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Save 10% Models of Obesity: From Ecology to Complexity in Science and Policy
Stanley J. UlijaszekCurrent price €75.59Original price €83.99Taking a comparative approach, this book investigates the ways in which obesity and its susceptibilities are framed in science and policy and how t...
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Save 5% A Companion to Forensic Anthropology
John Wiley & Sons IncCurrent price €52.24Original price €54.99A Companion to Forensic Anthropology presents the most comprehensive assessment of the philosophy, goals, and practice of forensic anthropology cur...
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Save 10% Hanging without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland
Mary Margaret SteedlyCurrent price €136.79Original price €151.99When Mary Steedly went to North Sumatra, Indonesia, she intended to study the curing practices of Karo Batak spirit mediums, the gurus who keep a c...
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Save 5% Culture and PTSD: Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective
University of Pennsylvania PressCurrent price €48.44Original price €50.99Since the 1970s, understanding of the effects of trauma, including flashbacks and withdrawal, has become widespread in the United States. As a resu...
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Save 10% Midwives and Mothers: The Medicalization of Childbirth on a Guatemalan Plantation
Sheila CosminskyCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99The World Health Organization is currently promoting a policy of replacing traditional or lay midwives in countries around the world. As part of an...
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Save 5% Rapid Eye Movement Sleep: Regulation and Function
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €127.29Original price €133.99Spanning over half a century of investigation into Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, this volume provides comprehensive coverage of a broad range of ...
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Save 10% Human Remains: Curation, Reburial and Repatriation
Margaret CleggCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99Working with human remains raises a whole host of ethical issues, from how the remains are used to how and where they are stored. Over recent years...
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Save 5% Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures
Duke University PressCurrent price €30.88Original price €32.50In this important collection, prominent scholars who helped to establish medical anthropology as an area of study reflect on the field's past, pres...
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Save 15% Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin Americas mass graves: CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2023 BY FT READERS AND THE NEW YORKER
Dr Alexa HagertyCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FARCHOSEN BY FINANCIAL TIMES' READERS' FOR BEST BOOKS OF 2023A NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS EDITOR' S CHOICEH...
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Save 10% Impressionable Biologies: From the Archaeology of Plasticity to the Sociology of Epigenetics
Maurizio MeloniCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99During the twentieth century, genes were considered the controlling force of life processes, and the transfer of DNA the definitive explanation for...
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Save 5% Biotech Juggernaut: Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience
Stuart NewmanCurrent price €43.69Original price €45.99Biotech Juggernaut: Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience relates the intensifying effort of bioentrepreneurs to apply genet...
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Save 10% Pathogenic Policing: Immigration Enforcement and Health in the U.S. South
Nolan KlineCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99The relationship between undocumented immigrants and law enforcement officials continues to be a politically contentious topic in the United States...
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Save 10% Clinical Anthropology 2.0: Improving Medical Education and Patient Experience
Jason W. WilsonCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Clinical Anthropology 2.0 presents a new approach to applied medical anthropology that engages with clinical spaces, healthcare systems, care deliv...
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Save 10% Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground
Tom KochCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99In the seventeenth century, a map of the plague suggested a radical idea-that the disease was carried and spread by humans. In the nineteenth centu...
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Save 10% The Medicine Cabinet: The story of health & and disease told through extraordinary objects
Natasha McEnroeCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50The Medicine Cabinet is a beautifully curated and expertly written compendium of over 100 astonishing objects related to the story of medicine. Eac...
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Save 10% The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations in Europe
Albert J. AmmermanCurrent price €95.39Original price €105.99This book explores the shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture as a way of life and the implications of this neolithic transition for the g...
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A Companion to Dental Anthropology
G. Richard ScottCurrent price €172.89Original price €181.99Companion to Dental Anthropology presents a collection of original readings addressing all aspects and sub-disciplines of the field of dental anthr...
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Save 13% Human Remains: Curation, Reburial and Repatriation
Margaret CleggCurrent price €76.55Original price €87.99Working with human remains raises a whole host of ethical issues, from how the remains are used to how and where they are stored. Over recent years...
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Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing: Spiritual Interpretations of Symptoms in Medical Practice
Natalie TobertCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99As human migration brings an ever more diverse range of people, cultures and beliefs into contact, Western medical systems must adapt to cater for ...
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This Mortal Coil: A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year
Andrew DoigCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist 'Ful...
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From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin DoughtyCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she sets out i...
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This Mortal Coil: A History of Death
Andrew DoigCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99A TIMES AND OBSERVER HIGHLIGHT FOR 2022 ''An empowering story of human ingenuity'' Economist ''Full of curious facts'' The Times ''Grippin...
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Anthropology in Medical Education: Sustaining Engagement and Impact
Springer Nature Switzerland AGCurrent price €57.96Original price €68.19This volume reflects on how anthropologists have engaged in medical education and aims to positively influence the future careers of anthropologist...
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Morality, Hope and Grief: Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa
Berghahn BooksCurrent price €29.33Original price €34.50The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has been addressed and perceived predominantly through the broad perspectives of social and economic...
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The Anthropology of the Fetus: Biology, Culture, and Society
Berghahn BooksCurrent price €4.73Original price €5.25This is an outstanding collection of articles, all based on original research, giving the volume a fresh feel. Eugenia Georges, Rice University
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Descending with Angels: Islamic Exorcism and Psychiatry: a Film Monograph
Christian SuhrCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Over several years, Christian Suhr followed Muslim patients being treated for jinn possession and psychosis in a Danish mosque and in a psychiatric...
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Human Origins: Contributions from Social Anthropology
Berghahn BooksCurrent price €112.78Original price €132.68Human Origins brings together new thinking by social anthropologists and other scholars on the evolution of human culture and society. No other ...
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The Anthropology of the Fetus: Biology, Culture, and Society
Berghahn BooksCurrent price €4.73Original price €5.25This is an outstanding collection of articles, all based on original research, giving the volume a fresh feel. Eugenia Georges, Rice University
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The Global Age-Friendly Community Movement: A Critical Appraisal
Berghahn BooksCurrent price €104.35Original price €122.76The age-friendly community movement is a global phenomenon, currently growing with the support of the WHO and multiple international and nationa...
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Kin, Gene, Community: Reproductive Technologies among Jewish Israelis
Berghahn BooksCurrent price €112.78Original price €132.68Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance. It also has t...
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Pregnancy in Practice: Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary US
Sallie HanCurrent price €4.73Original price €5.25The author takes an insightful look at an understudied phenomenon: that of ordinary pregnancy. She rightly notes that much scholarship has document...
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Patients and Agents: Mental Illness, Modernity and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh
Alyson CallanCurrent price €104.35Original price €122.76Sylhet, the area of Bangladesh most closely associated with overseas migration, has seen an increase in remittances sent home from abroad, intro...
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Studies in Forensic Biohistory: Anthropological Perspectives
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €78.29Original price €86.99The lives of kings, poets, authors, criminals and celebrities are a perpetual fascination in the media and popular culture, and for decades anthrop...
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Collaborators Collaborating: Counterparts in Anthropological Knowledge and International Research Relations
Berghahn BooksCurrent price €104.35Original price €122.76As bio-capital in the form of medical knowledge, skills and investments moves with greater frequency from its origin in First World industrializ...
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Human Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective: Past Meets Present
Berghahn BooksCurrent price €104.35Original price €122.76There are not many areas that are more rooted in both the biological and social-cultural aspects of humankind than diet and nutrition. Throughou...
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