medical anthropology and the world

Epistemologies of Healing: Plants Health and Healing: On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology (Hardcover)

Plants have cultural histories as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World or coca and quinine from South America. Even... more

Pre-Owned Medical Anthropology and the World System 2nd Edition Paperback

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Pre-Owned Medical Anthropology and the World System (Paperback) 089789846X 9780897898461

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Studies in Medical Anthropology: Chronic Conditions Fluid States : Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness (Paperback)

Chronic Conditions Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals families and communities in diverse local and global settings. Breaking new ground in medical anthropology by challenging the chronic/acute... more

1 DIVISION Headquarters Branches and Services Royal Army Medical Corps Assistant Director Medical Services : 14 September 1914 - 31 March 1915 (First World War War Diary WO95/1242A) (Paperback)

The War Diaries for the Great War held under WO95 represent one of the most popular record collections held at the National Archives Kew London. For researchers and family historians the War Diaries contain a wealth of information of far greater... more

46 DIVISION Headquarters Branches and Services Royal Army Medical Corps Assistant Director Medical Services : 1 March 1915 - 31 December 1916 (First World War War Diary WO95/2670) (Paperback)

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Pre-Owned The World Book - Rush-Presbyterian-Medical Center Medical Encyclopedia 9780716642039

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Medical training in World War II / Medical Department United States Army ; prepared and published under the direction of Richard R. Taylor Surgeon General United States Army ; editor in chief Will

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Official History of the Second World War - Medical Services : Casualties and Medical Statistics (Hardcover)

The most detailed comprehensive study and statistical analysis of British battle and non-battle casualties on all fronts during the Second World. This the final volume of the United Kingdom Official Medical History of the Second World War presents an... more

World Anthropology: Gastronomy: The Anthropology of Food and Food Habits (Hardcover)

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World Anthropology: Political Anthropology: The State of the Art (Hardcover)

Papers prepared for the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Chicago 1973. more

Pre-Owned Profiles of a Lost World: Memoirs of East European Jewish Life Before World War II (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology) Paperback - USED

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Studies in Medical Anthropology: Sleep Paralysis : Night-mares Nocebos and the Mind-Body Connection (Paperback)

Sleep Paralysis explores a form of nocturnal fright: the night-mare or incubus. In its original meaning a night-mare was the nocturnal visit of an evil being that threatened to press the life out of its victim. Today it is known as sleep paralysis-a... more

Pre-Owned Medical Anthropology (Paperback) 0335218504 9780335218509

Medical anthropology is playing an increasingly important role in public health. This book provides an introduction to the basic concepts approaches and theories used and shows how these contribute to understanding complex health related behaviour.... more

Medical Anthropology: The Best Place : Addiction Intervention and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver (Hardcover)

The Best Place examines how overlapping housing mental-health-and-addictions and overdose crises alongside their accompanying public health interventions and the frenetic pace of urban renewal have shaped forms of life and death among young people who... more

A Reader in Medical Anthropology : Theoretical Trajectories Emergent Realities 9781405183147 Used / Pre-owned

* Presents a key collection of both classic and new agenda-setting articles in this central area of anthropology * Provides analytic and historical contextual introductions by leading figures in medical anthropology medical sociology science studies... more

Studies in Medical Anthropology: An Uncertain Cure : Living with Leprosy in Brazil (Paperback)

In An Uncertain Cure Cassandra White goes deep into the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro to give a riveting account of the contemporary leprosy experience among poor and working class Brazilians. In this ethnographic treatment of leprosy sufferers White... more

Medical Ethics in Imperial China : A Study in Historical Anthropology (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

This book the first comprehensive history of explicity medical ethics in pre-modern China spans the period from 500 B.C. through the nineteenth century and provides literal translations of all accessible codes of ethics in the known Chinese medical... more

Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social an Reader Medical Anthropology Book 15 (Hardcover)

A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories Emergent Realities brings together articles from the key theoretical approaches in the field of medical anthropology as well as related science and technology studies. The editors comprehensive... more

Studies in Medical Anthropology: Embodying Culture : Pregnancy in Japan and Israel (Hardcover)

Embodying Culture is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy in two different cultures—Japan and Israel—both of which medicalize pregnancy. Tsipy Ivry focuses on low-risk or normal pregnancies using cultural comparison to explore the... more

The Philosophy of Integrating Medical Anthropology & Clinical Psychology : Mental Health & Soul Health: A Quest for Solutions to Human Health Diseases Treatment and Prevention (Paperback)

The book explores the philosophy of integrating Medical Anthropology and Clinical Psychology to understand mental and soul health as a quest for solutions to human health diseases treatment and prevention. The book also discusses mental and soul health... more

Pre-Owned Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology 9780073405384

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Exploring Medical Anthropology 9780205270064 Used / Pre-owned

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Exploring Medical Anthropology 9780205442348 Used / Pre-owned

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Studies in Medical Anthropology: Obesity : Cultural and Biocultural Perspectives (Paperback)

Grounded in a holistic anthropological approach and using a range of ethnographic and ecological case studies Obesity shows that the human tendency to become and stay fat makes perfect sense in terms of evolved human inclinations and the physical and... more

Empathy and Healing: Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology (Paperback)

Arguably Vieda Skultans is the most prominent contemporary Latvian social anthropologist...One of the best assets of this book is its introduction. In its 15 lucid and condensed pages Skultans summarizes her intellectual journey and contextualizes the... more

Medical Anthropology: Fistula Politics : Birthing Injuries and the Quest for Continence in Niger (Paperback)

In Western humanitarian and media narratives obstetric fistula is presented as deeply stigmatizing resulting in divorce abandonment by kin exile from communities depression and suicide. Heller illustrates the inaccuracy of these popular narratives and... more

Studies in Medical Anthropology: Comprehending Drug Use : Ethnographic Research at the Social Margins (Paperback)

Comprehending Drug Use the first full-length critical overview of the use of ethnographic methods in drug research synthesizes more than one hundred years of study on the human encounter with psychotropic drugs. more

Studies in Medical Anthropology: Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City : How Resourceful Latinas Beat the Odds (Hardcover)

Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City explores the survival strategies of poor HIV-positive Puerto Rican women by asking four key questions: Given their limited resources how did they manage an illness as serious as HIV/AIDS? Did they look for... more

Pre-Owned Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective 9780878722167

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Pre-Owned Culture and Health: Applying Medical Anthropology (Paperback) by Michael Winkelman

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Studies in Medical Anthropology: Embodying Culture : Pregnancy in Japan and Israel (Paperback)

Embodying Culture is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy in two different cultures—Japan and Israel—both of which medicalize pregnancy. Tsipy Ivry focuses on low-risk or normal pregnancies using cultural comparison to explore the... more

Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social an A Reader in Medical Anthropology Book 16 (Paperback)

A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories Emergent Realities brings together articles from the key theoretical approaches in the field of medical anthropology as well as related science and technology studies. The editors comprehensive... more

Culture and Health: Applying Medical Anthropology (Paperback)

Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health building on foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior theory. It shows how to address the challenges of cross-cultural medicine through interdisciplinary... more

Studies in Medical Anthropology: Your Pocket Is What Cures You : The Politics of Health in Senegal (Paperback)

In the wake of structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and health reforms in the 1990s the majority of sub-Saharan African governments spend less than ten dollars per capita on health annually and many Africans have limited access to basic medical... more

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Pre-Owned Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective 9780813343846

Integrating biocultural environmental and evolutionary approaches to the study of human health this premier teaching text for medical anthropology has been updated to reflect the latest developments in the field. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in... more

Medical Anthropology: Infected Kin : Orphan Care and AIDS in Lesotho (Hardcover)

AIDS has devastated communities across southern Africa. In Lesotho a quarter of adults are infected. In Infected Kin Block and McGrath argue that AIDS is fundamentally a kinship disease examining the ways it transcends infected individuals and seeps... more