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\"ImageWorld Health Day<\/a> is annually held on April 7,\u00a0under the sponsorship of the\u00a0World Health Organization<\/a>\u00a0(WHO), to mark WHO’s founding, and is seen as an opportunity by the organization to draw worldwide attention to a subject of major importance to global health each year. For more information and this year’s theme please visit\u00a0WHO webpage<\/a>.<\/h4>\n

In recognition of the day Berghahn would like to showcase a range of related titles, delivering scholarly, informed opinion. Valid through May 7th, we are pleased to offer a 25% discount<\/strong> on any of our Medical Anthropology<\/a> titles ordered directly through Berghahn\u00a0webpage<\/a>. At checkout, simply enter the code WHD18<\/strong>.<\/h4>\n

Please note that all the titles listed below are also available as ebooks. More information is available here<\/a>.<\/h4>\n

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\"\"THE PATIENT MULTIPLE<\/a>
\nAn Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan
\nJonathan Taee<\/p>\n

Volume 4, WYSE Series in Social Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. Patients use the expanding biomedical network and a growing number of traditional healthcare units, while also seeking alternative practices, such as shamanism and other religious healing, or even more provocative practices. The Patient Multiple<\/em> delves into this healthcare complexity in the context of patients\u2019 daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding new paths to good health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography.<\/p>\n

Related Link: Visit the author’s website: http:\/\/www.jonathantaee.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"A FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPE<\/a>
\nAbortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe
\nEdited by Silvia De Zordo, Joanna Mishtal, and Lorena Anton<\/p>\n

Volume 20, Protest, Culture & Society<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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This volume analyses European abortion governance and explores how social movements, political groups, and individuals use protests and resistance to influence abortion policy. Drawing on case studies from Italy, Spain, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the European Union, it analyses the strategies and discourses of groups seeking to liberalise or restrict reproductive rights. It also illuminates the ways that reproductive rights politics intersect with demographic anxieties, as well as the rising nationalisms and xenophobia related to austerity policies, mass migration and the recent terrorist attacks in Europe.<\/p>\n

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\"LivingLIVING BEFORE DYING<\/a>
\nImagining and Remembering Home
\nJanette Davies
\nForeword by Lord Nigel Crisp<\/p>\n

Volume 41, New Directions in Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201c<\/em>Living Before Dying is an important and timely contribution to a rising body of social scientific and bioethical work about dementia, including the anthropology of senility. It should be read by all those who want care to improve for older people, with and without dementia.<\/em>\u201d \u2022 Times Higher Education<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Series<\/strong><\/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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\"\"Volume 36
\nFERTILITY, CONJUNCTURE, DIFFERENCE<\/a>
\nAnthropological Approaches to the Heterogeneity of Modern Fertility Declines
\nEdited by Philip Kreager and Astrid Bochow<\/p>\n

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Fertility transition, rather than the story of the triumphant spread of Western birth control rationality, reveals a diversity of reproductive means and ends continuing before, during, and after transition. This collection brings together anthropological case studies, placing them in a comparative framework to address how fertility is simply one element of complex social structures, in which the formation and size of families is not decided solely or primarily by reproduction.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Volume 35
\nTHE ONLINE WORLD OF SURROGACY<\/a>
\nZsuzsa Berend<\/p>\n

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Zsuzsa Berend presents a methodologically innovative ethnography of SurroMomsOnline.com, the largest surrogacy support website in the United States. Surrogates\u2019 views emerge from the stories, debates, and discussions that unfold online. The Online World of Surrogacy documents these collective meaning-making practices and explores their practical, emotional, and moral implications. In doing so, the book works through themes of interest across the social sciences, including definitions of parenthood, the symbolic role of money, reproductive loss, altruism, and the moral valuation of relationships.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Volume 27 In Paperback<\/em>
\nGLOBALIZED FATHERHOOD<\/a>
\nEdited by Marcia C. Inhorn, Wendy Chavkin & Jos\u00e9-Alberto Navarro<\/p>\n

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\u201c<\/em>Globalized Fatherhood, with its 16 chapters and original research on fatherhood (and related topics) from more than 20 countries comes at an opportune time. This impressive volume,\u2026 covers a lot of ground\u2026[It] is an ambitious offering that hits the mark in most of its chapters, and advances the research in a field that is sadly lacking in it. May there be more volumes on the topic \u2013by these authors, and many others.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Gender & Development<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/strong> Globalized Fatherhood: Emergent Forms and Possibilities in the New Millennium<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"Volume 26 In Paperback<\/em>
\nNIGHTTIME BREASTFEEDING<\/a>
\nAn American Cultural Dilemma
\nCec\u00edlia Tomori<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis work will be useful for medical anthropologists and professionals at all levels of reproductive health care and family medicine. It offers important ethnographic analysis relevant to feminist anthropology, women\u2019s and gender studies, and cross-cultural and bio-evolutionary perspectives on kinship and family.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Medical Anthropology Quarterly<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Food, Nutrition, and Culture<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

Taking an anthropological perspective, this book series provides a forum for thought-provoking work on the bio-cultural, cultural, and social aspects of human nutrition and food habits. The books in this series present timely food-related scholarship intended for researchers, academics, students, and those involved in food policy.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Volume 6
\nTHE DANCE OF NURTURE<\/a>
\nNegotiating Infant Feeding
\nPenny Van Esterik and Richard A. O’Connor<\/p>\n

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The Dance of Nurture<\/em> integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding into a holistic framework guided by the metaphor of dance. It includes a critique of efforts to improve infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Volume 4
\nFROM VIRTUE TO VICE<\/a>
\nNegotiating Anorexia
\nRichard A. O’ Connor and Penny van Esterik<\/p>\n

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“I found this to be a top-notch scholarly work written in a way that will be accessible for diverse audiences including students, professional clinicians, academics, and the interested lay public.”<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0Janet Dixon Keller<\/strong>, University of Illinois<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: <\/strong>Negotiating Anorexia<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"Volume 2\u00a0In Paperback<\/em>
\nRECONSTRUCTING OBESITY<\/a>
\nThe Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings
\nEdited by Megan McCullough and Jessica Hardin
\nAfterword by Stephen T. McGarvey<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis 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 \u201cobesity\u201d and \u201coverweight\u201d and, importantly, fat people in social and environmental context\u2026 it makes a welcome and necessary intervention into the business of health research, provision, and discourse, as well as its public reception.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Fat Studies Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Epistemologies of Healing<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

This series publishes monographs and edited volumes on indigenous (so-called traditional) medical knowledge and practice, alternative and complementary medicine, and ethnobiological studies that relate to health and illness. The emphasis of the series is on the way indigenous epistemologies inform healing, against a background of comparison with other practices, and in recognition of the fluidity between them.<\/p>\n

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\"CapturingVolume 17 Forthcoming<\/em><\/p>\n

CAPTURING QUICKSILVER<\/a>
\nThe Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore
\nArielle Ann Smith<\/p>\n

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This book examines the use and practice of Chinese medicine in Singapore, especially in everyday life, and contributes to anthropological debates regarding the post-colonial intersection of knowledge, identity, and governmentality, and to transnational studies of Chinese medicine as a permeable, plural, and fluid practice.<\/p>\n

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\"RitualVolume 16<\/p>\n

RITUAL RETELLINGS<\/a>
\nLuangan Healing Performances through Practice
\nIsabell Herrmans<\/p>\n

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Departing from the conception that rituals exist as ethereal, liminal or insulated traditional domains, this volume demonstrates the importance of understanding rituals as emergent within their specific historical and social settings. It offers an analysis of a number of concrete ritual performances, exemplifying a diversity of ritual genres, stylistic modalities and sensual ambiences, from low-key, habitual affairs to drawn-out, crowd-seizing community rituals and innovative, montage-like cultural experiments.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Anthropology in Action<\/a><\/p>\n

Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice<\/a><\/p>\n

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Anthropology in Action<\/em> (AIA)\u00a0is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles, commentaries, research reports, and book reviews in applied anthropology. 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

Special Issue:\u00a0<\/strong>Negotiating Care in Uncertain Settings and Looking Beneath the Surface of Health Governance Projects<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"Anthropology of the Middle East<\/a><\/p>\n

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This peer-reviewed journal provides a forum for scholarly exchange between anthropologists and other social scientists working in and on the Middle East. The journal’s aim is to disseminate, on the basis of informed analysis and insight, a better understanding of Middle Eastern cultures and thereby to achieve a greater appreciation of Middle Eastern contributions to our culturally diverse world.<\/p>\n

Featured Article:\u00a0<\/strong>Women and Sexuality in Contemporary Iran: When HIV Meets Government Morality<\/em><\/a>
\nKristin Soraya Batmanghelichi<\/p>\n

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\"\"The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology<\/a><\/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.<\/p>\n

Featured Article:\u00a0<\/strong>“But Isn’t It the Baby that Decides When It Will Be Born?” Women’s Embodied Experiences of Giving Birth<\/em><\/a>
\nJoanna White<\/p>\n

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\"\"Boyhood Studies<\/a><\/p>\n

An Interdisciplinary Journal<\/a><\/p>\n

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Boyhood Studies<\/em>\u00a0is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for the discussion of boyhood, young masculinities, and boys’ lives by exploring the full scale of intricacies, challenges, and legacies that inform male and masculine developments.<\/p>\n

Featured Article:\u00a0<\/strong>The Biologically Vulnerable Boy: Framing Sex Differences in Childhood Infectious Disease Mortality<\/em><\/a>
\nHeather T. Battles<\/p>\n

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\"\"Girlhood Studies<\/a><\/p>\n

An Interdisciplinary Journal<\/a><\/p>\n

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Girlhood Studies<\/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.<\/p>\n

Special Issue:\u00a0<\/strong>Girls and their Health<\/a><\/p>\n

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