>

The Covid-19 Reader: The Science and What It Says About the Social

The Covid-19 Reader: The Science and What It Says About...

Author: William Cockerham ,  Geoffrey Cockerham
ISBN: 9780367693305
Format: Hardback
$347.00

This reader offers the most important writing to date from the science of COVID-19 and what science says for its...  Read More >>

Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier: Speaking Truth to Power

Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier: Speaking...

Author: Betty-Anne Daviss ,  Robbie Davis-Floyd
ISBN: 9780367357917
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book addresses the politics of global health and social justice issues around birth, focusing on dynamic communities...  Read More >>

Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Social and Historical Perspectives

Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan...

Author: Megan Vaughan ,  Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo
ISBN: 9781787357051
Format: Paperback
$77.63

New perspectives on the changing epidemiology of sub-Saharan Africa. Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease...  Read More >>

Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Social and Historical Perspectives

Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan...

Author: Megan Vaughan ,  Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo
ISBN: 9781787357068
Format: Hardback
$129.38

New perspectives on the changing epidemiology of sub-Saharan Africa. Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Cultural Safety: Cultural Diversity for Global Healthcare

An Introduction to Cultural Safety: Cultural Diversity...

Author: Fran Richardson (Charles Darwin University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781138887121
Format: Hardback
$200.00

An Introduction to Cultural Safety defines, examines and positions the concept of cultural safety, until now associated...  Read More >>

Medical Anthropology in Europe: Shaping the Field

Medical Anthropology in Europe: Shaping the Field

Author: Elisabeth Hsu (University of Oxford, UK) ,  Caroline Potter (University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9780367739379
Format: Paperback
$95.71

This collection brings together three generations of medical anthropologists working at European universities to...  Read More >>

The Coronavirus: Human, Social and Political Implications

The Coronavirus: Human, Social and Political Implications...

Author: James Miller
ISBN: 9789811593611
Format: Hardback
$142.29

This book describes and analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the relationship between the United States and China...  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: 9781789208993
Format: Hardback
$276.86

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

De-Sequencing: Identity Work with Genes

De-Sequencing: Identity Work with Genes

Author: Dana Mahr ,  Martina von Arx
ISBN: 9789811577277
Format: Hardback
$232.85

The book unpacks this type of ‘sequence-speech’ in engaging detail, adopting a personal, social, cultural, and bio-political...  Read More >>

Navigating Digital Health Landscapes: A Multidisciplinary Analysis

Navigating Digital Health Landscapes: A Multidisciplinary...

Author: Anna Lydia Svalastog ,  Srećko Gajović
ISBN: 9789811582059
Format: Hardback
$232.85

Navigating Digital Health Landscapes explores how users navigate the internet when searching for health information....  Read More >>

From Measuring Rods to DNA Sequencing: Assessing the Human

From Measuring Rods to DNA Sequencing: Assessing the...

Author: Ingrid Voléry ,  Marie-Pierre Julien
ISBN: 9789811575815
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book provides a solid basis to understand two centuries of bodily measurement practices and their scientific...  Read More >>

5 Appetites: Eat Like the Animals for a Naturally Healthy Diet

5 Appetites: Eat Like the Animals for a Naturally Healthy...

Author: David Raubenheimer ,  Stephen J. Simpson
ISBN: 9780008359256
Format: Paperback
$25.85

A New Scientist Best Book of 2020 How is it that a baboon and a blob of slime mould instinctively know...  Read More >>

Ancestral Diets and Nutrition

Ancestral Diets and Nutrition

Author: Christopher Cumo
ISBN: 9780367235987
Format: Paperback
$124.00

Ancestral Diets and Nutrition supplies dietary advice based on the study of prehuman and human populations worldwide...  Read More >>

COVID-19: Proportionality, Public Policy and Social Distancing

COVID-19: Proportionality, Public Policy and Social...

Author: Peter Murphy
ISBN: 9789811575136
Format: Hardback
$142.29

COVID-19: Proportionality, Public Policy and Social Distance explores the social and political response to the COVID-19...  Read More >>

Ancestral Diets and Nutrition

Ancestral Diets and Nutrition

Author: Christopher Cumo
ISBN: 9780367236090
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Ancestral Diets and Nutrition supplies dietary advice based on the study of prehuman and human populations worldwide...  Read More >>

Judaism in Motion: The Making of Same-Sex Parenthood in Israel

Judaism in Motion: The Making of Same-Sex Parenthood...

Author: Sibylle Lustenberger
ISBN: 9783030551032
Format: Hardback
$232.85

In Israel, where the Orthodox rabbinate wields historically sanctioned influence over the legal definitions of marriage...  Read More >>

The Corseted Skeleton: A Bioarchaeology of Binding

The Corseted Skeleton: A Bioarchaeology of Binding

Author: Rebecca Gibson
ISBN: 9783030503918
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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