Medical anthropology books

936 books were found.

Theoretical Approaches in Bioarchaeology

Theoretical Approaches in Bioarchaeology

Author: Colleen M. Cheverko ,  Julia R. Prince-Buitenhuys
ISBN: 9780367205737
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Theoretical Approaches in Bioarchaeology emphasizes how several different theoretical perspectives can be used to...  Read More >>

Bone Health: A Reflection of the Social Mosaic

Bone Health: A Reflection of the Social Mosaic

Author: Justyna J. Miszkiewicz ,  Sharon L. Brennan-Olsen
ISBN: 9789811372582
Format: Paperback
$194.04

Given its scope, the book offers a valuable resource for researchers, academics, and students in the fields of medicine,...  Read More >>

The Gendered Landscape of Suicide: Masculinities, Emotions, and Culture

The Gendered Landscape of Suicide: Masculinities, Emotions,...

Author: Anne Cleary
ISBN: 9783030166366
Format: Paperback
$116.41

These men produced compelling accounts of their emotional pain which belied notions of male inexpressiveness but...  Read More >>

Life and Death in the Gombe Chimpanzees: Skeletal Analysis as an Insight into Life History

Life and Death in the Gombe Chimpanzees: Skeletal Analysis...

Author: Claire A. Kirchhoff
ISBN: 9783030183578
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book addresses how skeletons can inform us about behavior by describing skeletal lesions in the Gombe chimpanzees,...  Read More >>

Depression in Kerala: Ayurveda and Mental Health Care in 21st Century India

Depression in Kerala: Ayurveda and Mental Health Care...

Author: Claudia Lang
ISBN: 9780367589585
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines depression as a widely diagnosed and treated common mental disorder in India and offers a significant...  Read More >>

Language, Dementia and Meaning Making: Navigating Challenges of Cognition and Face in Everyday Life

Language, Dementia and Meaning Making: Navigating Challenges...

Author: Heidi E. Hamilton
ISBN: 9783030120238
Format: Paperback
$116.41

In doing so, this work reveals how changes in cognition may impact the faces of these individuals, leading some...  Read More >>

A Portrait of Assisted Reproduction in Mexico: Scientific, Political, and Cultural Interactions

A Portrait of Assisted Reproduction in Mexico: Scientific,...

Author: Sandra P. González-Santos
ISBN: 9783030230432
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book paints a comprehensive portrait of Mexico’s system of assisted reproduction first from a historical perspective,...  Read More >>

Being a Sperm Donor: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Biosociality in Denmark

Being a Sperm Donor: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Biosociality...

Author: Sebastian Mohr
ISBN: 9781789208122
Format: Paperback
$61.97

Through ethnographic explorations of the everyday lives of Danish sperm donors, Being a Sperm Donor explores how...  Read More >>

The Global Age-Friendly Community Movement: A Critical Appraisal

The Global Age-Friendly Community Movement: A Critical...

Author: Philip B. Stafford
ISBN: 9781789207996
Format: Paperback
$72.32

This book provides an introduction to the global phenomenon of the age-friendly community movement, through an extensive...  Read More >>

Secrecy and Responsibility in the Era of an Epidemic: Letters from Uganda

Secrecy and Responsibility in the Era of an Epidemic:...

Author: Hanne Overgaard Mogensen
ISBN: 9783030475222
Format: Hardback
$206.97

A narrative ethnography about a Ugandan woman and her relatives, this novelistic, fine-grained volume shows how...  Read More >>

Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures: Sickness, Health, and Local Epistemologies

Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures:...

Author: Ulrike Steinert (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany.)
ISBN: 9781138571129
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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

Health, Technology and Society: Critical Inquiries

Health, Technology and Society: Critical Inquiries

Author: Andrew Webster ,  Sally Wyatt
ISBN: 9789811543531
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book celebrates and captures examples of the excellent scholarship that Palgrave’s Health, Technology, and...  Read More >>

Biomedical Entanglements: Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society

Biomedical Entanglements: Conceptions of Personhood...

Author: Franziska A. Herbst
ISBN: 9781789208221
Format: Paperback
$72.32

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Diagnosis Narratives and the Healing Ritual in Western Medicine

Diagnosis Narratives and the Healing Ritual in Western...

Author: James Meza
ISBN: 9780367588519
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The dominance of ‘illness narratives’ in narrative healing studies has tended to mean that the focus centres around...  Read More >>

The Primate Zoonoses: Culture Change and Emerging Diseases

The Primate Zoonoses: Culture Change and Emerging Diseases...

Author: Loretta A. Cormier (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA) ,  Pauline E. Jolly
ISBN: 9780367607326
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This book offers an accessible and up-to-date reference on primate zoonoses. Recent years have witnessed a rise...  Read More >>

The Anthropology of Epidemics

The Anthropology of Epidemics

Author: Ann H. Kelly ,  Frédéric Keck
ISBN: 9780367581947
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and events which encompass...  Read More >>

Studies in Forensic Biohistory: Anthropological Perspectives

Studies in Forensic Biohistory: Anthropological Perspectives...

Author: Christopher M. Stojanowski (Arizona State University) ,  William N. Duncan (East Tennessee State University)
ISBN: 9781107423145
Format: Paperback
$100.89

For decades anthropologists and other scientists have participated in 'post-mortem dissections' of the lives of...  Read More >>

Borders across Healthcare: Moral Economies of Healthcare and Migration in Europe

Borders across Healthcare: Moral Economies of Healthcare...

Author: Nina Sahraoui
ISBN: 9781789207415
Format: Hardback
$256.16

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

Transforming Cities: Contested Governance and New Spatial Divisions

Transforming Cities: Contested Governance and New Spatial...

Author: Nick Jewson ,  Susanne Macgregor
ISBN: 9780815347279
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Transforming Cities examines the profound changes that have characterised cities of the advanced capitalist societies...  Read More >>

AIDS in the Shadow of Biomedicine: Inside South Africa's Epidemic

AIDS in the Shadow of Biomedicine: Inside South Africa's...

Author: Isak Niehaus
ISBN: 9781786994745
Format: Paperback
$46.99

An in-depth ethnographic exploration of how the AIDs pandemic has played out at a local level in South Africa, revealing...  Read More >>

Médecins Sans Frontières and Humanitarian Situations: An Anthropological Exploration

Médecins Sans Frontières and Humanitarian Situations:...

Author: Jean-François Véran ,  Doris Burtscher
ISBN: 9780367419998
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book explores the interaction between anthropology and humanitarianism, focused on the organization Médecins...  Read More >>

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