Medical anthropology books

919 books were found.

Clinical Anthropology 2.0: Improving Medical Education and Patient Experience

Clinical Anthropology 2.0: Improving Medical Education...

Author: Jason W. Wilson ,  Roberta D. Baer
ISBN: 9781498597685
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Clinical Anthropology 2.0 presents a new approach to applied medical anthropology that highlights how medical anthropologists...  Read More >>

Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health: From Policy Spaces to Sites of Practice

Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health:...

Author: Lauren J. Wallace ,  Margaret E. MacDonald
ISBN: 9783030845162
Format: Paperback
$90.54

This open access edited book brings together new research on the mechanisms by which maternal and reproductive health...  Read More >>

Configuring Contagion: Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics

Configuring Contagion: Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics...

Author: Lotte Meinert ,  Jens Seeberg
ISBN: 9781800733046
Format: Hardback
$256.16

Expanding our understanding of contagion further than typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens...  Read More >>

Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health: From Policy Spaces to Sites of Practice

Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health:...

Author: Lauren J. Wallace ,  Margaret E. MacDonald
ISBN: 9783030845131
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This open access edited book brings together new research on the mechanisms by which maternal and reproductive health...  Read More >>

Place and Professional Practice: The Geographies in Healthcare Work

Place and Professional Practice: The Geographies in...

Author: Gavin J. Andrews ,  Emma Rowland
ISBN: 9783030641818
Format: Paperback
$340.26

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Everybody's War: The Politics of Aid in the Syria Crisis

Everybody's War: The Politics of Aid in the Syria Crisis...

Author: Jehan Bseiso (Executive Director, Executive Director, Médecins Sans Frontières - Lebanon) ,  Michiel Hofman (Senior Humanitarian Specialist, Senior Humanitarian Specialist, Médecins Sans Frontières)
ISBN: 9780197514641
Format: Hardback
$69.95

Organized by Médecins Sans Frontières, Everybody's War brings together academics and humanitarian practitioners...  Read More >>

Poetry in the Clinic: Towards a Lyrical Medicine

Poetry in the Clinic: Towards a Lyrical Medicine

Author: Alan Bleakley ,  Shane Neilson
ISBN: 9781032047249
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book explores previously unexamined overlaps between the poetic imagination and the medical mind. It shows...  Read More >>

The Domestication of Humans

The Domestication of Humans

Author: Robert G. Bednarik
ISBN: 9781032237329
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The Domestication of Humans explains the alternative to the African Eve model by attributing human modernity, not...  Read More >>

Post-AIDS Discourse in Health Communication: Sociocultural Interpretations

Post-AIDS Discourse in Health Communication: Sociocultural...

Author: Ambar Basu (University of South Florida, USA) ,  Andrew R. Spieldenner (CSU-San Marcos, USA)
ISBN: 9780367430481
Format: Hardback
$284.00

"This book examines the discourse of a ""post-AIDS"" culture, and the medical-discursive shift from crisis and death...  Read More >>

Navigating Digital Health Landscapes: A Multidisciplinary Analysis

Navigating Digital Health Landscapes: A Multidisciplinary...

Author: Anna Lydia Svalastog ,  Srećko Gajović
ISBN: 9789811582080
Format: Paperback
$232.85

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

De-Sequencing: Identity Work with Genes

De-Sequencing: Identity Work with Genes

Author: Dana Mahr ,  Martina von Arx
ISBN: 9789811577307
Format: Paperback
$232.85

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

Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription: Overmedicalisation, Flawed Research, and Conflicts of Interest

Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription: Overmedicalisation,...

Author: Michael P. Hengartner
ISBN: 9783030825867
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book addresses the over-prescribing of antidepressants in people with mostly mild and subthreshold depression....  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: 9789811575846
Format: Paperback
$284.60

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

The Power of Parasites: Malaria as (un)conscious strategy

The Power of Parasites: Malaria as (un)conscious strategy...

Author: Dalia Iskander
ISBN: 9789811667633
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This book describes how malaria both frustrates and facilitates life for Indigenous Pälawan communities living...  Read More >>

Bioinformation Worlds and Futures

Bioinformation Worlds and Futures

Author: EJ Gonzalez-Polledo ,  Silvia Posocco
ISBN: 9780367409456
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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COVID-19: Proportionality, Public Policy and Social Distancing

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

Author: Peter Murphy
ISBN: 9789811575167
Format: Paperback
$142.29

COVID-19: Proportionality, Public Policy and Social Distance explores the social and political response to the COVID-19...  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: 9783030551063
Format: Paperback
$232.85

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

Near Human: Border Zones of Species, Life, and Belonging

Near Human: Border Zones of Species, Life, and Belonging...

Author: Mette N. Svendsen
ISBN: 9781978818217
Format: Paperback
$100.19

"Near Human is an ethnography of research piglets in biomedical experiments and premature human infants in clinical...  Read More >>

Childbirth in South Asia: Old Challenges and New Paradoxes

Childbirth in South Asia: Old Challenges and New Paradoxes...

Author: Clémence Jullien (CNRS research fellow, CNRS research fellow, Center for South Asian Studies (CEIAS), Paris) ,  Roger Jeffery (Professor, Professor, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9780190130718
Format: Hardback
$152.66

This book illustrates the continuing paradoxes as well as the new challenges linked to childbirth in India, Pakistan,...  Read More >>

Near Human: Border Zones of Species, Life, and Belonging

Near Human: Border Zones of Species, Life, and Belonging...

Author: Mette N. Svendsen
ISBN: 9781978818224
Format: Hardback
$396.00

"Near Human is an ethnography of research piglets in biomedical experiments and premature human infants in clinical...  Read More >>

The Ethnographic Radiographer

The Ethnographic Radiographer

Author: Ruth M. Strudwick
ISBN: 9789811672514
Format: Hardback
$142.29

Written from the perspective of a diagnostic radiography educator, t​his book introduces readers to ethnography...  Read More >>

Sharing the Burden of Sickness: A History of Healing and Medicine in Accra

Sharing the Burden of Sickness: A History of Healing...

Author: Jonathan Roberts
ISBN: 9780253057938
Format: Paperback
$70.95

A medical history of Accra that accounts for plural medical traditions and multiple notions of health and healing....  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction

The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction...

Author: Sallie Han ,  Cecília Tomori
ISBN: 9780367278366
Format: Hardback
$452.00

This book is a comprehensive overview of the topics, approaches, and trajectories in the anthropological study of...  Read More >>

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