Medical anthropology books

919 books were found.

Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine

Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine

Author: Vivienne Lo ,  Michael Stanley-Baker
ISBN: 9780415830645
Format: Hardback
$368.00

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine is an extensive guide to the nature of traditional medicine and healing...  Read More >>

Vaccination Wars: Cornwall in the Nineteenth Century

Vaccination Wars: Cornwall in the Nineteenth Century...

Author: Ella Stewart-Peters
ISBN: 9781804130001
Format: Hardback
$207.00

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

The Dance of Nurture: Negotiating Infant Feeding

The Dance of Nurture: Negotiating Infant Feeding

Author: Penny Van Esterik ,  Richard A. O'Connor
ISBN: 9781800734562
Format: Paperback
$72.32

The Dance of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding to detail the efforts...  Read More >>

Through the Lens of Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture, Third Edition

Through the Lens of Anthropology: An Introduction to...

Author: Bob Muckle ,  Laura Tubelle de González
ISBN: 9781487540159
Format: Paperback
$150.00

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

Migration and Health: Challenging the Borders of Belonging, Care, and Policy

Migration and Health: Challenging the Borders of Belonging,...

Author: Nadia El-Shaarawi ,  Stephanie Larchanche
ISBN: 9781800735019
Format: Hardback
$256.16

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

Doulas in Italy: The Emergence of a 'New' Care Profession

Doulas in Italy: The Emergence of a 'New' Care Profession...

Author: Pamela Pasian
ISBN: 9780367762063
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

Birth as an American Rite of Passage

Birth as an American Rite of Passage

Author: Robbie Davis-Floyd (University of Texas, Austin, United States of America) ,  Melissa Cheyney
ISBN: 9780367428501
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

The Routledge Handbook of Archaeothanatology: Bioarchaeology of Mortuary Behaviour

The Routledge Handbook of Archaeothanatology: Bioarchaeology...

Author: Christopher J. Knüsel ,  Eline M. J. Schotsmans
ISBN: 9781138492424
Format: Hardback
$452.00

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

Public Secrets and Private Sufferings in the South African AIDS Epidemic

Public Secrets and Private Sufferings in the South African...

Author: Jonathan Stadler
ISBN: 9783030694395
Format: Paperback
$284.60

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

Negotiating the Pandemic: Cultural, National, and Individual Constructions of COVID-19

Negotiating the Pandemic: Cultural, National, and Individual...

Author: Inayat Ali ,  Robbie Davis-Floyd (University of Texas, Austin, United States of America)
ISBN: 9781032028408
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

Health Studies: An Introduction

Health Studies: An Introduction

Author: Jennie Naidoo ,  Jane Wills
ISBN: 9789811621482
Format: Paperback
$103.47

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Coping Rituals in Fearful Times: An Unexplored Resource for Healing Trauma

Coping Rituals in Fearful Times: An Unexplored Resource...

Author: Jeltje Gordon-Lennox
ISBN: 9783030815332
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This collection of articles reveals ritual to be a unique and powerful asset in healing trauma and broken relationships. Each...  Read More >>

Eating Disorders and Child Sexual Abuse

Eating Disorders and Child Sexual Abuse

Author: Lisa Hodge
ISBN: 9789813362987
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This book takes up the challenge of examining women’s understandings of eating disorders and child sexual abuse...  Read More >>

Anthropology in Medical Education: Sustaining Engagement and Impact

Anthropology in Medical Education: Sustaining Engagement...

Author: Iveris Martinez ,  Dennis W. Wiedman
ISBN: 9783030622794
Format: Paperback
$142.29

This volume reflects on how anthropologists have engaged in medical education and aims to positively influence the...  Read More >>

Asian Medical Industries: Contemporary Perspectives on Traditional Pharmaceuticals

Asian Medical Industries: Contemporary Perspectives...

Author: Stephan Kloos ,  Calum Blaikie
ISBN: 9781032110226
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book develops the concept of Asian Medical Industries as a novel perspective on traditional Asian medicines....  Read More >>

Bones and Bodies: How South African Scientists Studied Race

Bones and Bodies: How South African Scientists Studied...

Author: Alan G. Morris
ISBN: 9781776147236
Format: Paperback
$90.56

Offer a highly accessible account of the establishment of the scientific discipline of biological anthropology....  Read More >>

Species of Contagion: Animal-to-Human Transplantation in the Age of Emerging Infectious Disease

Species of Contagion: Animal-to-Human Transplantation...

Author: Ray Carr
ISBN: 9789811682889
Format: Hardback
$232.85

While many xenotransplantation practices resonate with a security approach that renders uncertainty an inherent...  Read More >>

Rehabilitation in Practice: Ethnographic Perspectives

Rehabilitation in Practice: Ethnographic Perspectives...

Author: Christopher M. Hayre ,  Dave J. Muller
ISBN: 9789811683169
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This book focuses on developing the use of ethnographic research for rehabilitation practitioners by recognizing...  Read More >>

Reconstructing Lives: Victims of War in the Middle East and MéDecins Sans FrontièRes

Reconstructing Lives: Victims of War in the Middle East...

Author: Vanja Kovacic
ISBN: 9781526161611
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Through the narrations of war-injured individuals and MSF humanitarian workers, the book explores healing and rehabilitation...  Read More >>

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