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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Quality and Regulation in Health Care: International Experiences
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99First published in 1992, Quality and Regulation in Health Care employs socio-legal ideas concerning regulation to examine the methods used to influ...
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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% -
Belief, Behavior, and Health: Religion as a Social Determinant of Health
Sandra D. LaneCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99This book uniquely examines, across cultures, the health benefits and detriments of religious beliefs, with important implications for individual w...
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Belief, Behavior, and Health: Religion as a Social Determinant of Health
Sandra D. LaneCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99This book uniquely examines, across cultures, the health benefits and detriments of religious beliefs, with important implications for individual w...
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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% -
Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €122.39Original price €143.99The last few years have brought increased writings from activists, artists, scholars, and concerned clinicians that cast a critical and constructiv...
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Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €62.04Original price €72.99The last few years have brought increased writings from activists, artists, scholars, and concerned clinicians that cast a critical and constructiv...
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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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The Science of Life: Andrew Huxley, Richard Keynes and Horace Barlow
Alan MacfarlaneCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99The Science of Life: Andrew Huxley, Richard Keynes and Horace Barlow is part of the series Creative Lives and Works. It is a collection of intervie...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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