Medical anthropology books

919 books were found.

Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts: Case Studies from Japan

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

Author: Susanne Brucksch ,  Kaori Sasaki
ISBN: 9789813362796
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals

Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals...

Author: Vania Smith-Oka
ISBN: 9781978819665
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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

A History of Anthropological Theory, Sixth Edition

A History of Anthropological Theory, Sixth Edition

Author: Paul A. Erickson ,  Liam D. Murphy
ISBN: 9781487507299
Format: Hardback
$270.00

The sixth edition of this bestselling text offers a concise history of anthropological theory from antiquity to...  Read More >>

The Perfect Vagina: Cosmetic Surgery in the Twenty-First Century

The Perfect Vagina: Cosmetic Surgery in the Twenty-First...

Author: Lindy McDougall
ISBN: 9780253056139
Format: Paperback
$47.95

The Perfect Vagina highlights the complexities involved with Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery, its role in Western...  Read More >>

The Perfect Vagina: Cosmetic Surgery in the Twenty-First Century

The Perfect Vagina: Cosmetic Surgery in the Twenty-First...

Author: Lindy McDougall
ISBN: 9780253056115
Format: Hardback
$160.95

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amaXhosa Circumcision: Stories of Manhood and Mental Health

amaXhosa Circumcision: Stories of Manhood and Mental...

Author: Lauraine M. H. Vivian
ISBN: 9780367211172
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book investigates amaXhosa circumcision and the psychological processes involved. Lauraine Vivian employs concepts...  Read More >>

A History of Anthropological Theory, Sixth Edition

A History of Anthropological Theory, Sixth Edition

Author: Paul A. Erickson ,  Liam D. Murphy
ISBN: 9781487524982
Format: Paperback
$89.99

The sixth edition of this bestselling text offers a concise history of anthropological theory from antiquity to...  Read More >>

Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean: Encounters with Alterity in Birth and Death

Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean: Encounters...

Author: Vanessa Grotti ,  Marc Brightman
ISBN: 9783030565848
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts...  Read More >>

Beautyscapes: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism

Beautyscapes: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism

Author: Ruth Holliday ,  Meredith Jones
ISBN: 9781526155818
Format: Paperback
$45.99

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Resilient Cyborgs: Living and Dying with Pacemakers and Defibrillators

Resilient Cyborgs: Living and Dying with Pacemakers...

Author: Nelly Oudshoorn
ISBN: 9789811525315
Format: Paperback
$206.97

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Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary

Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary

Author: Christos Lynteris
ISBN: 9780367776886
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Nested in debates among anthropologists, philosophers, social theorists and STS scholars, this book argues that...  Read More >>

Remaking the Human: Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement

Remaking the Human: Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair,...

Author: Alvaro Jarrin ,  Chiara Pussetti
ISBN: 9781800730311
Format: Hardback
$256.16

The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions...  Read More >>

Birthing Techno-Sapiens: Human-Technology Co-Evolution and the Future of Reproduction

Birthing Techno-Sapiens: Human-Technology Co-Evolution...

Author: Robbie Davis-Floyd (University of Texas, Austin, United States of America)
ISBN: 9780367535438
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This ground-breaking book challenges us to re-think ourselves as techno-sapiens—a new species we are creating as...  Read More >>

Fertility, Health and Reproductive Politics: Re-imagining Rights in India

Fertility, Health and Reproductive Politics: Re-imagining...

Author: Maya Unnithan
ISBN: 9780367786601
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive health in Northern India,...  Read More >>

Anthropology of Tobacco: Ethnographic Adventures in Non-Human Worlds

Anthropology of Tobacco: Ethnographic Adventures in...

Author: Andrew Russell (Durham University Dpt. of Anthropology, Canada)
ISBN: 9780367709457
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Anthropology of Tobacco makes tobacco the centre of its own, contentious, global story in which, instead of a passive...  Read More >>

Birthing Techno-Sapiens: Human-Technology Co-Evolution and the Future of Reproduction

Birthing Techno-Sapiens: Human-Technology Co-Evolution...

Author: Robbie Davis-Floyd (University of Texas, Austin, United States of America)
ISBN: 9780367535445
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This ground-breaking book challenges us to re-think ourselves as techno-sapiens—a new species we are creating as...  Read More >>

Eating Disorders and Child Sexual Abuse

Eating Disorders and Child Sexual Abuse

Author: Lisa Hodge
ISBN: 9789813362956
Format: Hardback
$206.97

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

Midwives in Mexico: Situated Politics, Politically Situated

Midwives in Mexico: Situated Politics, Politically Situated...

Author: Hanna Laako (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico) ,  Georgina Sánchez-Ramírez (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico)
ISBN: 9780367473419
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book presents the contemporary history and dynamics of Mexican midwifery - professional, (post)modern or autonomous,...  Read More >>

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