Medical Anthropology
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Written In Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind
Professor Sue BlackCurrent price €15.05Original price €15.99WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'Gripping from the start, Written in Bone is superb' - Dr Richard Shepherd, author of Unnatural Causes...
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Ein transnationaler feministischer Blick auf die Biomärkte für Leihmutterschaft in Indien
Sheela SuryanarayananCurrent price €83.69Original price €92.99Dieses Buch verfolgt einen Ansatz der reproduktiven Gerechtigkeit, um zu argumentieren, dass die Leihmutterschaft, wie sie auf den heutigen neolibe...
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Migrant Health and Resilience: Transnational Competence in Conflict and Climate Displacement Situations
Diana M. DiakówCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99In an era of escalating conflict-induced and climate-induced migration and cross-border interaction, transnational-competence (TC) preparation for ...
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Dental Morphology for Anthropology: An Illustrated Manual
Heather EdgarCurrent price €147.59Original price €163.99This work provides a new, comprehensive update to the Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System (ASUDAS). Drawing upon her extensive expe...
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Science, Technology and the Ageing Society
Tiago MoreiraCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99Ageing is widely recognised as one of the social and economic challenges in the contemporary, globalised world, for which scientific, technological...
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Mortal Dilemmas: The Troubled Landscape of Death in America
Donald JoralemonCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Anthropologist Donald Joralemon asks whether America is really, as many scholars claim, a death-denying culture that prefers to quarantine the sick...
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Infection Prevention and Control: A Social Science Perspective
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99An understanding of the social sciences within infection prevention and control (IPC) is important for those working in health and social care. Thi...
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Breast Cancer Gene Research and Medical Practices: Transnational Perspectives in the Time of BRCA
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99The discovery of the two inherited susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 in the mid-1990s created the possibility of predictive genetic testing and ...
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Medical Anthropology in Europe: Shaping the Field
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.64Original price €46.99This collection brings together three generations of medical anthropologists working at European universities to reflect on past, current and futur...
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Médecins Sans Frontières and Humanitarian Situations: An Anthropological Exploration
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99This book explores the interaction between anthropology and humanitarianism, focussed on the organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).The emphas...
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The Domestication of Humans
Robert G. BednarikCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99The Domestication of Humans explains the alternative to the African Eve model by attributing human modernity, not to a speciation event in Africa, ...
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Thinking Through Resistance: A study of public oppositions to contemporary global health practice
Left Coast Press IncCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99Acts of public defiance towards biomedical public health policies have occurred throughout modern history, from resistance to early smallpox vaccin...
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Thinking Through Resistance: A study of public oppositions to contemporary global health practice
Left Coast Press IncCurrent price €143.09Original price €158.99Acts of public defiance towards biomedical public health policies have occurred throughout modern history, from resistance to early smallpox vaccin...
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The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €188.09Original price €208.99The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology provides readers with an overview of the study of ancient disease.The volume begins by exploring current m...
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Youth Digital Health and Online Platforms: Dialogue with Peers on Reddit
Martyna GlinieckaCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Youth Digital Health and Online Platforms focuses on young peoples use of the digital platform Reddit for health. Drawing upon dialogism theory, th...
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The True Secret of Evolution: From Competition to Collaboration
Carlo V. BellieniCurrent price €65.69Original price €72.99The concept of evolution has evolved over time. This is the conclusion reached by Carlo Bellieni and Lourdes Velàzquez, examining the biological an...
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The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €53.99Original price €59.99The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology. In this exciting departu...
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Discretionary Medicine in Pakistan: Poverty, Coloniality and Health
Sanaullah KhanCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99This book uses the notion of discretionary medicine to explore the landscape of contemporary healthcare in Pakistan. It considers how patients freq...
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Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of Covid-19
UCL PressCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99Current price €51.29Original price €56.99Save 10% -
Essays in Medical Anthropology: The Austrian Ethnomedical Society After Thirty Years
Lit VerlagCurrent price €42.74Original price €44.99Current price €42.74Original price €44.99Save 5% -
Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €194.64Original price €228.99The thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides an unparalleled overview of sociological...
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Bodies and Lives in Ancient America: Health Before Columbus
Anna OsterholtzCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99Bodies and Lives in Ancient America offers a broad overview of what it was like to live and die throughout North America before European contact. U...
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Clinical Anthropology 2.0: Improving Medical Education and Patient Experience
Jason W. WilsonCurrent price €81.89Original price €90.99Clinical Anthropology 2.0 presents a new approach to applied medical anthropology that engages with clinical spaces, healthcare systems, care deliv...
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Pills for the Poorest: An Exploration of TRIPS and Access to Medication in Sub-Saharan Africa
E. CloatreCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99The desperate need for a vast part of the global population to access better medicines in more certain ways is one of the biggest concerns of the m...
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Maya Bonesetters: Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala
Servando Z. HinojosaCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Scholarship on Maya healing traditions has focused primarily on the roles of midwives, shamans, herbalists, and diviners. Bonesetters, on the other...
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Maya Bonesetters: Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala
Servando Z. HinojosaCurrent price €85.49Original price €94.99Scholarship on Maya healing traditions has focused primarily on the roles of midwives, shamans, herbalists, and diviners. Bonesetters, on the other...
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5 Appetites: Eat Like the Animals for a Naturally Healthy Diet
David RaubenheimerCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99A New Scientist Best Book of 2020 How is it that a baboon and a blob of slime mould instinctively know what to eat for optimal health, ba...
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Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, Sixth Edition
University of Toronto PressCurrent price €64.79Original price €71.99Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory curates and collects many of the most important publications of anthropological thought spanning t...
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A History of Anthropological Theory, Sixth Edition
Liam D. MurphyCurrent price €85.49Original price €94.99For over twenty years, A History of Anthropological Theory has provided a strong foundation for understanding anthropological thinking, tracing how...
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Virtual Anthropology: A guide to a new interdisciplinary field
Fred L. BooksteinCurrent price €79.19Original price €87.99This is the first textbook of Virtual Anthropology, the new science that combines elements from fields as diverse as anthropology, medicine, statis...
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A History of Anthropological Theory, Sixth Edition
Liam D. MurphyCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99For over twenty years, A History of Anthropological Theory has provided a strong foundation for understanding anthropological thinking, tracing how...
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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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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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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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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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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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