Medical anthropology books

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Quality and Regulation in Health Care: International Experiences

Quality and Regulation in Health Care: International...

Author: Robert Dingwall ,  Paul Fenn
ISBN: 9781032363103
Format: Hardback
$179.00

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

Metagenomic Futures: How Microbiome Research is Reconfiguring Health and What it Means to be Human

Metagenomic Futures: How Microbiome Research is Reconfiguring...

Author: Roberta Raffaetà
ISBN: 9781032068633
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book is an ethnographic exploration of what it means to be human from a more-than-human perspective, the microbial...  Read More >>

COVID-19 and Foreign Aid: Nationalism and Global Development in a New World Order

COVID-19 and Foreign Aid: Nationalism and Global Development...

Author: Viktor Jakupec ,  Max Kelly
ISBN: 9781032227115
Format: Paperback
$75.99

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

COVID-19 and Foreign Aid: Nationalism and Global Development in a New World Order

COVID-19 and Foreign Aid: Nationalism and Global Development...

Author: Viktor Jakupec ,  Max Kelly
ISBN: 9781032227146
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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

An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q'eqchi' Maya Medicine in Belize

An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q'eqchi'...

Author: James B. Waldram
ISBN: 9780826364449
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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

Insecure Masculinity: On the Impact of Societal Ideals of Masculinity on Men's Mental Health in Jamaica

Insecure Masculinity: On the Impact of Societal Ideals...

Author: Julia Faulhaber
ISBN: 9783658395896
Format: Paperback
$168.16

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Substance Use Disorders Treatment in Therapeutic Communities: A Cross-Cultural Approach

Substance Use Disorders Treatment in Therapeutic Communities:...

Author: Miroslav Horák ,  Nahanga Verter
ISBN: 9783031164583
Format: Hardback
$232.85

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

Community Intervention: Clinical Sociology Perspectives

Community Intervention: Clinical Sociology Perspectives...

Author: Jan Marie Fritz ,  Jacques Rhéaume
ISBN: 9783030936945
Format: Hardback
$232.85

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

Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health

Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution...

Author: Riadh Abed ,  Paul St John-Smith
ISBN: 9781316516560
Format: Hardback
$129.35

Evolution helps us to answer both 'why' as well as 'how' mental disorders arise. This book will be of interest to...  Read More >>

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Obstetric Fistula in Africa: Public Health, Anthropological, and Medical Perspectives

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Obstetric Fistula in...

Author: Laura Briggs Drew ,  Bonnie Ruder
ISBN: 9783031063138
Format: Hardback
$232.85

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

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

Borders across Healthcare: Moral Economies of Healthcare...

Author: Nina Sahraoui
ISBN: 9781800737228
Format: Paperback
$41.27

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

Sounds of Tohi: Cherokee Health and Well-Being in Southern Appalachia

Sounds of Tohi: Cherokee Health and Well-Being in Southern...

Author: Lisa J. Lefler ,  Thomas N. Belt
ISBN: 9780817321192
Format: Hardback
$131.87

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

The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation: Where Do Organs Come From?

The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation: Where...

Author: Hagai Boas (The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel)
ISBN: 9781032265674
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

Drugs and Public Health in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Soviet-Style Health Management

Drugs and Public Health in Post-Soviet Central Asia:...

Author: Muyassar Turaeva
ISBN: 9783031097027
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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

Making Bodies Kosher: The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England

Making Bodies Kosher: The Politics of Reproduction among...

Author: Ben Kasstan
ISBN: 9781800737204
Format: Paperback
$72.32

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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: 9780367512606
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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

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

Mental Health and Social Withdrawal in Contemporary...

Author: Nicolas Tajan
ISBN: 9780367645724
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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

Migration and Health: Critical Perspectives

Migration and Health: Critical Perspectives

Author: Heide Castañeda (University of South Florida, US)
ISBN: 9781138490437
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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

Cyborg Mind: What Brain-Computer and Mind-Cyberspace Interfaces Mean for Cyberneuroethics

Cyborg Mind: What Brain-Computer and Mind-Cyberspace...

Author: Calum MacKellar
ISBN: 9781800734531
Format: Paperback
$41.27

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Reproductive Citizenship: Technologies, Rights and Relationships

Reproductive Citizenship: Technologies, Rights and Relationships...

Author: Rhonda M. Shaw
ISBN: 9789811694509
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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

Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts: Case Studies from Japan

Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts: Case Studies...

Author: Susanne Brucksch ,  Kaori Sasaki
ISBN: 9789813362826
Format: Paperback
$284.60

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