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Published July 2010 Abortion in Asia
Local Dilemmas, Global Politics
Whittaker, A. (ed)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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Published May 2020
Abortion in Post-revolutionary Tunisia
Politics, Medicine and Morality
Maffi, I.
After the revolution of 2011, the electoral victory of the Islamist party ‘Ennahdha’ allowed previously silenced religious and conservative ideas about women’s right to abortion. This book explores the changes and continuity in the local discourses and practices related to the body in Tunisia during this time.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published November 2019
Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies
The Case of France and Belgium
Merchant, J. (ed)
Despite France and Belgium sharing and interacting constantly, access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies are strikingly different. The contributors to this volume are social scientists from France, Belgium, England and the United States and represent different disciplines. Each author has attempted, through the prism of their specialties, to demonstrate and analyse how and why this striking difference in access to ART exists.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
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Published June 2015
Achieving Procreation
Childlessness and IVF in Turkey
Demircioğlu Göknar, M.
Managing social relationships for childless couples in pro-natalist societies can be a difficult art to master. With ethnographic research gathered in northwestern Turkey, this book explores infertility and assisted reproductive technologies within a secular Muslim population and how social experience leads to a decision for — or against — having an IVF.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Forthcoming June 2023
Against Better Judgment
Akrasia in Anthropological Perspectives
McKearney, P. & Evans, N. H. A. (eds)
Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work because they are premised upon ignoring what philosophers call 'akrasia' – that is, the possibility that people might act against their better judgment? The contributors to this volume turn an ethnographic lens upon situations in which people seem to act out of line with what they judge, desire and intend.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Medical Anthropology
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Published March 2005
Ageing Without Children
European and Asian Perspectives on Elderly Access to Support Networks
Kreager, P. & Schröder-Butterfill, E. (eds)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
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Aging and the Digital Life Course
Prendergast, D. & Garattini, C. (eds)
Breaking new ground in the study of technology and aging, this book examines how technological developments are redefining experiences and expectations around growing older in the twenty-first century. This book explores the key themes of social media, robotics, chronic disease and dementia management, care-giving, gaming, migration and data inheritance.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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Published May 2003
Aging in Today's World
Conversations between an Anthropologist and a Physician
Shield, R. R. & Aronson, S. M.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Medical Anthropology
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Published October 2017
The Anthropology of the Fetus
Biology, Culture, and Society
Han, S., Betsinger, T. K., & Scott, A. B. (eds)
As a biological, cultural, and social entity, the human fetus is a multifaceted subject which calls for equally diverse perspectives to fully understand. Anthropology of the Fetus seeks to achieve this by bringing together specialists in biological anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology, all with the ultimate goal of developing a holistic anthropology of the fetus.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2005
Applications of Anthropology
Professional Anthropology in the Twenty-first Century
Pink, S. (ed)
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Medical Anthropology
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Published September 2015
Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase
Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds
Hampshire, K. & Simpson, B. (eds)
The “First Phase” of Assisted Reproductive Technologies followed the first “test-tube baby” birth, when treatments were available only to the wealthy. In the “Second Phase,” these treatments became available to a wider, but still elite, population. This volume explores the “Third Phase,” as ARTs are becoming a standard part of reproductive healthcare.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published August 2009
Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes
Global Encounters with the New Biotechnologies
Birenbaum-Carmeli, D. & Inhorn, M. C. (eds)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
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Published May 2014
Asymmetrical Conversations
Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries
Naraindas, H., Quack, J., & Sax, W. S. (eds)
“This is a compelling and intellectually satisfying volume that offers important new ethnographic work which, I would argue, revitalizes studies of medical pluralism…an important project by some of the most outstanding and well-known scholars in these areas of study — several of whose names readers will recognize and inspire interest in the volume.” · Murphy Halliburton, City University of New York
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
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Published August 2018
Being a Sperm Donor
Masculinity, Sexuality, and Biosociality in Denmark
Mohr, S.
Through ethnographic explorations of the everyday lives of Danish sperm donors, Being a Sperm Donor explores how masculinity and sexuality are reconfigured in a time in which the norms and logics of (reproductive) biomedicine have become ordinary, and examines how the latter’s socio-cultural and political dimensions become intertwined with men’s intimate sense of self.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published October 2016
Biomedical Entanglements
Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society
Herbst, F. A.
Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population’s interaction with modern medicine. The study bridges medical anthropology and global health, exploring how the ‘biomedical’ is imbued with social meaning and how biomedicine affects Giri ways of life.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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Published August 2013
The Body in Balance
Humoral Medicines in Practice
Horden, P. & Hsu, E. (eds)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published June 2020
Borders across Healthcare
Moral Economies of Healthcare and Migration in Europe
Sahraoui, N. (ed)
Borders across Healthcare explores contemporary moral economies of the healthcare-migration nexus through a scalar and relational perspective. The volume documents the many ways in which borders come to disrupt healthcare settings and illuminates how judgements of a health-related deservingness become increasingly important, producing hierarchies that undermine a universal right to healthcare.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Mobility Studies Sociology
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Published June 2005
Breast Feeding and Sexuality
Behaviour, Beliefs and Taboos among the Gogo Mothers in Tanzania
Mabilia, M.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published May 2018
Capturing Quicksilver
The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore
Smith, A. A.
Capturing Quicksilver considers the use, promotion, and legislation of Chinese medicine in Singapore in relation to government policies favoring international investment, urban redevelopment, healthcare regulation, “multiracial” nationalism, and the management of history and heritage. Theoretically and methodologically developed within medical anthropology, it explores embodied experience and individual and group creativity vis-à-vis state agendas.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Published May 2018
Care across Distance
Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration
Hromadžić, A. & Palmberger, M. (eds)
With a broad geographical scope, Care across Distance explores the multiple ways in which care across regional and national borders materializes from and contributes to changes in political economy; family and intergenerational relations; religion and spirituality; ethics and responsibility; and personhood and subjectivity.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published September 2009
Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time
McCourt, C. (ed)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published July 2022
Chinese Medicine in East Africa
An Intimacy with Strangers
Hsu, E.
Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations.
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Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics
Anthropological Analyses and Critiques of Obstetricians’ Practices
Davis-Floyd, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)
Volume 2 in this landmark 3-volume series on The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians looks at cognition, risk, and responsibility in obstetrics. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand obstetricians' differing ideologies and motives for practicing as they do.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published May 2012
Collaborators Collaborating
Counterparts in Anthropological Knowledge and International Research Relations
Konrad, M. (ed)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Applied Anthropology
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Published October 2008
Conceiving Kinship
Assisted Conception, Procreation and Family in Southern Europe
Bonaccorso, M. M. E.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published August 2016
Conceptions
Infertility and Procreative Technologies in India
Bharadwaj, A.
The book examines the causes and consequences of infertility and the rapid proliferation of new reproductive technologies in ‘modern India’. The book emerges from an ethnographic inquiry that explains how assisted conception, as a means of bypassing infertility, is being accommodated, understood and used in India today.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published February 2022
Configuring Contagion
Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics
Meinert, L. & Seeberg, J. (eds)
Expanding our understanding of contagion further than typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about the epidemic and contagious potential of specific infections and non-infectious conditions.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
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Published December 2005
Conjuring Hope
Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia
Lindquist, G.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
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Published June 2016
Cosmos, Gods and Madmen
Frameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine
Littlewood, R. & Lynch, R. (eds)
The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies. The chapters cover a range of ethnographic areas and examine notions of personhood, agency, uncertainty and control among other questions. In so doing, the contributors seek to contextualise understandings within wider cultural understandings found in these areas, linking these concepts to the wider social fabric.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
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Published January 2015
Cousin Marriages
Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change
Shaw, A. & Raz, A. (eds)
Juxtaposing contributions from geneticists and anthropologists, this volume provides a contemporary overview of cousin marriage, presenting 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 “healthy consanguinity.”
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published February 2012
The Cult and Science of Public Health
A Sociological Investigation
Dew, K.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology
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Published November 2014
The Cultural Politics of Reproduction
Migration, Health and Family Making
Unnithan-Kumar, M. & Khanna, S. K. (eds)
Charting the experiences of migrant communities, the volume examines the relationship between movement, reproduction, and health. Informed by research in Europe, Britain, South and East Asia, Canada and Northern America, the chapters examine how healthcare experiences of migrants are embedded in their own worldviews and influenced by wider state systems.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published December 2007
Cultures of Abortion in Weimar Germany
Usborne, C.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Medical Anthropology
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Published April 2019
Cyborg Mind
What Brain–Computer and Mind–Cyberspace Interfaces Mean for Cyberneuroethics
MacKellar, C.
An inter-disciplinary examination of the ethical challenges arisings from direct interfaces between the human brain and computer systems as well as between the mind and cyberspace. This volume is the first extensive study in cyberneuroethics, a subject matter which is certain to have a significant impact in the 21st century and beyond.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
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Published June 2017
The Dance of Nurture
Negotiating Infant Feeding
Van Esterik, P. & O'Connor, R. A.
Breastfeeding and child feeding at the center of nurturing practices, yet the work of nurture has escaped the scrutiny of medical and social scientists. The Dance of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding to detail the efforts to improve infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published December 2008
Dances with Spiders
Crisis, Celebrity and Celebration in Southern Italy
Lüdtke, K.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Performance Studies
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Published January 2020
The Devil is Disorder
Bodies, Spirits and Misfortune in a Trinidadian Village
Lynch, R.
What role might the Devil have in health and illness? The Devil is Disorder explores constructions of the body, health, illness and wider misfortune in a Trinidadian village where evangelical Christianity is growing in popularity. Based on long-term ethnography, the book takes a nuanced cosmological approach to situate evangelical Christian understandings.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion Sociology
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Published November 2020
Dust Inside
Fighting and Living with Asbestos-Related Disasters in Brazil
Mazzeo, A.
Toxic production, disrupted lives and contaminated bodies. Care for unacknowledged suffering, incurable cancers, and immeasurable losses. This book bears witness to the invisible disasters provoked by the asbestos market worldwide and gives a voice to the communities of survivors who struggle daily in the name of social and environmental justice.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)
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Published January 2021
Embodying Borders
A Migrant’s Right to Health, Universal Rights and Local Policies
Ferrero, L., Quagliariello, C., & Vargas, A. C. (eds)
Based on extensive field research, the essays in this volume illuminate the experiences of migrants from their own point of view, providing a critical understanding of the complex social reality in which each experience is grounded.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Medical Anthropology
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Published March 2008
Empathy and Healing
Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology
Skultans, V.
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Published May 2003
Ethics and Genetics
A Workbook for Practitioners and Students
Wert, G. de, Meulen, R. ter, Mordacci, R. & Tallacchini, M.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
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Published May 2003
The Ethics of New Reproductive Technologies
Cases and Questions
Dooley, D., Dalla-Vorgia, P., Garanis-Papdatos, T., & McCarthy, J.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published March 2014
The Ethics of the New Eugenics
MacKellar, C. & Bechtel, C. (eds)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
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Published June 2010
Ethnobotany in the New Europe
People, Health and Wild Plant Resources
Pardo-de-Santayana, M., Pieroni, A. & Puri, R. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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Published March 2009
European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology
Edwards, J. & Salazar, C. (eds)
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Published September 2011
Evidence, Ethos and Experiment
The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa
Geissler, P. W. & Molyneux, C. (eds)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Development Studies
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Published July 2011
Fatness and the Maternal Body
Women's Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy
Unnithan-Kumar, M. & Tremayne, S. (eds)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published September 2017
Fertility, Conjuncture, Difference
Anthropological Approaches to the Heterogeneity of Modern Fertility Declines
Kreager, P. & Bochow, A. (eds)
In the last forty years anthropologists have made major contributions to understanding the heterogeneity of reproductive trends and processes underlying them. Fertility transition, rather than the story of the triumphant spread of Western birth control rationality, family forms, and modern technology to the whole world, reveals a diversity of reproductive means and ends continuing before, during, and after transition.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published August 2019
Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities
Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania
Mattes, D.
Looking at Tanga, a city on the Tanzanian Swahili coast, Dominik Mattes examines the implementation of antiretroviral HIV-treatment (ART) in the area, exploring the manifold infrastructural and social fragilities of treatment provision in public HIV clinics as well as patients’ multi-layered struggles of coming to terms with ART in their everyday lives.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Development Studies
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Published June 2010
Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland
Stethoscopes, Wands and Crystals
Moore, R. & McClean, S. (eds)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published June 2012
Fortune and the Cursed
The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination
Swancutt, K.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
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Published December 2016
A Fragmented Landscape
Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe
De Zordo, S., Mishtal, J., & Anton. J. (eds)
Since 1945, European states’ social policy landscapes have proven remarkably varied, especially when it comes to contentious issues such as abortion, which is governed by a wide range of policy regimes. This volume provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary survey of the struggles over abortion rights in Europe from the immediate postwar era to the present era.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present
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Published March 2015
From Virtue to Vice
Negotiating Anorexia
O' Connor, R. A. & Esterik, P. van
The recovered hold the key to overcoming anorexia. This volume weaves together sufferers’ stories to reveal two accidental afflictions: misdirected development and an activity disorder. Also, as the recovered know anorexia from the inside, they can offer solutions to help other sufferers recover.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Food & Nutrition
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Published October 2018
The Global Age-Friendly Community Movement
A Critical Appraisal
Stafford, P. B. (ed)
This book provides an introduction to the global phenomenon of the age-friendly community movement, through an extensive collection of international case studies by researchers and practitioners. It explores current tensions in the movement and offers a wide-ranging set of recommendations for advancing age-friendly community development.
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Published July 2018
Global Fluids
The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Waste and Value
Kroløkke, C.
Embedded in feminist communication, sociological, and anthropological scholarship, Global Fluids examines the ways in which women’s body products (such as urine, eggs, and placentas) become valuable ingredients in the fertility and cosmetics industries, and develops cultural politics of reusability and extensibility to discuss the moral limits of their global distribution.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published October 2014
Globalized Fatherhood
Inhorn, M. C., Chavkin, W. & Navarro, J.-A. (eds)
Looking through a twenty-first century lens, anthropologists, sociologists, and cultural geographers consider fatherhood from Peru to India to Vietnam. The volume highlights the globally emergent, transnationally inflected transformations in fathering, fatherhood, and family life, suggesting that men throughout the world are responding to globalization as fathers in creative and unprecedented ways.
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Published February 2015
Healing Roots
Anthropology in Life and Medicine
Laplante, J.
Laplante follows umhlonyane — one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. The volume follows the plant anthropologically on its trails and trials of becoming a biopharmaceutical — from the “open air” to controlled environments — learning from the plant itself, and from the people who use it with hopes in healing.
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Published September 2016
Health and Difference
Rendering Human Variation in Colonial Engagements
Widmer, A. & Lipphardt, V. (eds)
In this volume, contributors follow physicians, demographers, nutrition experts, physical anthropologists, colonial agents, military officials and missionaries in colonies all over the globe, with specific attention to how they tried to sort out pressing health problems of populations they perceived to be diverse.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Colonial History
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Published November 2008
Health, Risk, and Adversity
Panter-Brick, C. & Fuentes, A. (eds)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published August 2018
Healthcare in Motion
Immobilities in Health Service Delivery and Access
Vindrola-Padros, C., Johnson G. A., & Pfister, A. E. (eds)
Healthcare in Motion explores the dynamic interrelationship between mobility and healthcare, drawing on case studies from across the world and examining the day-to-day practices of patients and professionals. It considers how the need for health services engenders particular (im)mobility forms, and how mobility is experienced and imagined when it is required for healthcare.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Medical Anthropology
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Published January 2012
Identity Politics and the New Genetics
Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging
Schramm, K., Skinner, D., & Rottenburg, R. (eds)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
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Published December 2008
Impotent Warriors
Perspectives on Gulf War Syndrome, Vulnerability and Masculinity
Kilshaw, S.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published October 2022
Inconceivable Iran
To Reproduce or Not to Reproduce?
Tremayne, S.
This book offers a much-needed analysis of shifting reproductive policies and practices in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a society that is usually represented as either “revolutionary” or “oppressive.” Instead, Tremayne reflects on more than four decades of research to argue that changing reproductive behaviors on the part of ordinary Iranians must always be viewed against the backdrop of core cultural values and traditions.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published October 2015
Indigenous Medicine Among the Bedouin in the Middle East
Abu-Rabia, A.
Modern medicine has penetrated Bedouin tribes, but when serious illnesses strike, even educated people turn to traditional medicine for a remedy. 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 — to their reciprocal enrichment.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published November 2020
Invisible Faces and Hidden Stories
Narratives of Vulnerable Populations and Their Caregivers
Obeng, C. S. & Obeng, S. G. (eds)
Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations, this book looks at how they deal with dimensions of their social life, especially in regards to health. It reflects the socio-political ecologies like public hostility and stereotyping, neglect of their unique health needs, their courage to overcome adversity, and the love of family and healthcare providers in mitigating their problems.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Applied Anthropology Sociology
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Published July 2012
Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Sunni and Shia Perspectives
Inhorn, M. C. & Tremayne, S. (eds)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published June 2009
Islam and New Kinship
Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon
Clarke, M.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published June 2003
Issues in Medical Research Ethics
Boomgaarden, J. & Louhiala, P & Wiesing, U.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published January 2020
Jaguars of the Dawn
Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer
Pierini, E.
Drawing upon over a decade of extensive fieldwork in temples of the Vale do Amanhecer in Brazil and Europe, this ethnography explores how mediums understand their experiences and how they learn to establish relationships with their spirit guides.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Medical Anthropology Sociology
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Published July 2010
Kin, Gene, Community
Reproductive Technologies among Jewish Israelis
Birenbaum-Carmeli, D. & Carmeli, Y.S. (eds)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published March 2009
Kinship and Beyond
The Genealogical Model Reconsidered
Bamford, S. & Leach, J. (eds)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published June 2010
The Land Is Dying
Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya
Geissler, P. W. & Prince, R. J.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
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Published August 2017
Living Before Dying
Imagining and Remembering Home
Davies, J.
This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home, told in a year of daily conversations with patients and staff, highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents of extreme old age, emphasising interaction with care assistants and the different behaviours of men and women.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published June 2014
Living Translation
Language and the Search for Resonance in U.S. Chinese Medicine
Pritzker, S. E.
Integrating theoretical perspectives with carefully grounded ethnographic analyses of everyday interaction and experience, Living Translation examines the worlds of international translators as well as U.S. teachers and students of Chinese medicine, focusing on the transformations that occur as participants engage in a “search for resonance” with foreign terms and concepts. Based on a close examination of heated international debates as well as specific texts, classroom discussions, and interviews with publishers, authors, teachers, and students, Sonya Pritzker demonstrates the “living translation” of Chinese medicine as a process unfolding through interaction, inscription, embodied experience, and clinical practice. By documenting the stream of conversations that together constitute this process, the book thus traces the translation of Chinese medicine from text to practice with an eye towards the social, political, historical, moral, and even personal dimensions involved in the transnational production of knowledge about health, illness, and the body.
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Madness, Bureaucracy and Gender in Mumbai, India
Narratives from a Psychiatric Hospital
Strauss, A.
Regional mental hospitals in India are perceived as colonial artefacts in need of reformation. In the last two decades, there has been discussion around the maltreatment of patients, corruption and poor quality of mental health treatment in these institutions. This ethnography scrutinizes bureaucracy of these asylum-like institutions in the context of national change and the global mental health movement.
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Published June 2019
Making Bodies Kosher
The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England
Kasstan, B.
Analyses the ways in which Haredi Jews negotiate healthcare services using theoretical perspectives in political philosophy. This is the first archival and ethnographic study of Haredi Jews in the UK, and will allow readers to understand how reproductive care issues affect this growing minority population.
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Published February 2023
Making Multiple Babies
Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction
Wu, C.-L.
Human beings have been producing more twins, triplets, and quadruplets than ever before, due to the expansion of medically assisted conception. This book analyzes the anticipatory regimes of making multiple babies. With archival documents, participant observation, in-depth interviews, and registry data, this book traces the global and local governance of the assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) used to tackle multiple pregnancy since the 1970s.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
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Published December 2001
Managing Reproductive Life
Cross-Cultural Themes in Fertility and Sexuality
Tremayne, S. (ed)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published April 2013
Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine
The Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness
Saxer, M.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published May 2007
Medical Identities
Healing, Well Being and Personhood
Maynard, K. (ed)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
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Published December 2010
Medicine Between Science and Religion
Explorations on Tibetan Grounds
Adams, V., Schrempf, M. & Craig, S. R. (ed)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
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Published June 2022
Migration and Health
Challenging the Borders of Belonging, Care, and Policy
El-Shaarawi, N. & Larchanché, S. (eds)
Despite the centrality of migration in our contemporary world, scholarship on mobility and health frequently separates migrants according to legal status, country of origin, destination, or health concern. Yet people on the move and health systems face challenges and opportunities that transcend these boundaries, including border fortification, neoliberal agendas, and climate change. This volume challenges these epistemic borders.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
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Published March 2013
Militant Lactivism?
Attachment Parenting and Intensive Motherhood in the UK and France
Faircloth, C.
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Modern Babylon?
Prostituting Children in Thailand
Montgomery, H.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Moral Power
The Magic of Witchcraft
Stroeken, K.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
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Morality, Hope and Grief
Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa
Dilger, H. & Luig, L. (eds)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Multiple Medical Realities
Patients and Healers in Biomedical, Alternative and Traditional Medicine
Johannessen, H. & Lázár, I. (eds)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Nameless Relations
Anonymity, Melanesia and Reproductive Gift Exchange between British Ova Donors and Recipients
Konrad, M.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Navigating Miscarriage
Social, Medical and Conceptual Perspectives
Kilshaw, S. & Borg, K. (eds)
This collected volume explores miscarriage in diverse historical and cultural settings with contributions from anthropologists, historians and medical professionals. The book considers meanings attached to miscarriage and how religious, cultural, medical and legal forces impact the way miscarriage is experienced and perceived.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
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Negotiating Risk
British Pakistani Experiences of Genetics
Shaw, A.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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A New Look At Thai Aids
Perspectives from the Margin
Fordham, G.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Development Studies
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Published October 2014
Nighttime Breastfeeding
An American Cultural Dilemma
Tomori, C.
Nighttime breastfeeding and sleep for many new parents in the United States is fraught with intense challenges. Through a close ethnographic examination, this volume explores the impact of conflicting medical guidelines about breastfeeding and infant sleep, and uncovers cultural tensions about expectations for children, parents, and their relationship.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Nursing Stories
Life and Death in a German Hospice
Eschenbruch, N.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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Obstetric Violence and Systemic Disparities
Can Obstetrics Be Humanized and Decolonized?
Davis-Floyd, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)
The final volume in this landmark 3-volume series on The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians looks at the challenges, and even violence, that obstetricians face across the world. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand the diverse challenges that obstetricians must overcome.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Obstetricians Speak
On Training, Practice, Fear, and Transformation
Floyd-Davis, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)
For the first time ever in a social science work, obstetricians tell their own stories of training, practice, fear, and transformation. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand the ideologies and motives of individual obstetricians.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published December 2018
Of Life and Health
The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System
Tengan, A. B.
An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, Of Life and Health develops a cultural and epistemological lexicon of Dagara life by examining its religious, ritual, and artistic expressions, and gives a holistic account of the Dagara knowledge system.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Medical Anthropology
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The Online World of Surrogacy
Berend, Z.
Zsuzsa Berend presents a methodologically innovative ethnography of the surrogacy support website in the United States. The Online World of Surrogacy documents collective meaning-making practices that unfold online, and explores their practical, emotional, and moral implications.
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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Published February 2023
Other Worlds, Other Bodies
Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing
Pierini, E., Groisman, A., & Espírito Santo, D. (eds)
This book proposes a sensory ethnography of healing with a focus on ethnographic knowing as embedded in an embodied epistemology of healing. Epistemological embodiment signals that personal scholarly experience of the “unknown”—be it in the form of trance, or as the embodiment of an “other”—shapes the concepts of healing, body, trance, self, and matter by which ethnographers craft out analysis.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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Out of Place
Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Goddard, M.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Parenthood between Generations
Transforming Reproductive Cultures
Pooley, S. & Qureshi, K. (eds)
Parenthood between Generations problematizes linear narratives about the emergence of ‘parenting’ as a dominant ideology. The chapters situate the cross-cutting power of the life-course in specific global historical contexts, so as to examine how reproductive cultures are influenced by demographic change, new technologies, migration and diaspora. Studies of working-class, minority and non-heterosexual families, illegitimacy and adoption shed light on of the diverse ways in which nature, biology, kinship and gender have been understood.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
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The Patient Multiple
An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan
Taee, J.
In Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. The Patient Multiple delves into the context of patients’ daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding paths to health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
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Patient-Centred IVF
Bioethics and Care in a Dutch Clinic
Gerrits, T.
This book places the patient-centred practices of a single clinic in a national context where ARTs are highly regulated (‘Dutch IVF’) and examines how this form of medicine co-shapes the experiences, views and decisions of the women and men using these technologies.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Patients and Agents
Mental Illness, Modernity and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh
Callan, A.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality Medical Anthropology
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Plants, Health and Healing
On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology
Hsu, E. & Harris, S. (eds)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)
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The Politics of Egalitarianism
Theory and Practice
Solway, J. (ed)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Medical Anthropology
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Population, Reproduction and Fertility in Melanesia
Ulijaszek, S.J. (ed)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Powerless Science?
Science and Politics in a Toxic World
Boudia, S. & Jas, N. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Medical Anthropology
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Precious Pills
Medicine and Social Change among Tibetan Refugees in India
Prost, A.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies
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Pregnancy in Practice
Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary US
Han, S.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Preventing Dementia?
Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age
Leibing, A. & Schicktanz, S. (eds)
The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers’ prognosis.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Privileges of Birth
Constellations of Care, Myth, and Race in South Africa
Rogerson, J. J. M.
Focussing ethnographically on private sector maternity care in South Africa, Privileges of birth attends to the ways healthcare and childbirth are shaped by South Africa’s racialised history. Examining the ethics of care in midwife-attended birth, the author offers a unique account of birthing care in the context of elite care services.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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The Problem of Money
African Agency & Western Medicine in Northern Ghana
Bierlich, B. M.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Development Studies
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Problems of Conception
Issues of Law, Biotechnology, Individuals and Kinship
Melhuus, M.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology
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Pursuits of Happiness
Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective
Mathews, G. & Izquierdo, C. (eds)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
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Race, Ethnicity, and Nation
Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics
Wade, P. (ed)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Reconceiving the Second Sex
Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction
Inhorn, M. C., Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, T., Goldberg, H. & Cour Mosegaard, M. la (eds)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published October 2013
Reconstructing Obesity
The Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings
McCullough, M. & Hardin, J. (eds)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Food & Nutrition
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Reluctant Intimacies
Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands
Świtek, B.
Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers’ relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues and their employers.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Remaking the Human
Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement
Jarrín, A. & Pussetti, C. (eds)
The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions – is now a part of our lives. This collection focuses on why people find these practices so seductive, and provides ethnographic insights into people’s motives and aspirations as they embrace or reject enhancement technologies, which are closely entangled with negotiations over gender, class, age, nationality and ethnicity.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State
Cultural Transformations in Childbearing
Unnithan-Kumar, M. (ed)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Reproductive Disruptions
Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium
Inhorn, M. C. (ed)
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Ritual Retellings
Luangan Healing Performances through Practice
Herrmans, I.
The book is an ethnography of belian, a lively tradition of shamanistic curing rituals performed by the Luangans of Indonesian Borneo. This volume demonstrates the importance of understanding rituals as emergent within their specific historical and social settings, and highlights the irreducibility of lived reality to epistemological certainty.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
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Romani Chronicles of COVID-19
Testimonies of Harm and Resilience
Blasco, P. G. y & Fotta, M. (eds)
A ground-breaking volume that gathers the testimonies of NGO workers, street vendors, activists, scholars, health professionals, and creative writers to chronicle the devastating impact of COVID-19 on Romani communities globally.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology
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A Sealed and Secret Kinship
The Culture of Policies and Practices in American Adoption
Modell, J.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Medical Anthropology Sociology
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Social Bodies
Lambert, H. & McDonald, M. (eds)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies
Edwards, J., Harvey, P. & Wade, P. (eds)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Thai in Vitro
Gender, Culture and Assisted Reproduction
Whittaker, A.
In Thailand, infertility remains a source of stigma for couples using assisted reproductive technologies in the quest for a child. This ethnographic account of public and private clinics explores this experience of infertility and the pursuit of assisted reproductive technologies by Thai couples.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published February 2009
Transgressive Sex
Subversion and Control in Erotic Encounters
Donnan, H. & Magowan, F. (eds)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Transitions and Transformations
Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course
Lynch, C. & Danely, J. (eds)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published September 2021
Traumatic Pasts in Asia
History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present
Micale, M. S. & Pols, H. (eds)
Traumatic Pasts in Asia extends Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, explores how these new terrains of investigation inform and enrich earlier understandings.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies Medical Anthropology
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Unforgotten
Love and the Culture of Dementia Care in India
Brijnath, B.
Though the number of people living with dementia in India will rise with increased life expectancy, little is known about how people in India cope with dementia. Unforgotten offers a rich ethnographic account of how middle-class families in urban India care for their relatives with dementia—illuminating idioms on dementia and aging, the experience of care-giving, and the social and cultural barriers in accessing support.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published October 2010
Unsafe Motherhood
Mayan Maternal Mortality and Subjectivity in Post-War Guatemala
Berry, N.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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Where There Is No Midwife
Birth and Loss in Rural India
Pinto, S.
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Published May 2008
Working with Spirit
Experiencing Izangoma Healing in Contemporary South Africa
Wreford, J. T.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
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