Medical anthropology books

919 books were found.

Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, Sixth Edition

Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, Sixth...

Author: Paul A. Erickson ,  Liam D. Murphy
ISBN: 9781487526320
Format: Paperback
$140.00

The sixth edition of this bestselling reader offers a comprehensive collection of readings critical to the understanding...  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: 9780253057945
Format: Hardback
$170.95

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

An Anthropology of Gender Variance and Trans Experience in Naples: Beauty in Transit

An Anthropology of Gender Variance and Trans Experience...

Author: Marzia Mauriello
ISBN: 9783030869236
Format: Hardback
$142.29

This book recounts the author’s fieldwork among the trans and gender-variant communities in Naples.  Read More >>

Managing Chronicity in Unequal States: Ethnographic Perspectives on Caring

Managing Chronicity in Unequal States: Ethnographic...

Author: Laura Montesi ,  Melania Calestani
ISBN: 9781800080294
Format: Paperback
$51.75

Managing Chronicity in Unequal States investigates how people live with chronic conditions in different contexts...  Read More >>

Managing Chronicity in Unequal States: Ethnographic Perspectives on Caring

Managing Chronicity in Unequal States: Ethnographic...

Author: Laura Montesi ,  Melania Calestani
ISBN: 9781800080300
Format: Hardback
$103.50

Managing Chronicity in Unequal States investigates how people live with chronic conditions in different contexts...  Read More >>

Childlessness in Bangladesh: Intersectionality, Suffering and Resilience

Childlessness in Bangladesh: Intersectionality, Suffering...

Author: Papreen Nahar
ISBN: 9780367504854
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines the intersectionality and stratified lived experience of rural poor and urban middle-class childless...  Read More >>

Negotiated Breastfeeding: Holistic Postpartum Care and Embodied Parenting

Negotiated Breastfeeding: Holistic Postpartum Care and...

Author: Caroline Chautems
ISBN: 9780367643522
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Immobility and Medicine: Exploring Stillness, Waiting and the In-Between

Immobility and Medicine: Exploring Stillness, Waiting...

Author: Cecilia Vindrola-Padros ,  Bruno Vindrola-Padros
ISBN: 9789811549786
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This edited volume brings the concept of immobility to the forefront of social studies of medicine to explore how...  Read More >>

Banking on Milk: An Ethnography of Donor Human Milk Relations

Banking on Milk: An Ethnography of Donor Human Milk...

Author: Tanya Cassidy (University of Central Lancashire, UK) ,  Fiona Dykes (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
ISBN: 9781032178059
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Banking on Milk takes the reader on a journey through the everyday life of donor human milk banking across the UK...  Read More >>

Suckling: Kinship More Fluid

Suckling: Kinship More Fluid

Author: Fadwa El Guindi (UCLA, USA)
ISBN: 9781032174020
Format: Paperback
$83.99

A ground-breaking ethnographic study of suckling in the Arabian Gulf , this book reenergises the study of kinship....  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Post-Prohibition Cannabis Research

The Routledge Handbook of Post-Prohibition Cannabis...

Author: Dominic Corva ,  Joshua Meisel
ISBN: 9780367335434
Format: Hardback
$452.00

This handbook explores new landscapes of post-prohibition cannabis research. Dealing with governance, public health,...  Read More >>

Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of Covid-19

Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of...

Author: Lenore Manderson ,  Nancy J. Burke
ISBN: 9781800080249
Format: Paperback
$64.69

Viral Loads provides a global response to the COVID-19 pandemic from the field of medical anthropology.  Read More >>

Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of Covid-19

Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of...

Author: Lenore Manderson ,  Nancy J. Burke
ISBN: 9781800080256
Format: Hardback
$116.44

Viral Loads provides a global response to the COVID-19 pandemic from the field of medical anthropology.  Read More >>

How is a Man Supposed to be a Man?: Male Childlessness - a Life Course Disrupted

How is a Man Supposed to be a Man?: Male Childlessness...

Author: Robin A Hadley
ISBN: 9781800731875
Format: Hardback
$276.86

This unique book examines the lived experiences of a hidden and disenfranchised population: men who wanted to be...  Read More >>

Locating Zika: Social Change and Governance in an Age of Mosquito Pandemics

Locating Zika: Social Change and Governance in an Age...

Author: Kevin Bardosh
ISBN: 9781032082226
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book locates the 2016 Zika epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean within its broader biosocial and historical...  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: 9783030475253
Format: Paperback
$206.97

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

Routledge International Handbook of Critical Issues in Health and Illness

Routledge International Handbook of Critical Issues...

Author: Kerry Chamberlain ,  Antonia Lyons (Victoria University, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781032027951
Format: Hardback
$452.00

This multidisciplinary reference book brings together cutting-edge health and illness topics from around the globe....  Read More >>

Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals

Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals...

Author: Vania Smith-Oka
ISBN: 9781978819658
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Explores the transformation of medical students into medical selves. Anthropologist Vania Smith-Oka provides a close-up...  Read More >>

Health, Technology and Society: Critical Inquiries

Health, Technology and Society: Critical Inquiries

Author: Andrew Webster ,  Sally Wyatt
ISBN: 9789811543562
Format: Paperback
$232.85

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

Treating Heroin Addiction in Norway: The Pharmaceutical Other

Treating Heroin Addiction in Norway: The Pharmaceutical...

Author: Aleksandra Bartoszko
ISBN: 9780367655549
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Focusing on the world of Norwegian opioid substitution treatment (OST) in the aftermath of significant reforms,...  Read More >>

Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology: Bonified Skeletons

Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology: Bonified Skeletons...

Author: Heather M. Garvin ,  Natalie R. Langley
ISBN: 9781032086569
Format: Paperback
$116.00

Through a set of unique cases presented by a diverse international group of practicing forensic anthropologists,...  Read More >>

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