Medical Anthropology

As human migration brings an ever more diverse range of people, cultures and beliefs into contact, Western medical systems must adapt to cater for ...

A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist 'Ful...

As 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...

A TIMES AND OBSERVER HIGHLIGHT FOR 2022 ''An empowering story of human ingenuity'' Economist ''Full of curious facts'' The Times ''Grippin...

This volume reflects on how anthropologists have engaged in medical education and aims to positively influence the future careers of anthropologist...

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has been addressed and perceived predominantly through the broad perspectives of social and economic...

This is an outstanding collection of articles, all based on original research, giving the volume a fresh feel. Eugenia Georges, Rice University

Over several years, Christian Suhr followed Muslim patients being treated for jinn possession and psychosis in a Danish mosque and in a psychiatric...

Human Origins brings together new thinking by social anthropologists and other scholars on the evolution of human culture and society. No other ...

This is an outstanding collection of articles, all based on original research, giving the volume a fresh feel. Eugenia Georges, Rice University

The age-friendly community movement is a global phenomenon, currently growing with the support of the WHO and multiple international and nationa...

Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance. It also has t...

The author takes an insightful look at an understudied phenomenon: that of ordinary pregnancy. She rightly notes that much scholarship has document...

Sylhet, the area of Bangladesh most closely associated with overseas migration, has seen an increase in remittances sent home from abroad, intro...

The lives of kings, poets, authors, criminals and celebrities are a perpetual fascination in the media and popular culture, and for decades anthrop...

As bio-capital in the form of medical knowledge, skills and investments moves with greater frequency from its origin in First World industrializ...

There are not many areas that are more rooted in both the biological and social-cultural aspects of humankind than diet and nutrition. Throughou...

A Companion to Forensic Anthropology presents the most comprehensive assessment of the philosophy, goals, and practice of forensic anthropology cur...