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The World Health Day<\/a> is a global health awareness day celebrated every year on 7 April, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization<\/a> (WHO). It provides an\u00a0opportunity by the organization to draw worldwide attention to a subject of major importance to global health each year. This year\u00a0WHO used World Health Day to highlight the challenges and opportunities associated with food safety.<\/p>\n

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In recognition of this year’s anniversary, Berghahn would like to showcase a range of related titles, delivering scholarly, informed opinion. <\/span><\/p>\n

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We are pleased to offer a 25% discount on any of our <\/b>Global Health titles<\/b><\/span><\/a> on orders placed within the next 30 days. At checkout, simply enter the code WHD16.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Berghahn invites you to browse through its relevant titles:<\/h1>\n

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COSMOS, GODS AND MADMEN<\/a>
\nFrameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine<\/a>
\nEdited by Roland Littlewood and Rebecca Lynch<\/p>\n

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“The introduction to this book is very well-written and lays out the topic and scope clearly… The essays have been collected carefully and offer much to the study of religion and healing.”\u00a0<\/em>\u00b7 Stefan Ecks<\/strong>, University of Edinburgh<\/p>\n

The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies: how societies make sense of such issues as prediction and control of misfortune and fate; the malevolence of others; the benevolence (or otherwise) of the mystical world; local understanding and explanations of the natural and ultra-human worlds. This volume\u00a0 presents differing categorizations and conflicts that occur as people seek to make sense of suffering and their experiences. Cosmologies, whether incorporating the divine or as purely secular, lead us to interpret human action and the human constitution, its ills and its healing and, in particular, ways which determine and limit our very possibilities.<\/p>\n

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\"\"INDIGENOUS MEDICINE AMONG THE BEDOUIN IN THE MIDDLE EAST<\/a>
\nAref Abu-Rabia<\/p>\n

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Modern medicine has penetrated Bedouin tribes in the course of rapid urbanization and education, but when serious illnesses strike, particularly in the case of incurable diseases, even educated people turn to traditional medicine for a remedy. Over the course of 30 years, the author gathered data on traditional Bedouin medicine among pastoral-nomadic, semi-nomadic, and settled tribes. Based on interviews with healers, clients, and other active participants in treatments, this book will contribute to renewed thinking about a synthesis between traditional and modern medicine \u2014 to their reciprocal enrichment.<\/p>\n

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\"\"AGING AND THE DIGITAL LIFE COURSE<\/a>
\nEdited by David Prendergast and Chiara Garattini<\/p>\n

Volume 3, Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Across the life course, new forms of community, ways of keeping in contact, and practices for engaging in work, healthcare, retail, learning and leisure are evolving rapidly. Breaking new ground in the study of technology and aging, this book examines how developments in smart phones, the internet, cloud computing, and online social networking are redefining experiences and expectations around growing older in the twenty-first century. Drawing on contributions from leading commentators and researchers across the world, this book explores key themes such as caregiving, the use of social media, robotics, chronic disease and dementia management, gaming, migration, and data inheritance, to name a few.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/a><\/strong> Critical Reflections on Ageing and Technology in the Twenty-First Century<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"HEALING ROOTS<\/a>
\n Anthropology in Life and Medicine<\/a>
\nJulie Laplante<\/p>\n

Volume 15, Epistemologies of Healing<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Umhlonyane<\/em>, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild throughout the sub-Saharan region, smells and tastes like \u201cmedicine,\u201d thus easily making its way into people\u2019s lives and becoming the choice of everyday healing for Xhosa healer-diviners and Rastafarian herbalists. This \u201cnatural\u201d remedy has recently sparked curiosity as scientists search for new molecules against a tuberculosis pandemic while hoping to recognize indigenous medicine. Laplante follows umhlonyane on its trails and trials of becoming a biopharmaceutical \u2014 from the \u201copen air\u201d to controlled environments \u2014 learning from the plant and from the people who use it with hopes in healing.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/strong> Tracing the Preclinical Trial of an Indigenous Plant<\/a><\/p>\n

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Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality<\/em><\/strong><\/a> Series<\/p>\n

Understanding the complex and multifaceted issue of human reproduction has been, and remains, of great interest both to academics and practitioners. This series includes studies by specialists in the field of social, cultural, medical, and biological anthropology, medical demography, psychology, and development studies. Current debates and issues of global relevance on the changing dynamics of fertility, human reproduction and sexuality are addressed.<\/p>\n

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PARENTHOOD BETWEEN GENERATIONS<\/a>
\nTransforming Reproductive Cultures<\/a>
\nEdited by Si\u00e2n Pooley and Kaveri Qureshi<\/p>\n

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“The introduction alone is both a mini-encyclopedic coverage of this entire field and a much-needed and highly cogent call for a radical programmatic expansion in the scope of research addressing child-rearing”<\/em> \u00b7 Simon Szreter<\/strong>, Cambridge University<\/p>\n

Recent literature has identified modern \u2018parenting\u2019 as an expert-led practice \u2013 one which begins with pre-pregnancy decisions, entails distinct types of intimate relationships, places intense burdens on mothers, and increasingly on fathers too. Exploring within diverse historical and global contexts how men and women make \u2013 and break \u2013 relations between generations when becoming parents, this volume brings together innovative qualitative research by anthropologists, historians and sociologists. The chapters focus tightly on inter-generational transmission and demonstrate its importance for understanding how people become parents and rear children.<\/p>\n

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ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN THE THIRD PHASE
\nGlobal Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds
\nEdited by Kate Hampshire and Bob Simpson<\/p>\n

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Following the birth of the first \u201ctest-tube baby\u201d in 1978, Assisted Reproductive Technologies became available to a small number of people in high-income countries able to afford the cost of private treatment, a period seen as the \u201cFirst Phase\u201d of ARTs. In the \u201cSecond Phase,\u201d these treatments became increasingly available to cosmopolitan global elites. Today, this picture is changing \u2014 albeit slowly and unevenly \u2014 as ARTs are becoming more widely available. While, for many, accessing infertility treatments remains a dream, these are beginning to be viewed as a standard part of reproductive healthcare and family planning. This volume highlights this \u201cThird Phase\u201d \u2014 the opening up of ARTs to new constituencies in terms of ethnicity, geography, education, and class.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/a><\/strong> Assisted Reproductive Technologies: A Third Phase?<\/a><\/p>\n

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THAI IN VITRO<\/a>
\nGender, Culture and Assisted Reproduction<\/a>
\nAndrea Whittaker<\/p>\n

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In Thailand, infertility remains a source of stigma for those couples that combine a range of religious, traditional and high-tech interventions in their quest for a child. This book explores this experience of infertility and the pursuit and use of assisted reproductive technologies by Thai couples. Though using assisted reproductive technologies is becoming more acceptable in Thai society, access to and choices about such technologies are mediated by differences in class position. These stories of women and men in private and public infertility clinics reveal how local social and moral sensitivities influence the practices and meanings of treatment.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: <\/a><\/strong>Culture Mediums<\/a><\/p>\n

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ACHIEVING PROCREATION<\/a>
\nChildlessness and IVF in Turkey<\/a>
\nMerve Demircio\u011flu G\u00f6knar<\/p>\n

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Managing social relationships for childless couples in pro-natalist societies can be a difficult art to master, and may even become an issue of belonging for both men and women. With ethnographic research gathered from two IVF clinics and in two villages in northwestern Turkey, this book explores infertility and assisted reproductive technologies within a secular Muslim population. G\u00f6knar investigates the experience of infertility through various perspectives, such as the importance of having a child for women, the mediating role of religion, the power dynamics in same-gender relationships, and the impact of manhood ideologies on the decision for \u2014 or against \u2014 having IVF.<\/p>\n

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COUSIN MARRIAGES<\/a>
\nBetween Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change<\/a>
\nEdited by Alison Shaw and Aviad Raz<\/p>\n

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Juxtaposing contributions from geneticists and anthropologists, this volume provides a contemporary overview of cousin marriage and what is happening at the interface of public policy, the management of genetic risk and changing cultural practices in the Middle East and in multi-ethnic Europe. It offers a cross-cultural exploration of practices of cousin marriage in the light of new genetic understanding of consanguineous marriage and its possible health risks. Overall, the volume presents a reflective, interdisciplinary analysis of the social and ethical issues raised by both the discourse of risk in cousin marriage, as well as existing and potential interventions to promote \u201chealthy consanguinity\u201d via new genetic technologies.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Volume 26 Forthcoming in Paperback!\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

NIGHTTIME BREASTFEEDING<\/a>
\nAn American Cultural Dilemma<\/a>
\nCec\u00edlia Tomori<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn this beautifully written ethnography, based on fieldwork with a sample of first-time heterosexual parents in the Midwest United States, Cec\u0131lia Tomori provides a broad-ranging yet in-depth discussion of numerous anthropological topics, including kinship, reproduction, and personhood\u2026This book is a pleasure to read, and will be of interest not only to scholars of gender, kinship, and reproduction, but also to those who work on the subjects of embodiment, authoritative knowledge, expertise, morality, the house, and temporality. It deserves to be read widely, both within the academy and beyond.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n

Through careful ethnographic study of the dilemmas raised by nighttime breastfeeding, and their examination in the context of anthropological, historical, and feminist studies, this volume unravels the cultural tensions that underlie these difficulties.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Volume 25\u00a0New in Paperback<\/em><\/p>\n

PREGNANCY IN PRACTICE<\/a>
\nExpectation and Experience in the Contemporary US<\/a>
\nSallie Han<\/p>\n

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\u201cPregnancy in Practice is a feminist contribution to the anthropology of reproduction in that it explores the quotidian experiences of pregnant women\u2026While her sample is by no means statistically representative of the experiences of American women, the women in her ethnography represent the normative prenatal experience in America. Han successfully demonstrates that the concept of an \u2018ordinary\u2019 or \u2018norma\u2019 pregnancy is a phantom itself. Because of this work, perhaps we can definitively say that all women have ordinary pregnancies, or perhaps none do.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Association for Feminist Anthropology Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Chapter 1. <\/a><\/strong>Introduction: Ordinary Pregnancy<\/a><\/p>\n

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ISLAM AND ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES<\/a>
\nSunni and Shia Perspectives<\/a>
\nEdited by Marcia C. Inhorn and Soraya Tremayne<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is to the editors\u2019 credit that they have been able to harness these diverse angles in such a way that the whole in fact emerges as more than its parts. ARTs and the problem of third-party donation within Islam speak to more overarching issues of policy, modernity, gender, rights, and social change\u2026 In its sensitivity to discrepancies between norms and practice, the volume not only contributes knowledge to the field of ARTs and procreative practices more generally, indicating a socio-political religious complexity that is not easily disentangled. It also and perhaps more importantly enhances our knowledge of Islam, while encouraging a continual comparative perspective.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: <\/a><\/strong>Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies<\/a><\/p>\n

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POWERLESS SCIENCE?<\/strong><\/a>
\nScience and Politics in a Toxic World<\/strong><\/a>
\nEdited by Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas<\/p>\n

Volume 2, Environment in History: International Perspectives<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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“The book will be of interest to the new wave of anthropological studies on toxic contamination and will open the door for researchers and practitioners to actively reimagine what a regulatory apparatus that is de-centered from science might look like.”<\/em> \u00b7 Medical Anthropology Quarterly<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: <\/a><\/strong>Greatness and Misery of Science in a Toxic World<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nTHE ETHICS OF THE NEW EUGENICS<\/strong><\/a>
\nEdited by Calum MacKellar and Christopher Bechtel<\/p>\n

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“Clearly written and highly informative about international and nations laws, as well as about past, current, and possible future eugenic practices and arguments for and against the same, this volume makes for valuable reading not only for students of medical ethics but can be recommended to anyone wanting to learn more about arguments for and against current and possible future reproductive selection procedures.”<\/em> \u00b7 Ethics & Medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n

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RECONSTRUCTING OBESITY<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings<\/strong><\/a>
\nEdited by Megan McCullough and Jessica Hardin
\nAfterword by Stephen T. McGarvey<\/p>\n

Volume 2, Food, Nutrition, and Culture<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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“This is not a book that seeks to discredit health research and leave others to do the work of finding a better way to conduct it; rather, it aims to improve health research by providing useful avenues for critique and suggestions for ways forward. In this sense, it works as a very practical guide for those working in the health professions, whether as researchers or healthcare providers, to better understand “obesity” and “overweight” and, importantly, fat people in social and environmental context… it makes a welcome and necessary intervention into the business of health research, provision, and discourse, as well as its public reception.”<\/em> \u00b7 Fat Studies Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n

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TRANSITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS<\/a>
\nCultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course<\/a>
\nEdited by Caitrin Lynch and Jason Danely
\nAfterword by Jennifer Cole, University of Chicago<\/p>\n

Volume 1, Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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“This volume is full of good writing, lively situations, some wonderful photos, revealing quotes and simulating ideas. Its readability makes it appealing as a text to be used widely in the undergraduate\/graduate classroom… the current volume makes for excellent reading and launches the new Berghahn book series admirably.”<\/em> \u00b7 Anthropology of Aging Quarterly Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

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THE BODY IN BALANCE<\/a>
\nHumoral Medicines in Practice<\/a>
\nEdited by Peregrine Horden and Elisabeth Hsu<\/p>\n

Volume 13, Epistemologies of Healing<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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“The book is a magisterial collection…In spite of the wide range of medical traditions concerned-from different continents (Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America) and at different epochs (ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary)-the book is coherently structured around a few core issues that consistently link all the chapters. Rarely will you find in a single volume so many authoritative scholars talking about the specificities of their field of research and, at the same time, constructing a comparative dialogue.” \u00b7 Caterina Guenzi, \u00c9cole des hautes \u00e9tudes en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris<\/p>\n

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JOURNALS<\/h2>\n

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Anthropology in Action<\/strong><\/a>
\nJournal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice<\/strong><\/a>
\nEditor: Christine McCourt, City University London<\/p>\n

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Anthropology in Action<\/em> (AIA) is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles, commentaries, research reports, and book reviews in applied anthropology. Contributions reflect the use of anthropological training in policy- or practice-oriented work and foster the broader application of these approaches to practical problems. The journal provides a forum for debate and analysis for anthropologists working both inside and outside academia and aims to promote communication amongst practitioners, academics and students of anthropology in order to advance the cross-fertilisation of expertise and ideas.<\/p>\n

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Anthropology of the Middle East<\/strong><\/a>
\nEditor in Chief: Soheila Shahshahani, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran<\/p>\n

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Anthropology of the Middle East<\/em> (AME) is published twice a year, in the spring and autumn. Issues are often themed and on occasion guest edited. Each issue contains articles on specific research projects and outcomes on Middle Eastern topics. A section titled “Notes from the Field” features research in progress. Book reviews and shorter reports on books, films and conferences are also included.<\/p>\n

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The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology<\/strong><\/a>
\nEditor-in-Chief: Maryon McDonald, University of Cambridge<\/p>\n

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The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology<\/em> is an international, peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing leading scholarship in contemporary anthropology. Geographically diverse articles provide a range of theoretical or ethical perspectives, from the traditional to the mischievous or subversive, and aim to offer new insights into the worlds in which we live. The journal will publish challenging ethnography and push hard at the boundaries of the discipline in addition to examining or incorporating fields\u2014from economics to neuroscience\u2014with which anthropology has long been in dialogue. The original journal of this name was an in-house publication based at Cambridge University, with a remit to provide a space in which innovative material and ideas could be tested. The new Cambridge Journal of Anthropology<\/em> builds on that tradition and seeks to produce new analytical toolkits for anthropology or to take all such intellectual exploration to task.<\/p>\n

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Girlhood Studies<\/strong><\/a>
\nAn Interdisciplinary Journal<\/strong><\/a>
\nEditor-in-Chief: Claudia Mitchell, McGill University<\/p>\n

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Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal<\/em> is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for the critical discussion of girlhood from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and for the dissemination of current research and reflections on girls’ lives to a broad, cross-disciplinary audience of scholars, researchers, practitioners in the fields of education, social service and health care and policy makers. International and interdisciplinary in scope, it is committed to feminist, anti-discrimination, anti-oppression approaches and solicits manuscripts from a variety of disciplines.<\/p>\n

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