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Medical anthropology

  • Migration And Health In The European Unionby Bernd Rechel; Philipa Mladovsky; Walter Devillé

    McGraw-Hill Education 2011; US$ 207.00

    This book, part of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policy series, focuses on the different aspects of migration and health and how they can be addressed by health care systems. This is a key text for health policy makers and advisers. more...

  • Introducing Medical Anthropologyby Merrill Singer; Hans Baer

    AltaMira Press 2011; US$ 36.99

    This new edition introduces students to the growing field of medical anthropology. It reviews the basic perspectives and concepts and the latest debates in the field in a more comprehensive fashion than many other comparable works. more...

  • Deep Chinaby Arthur Kleinman; Yunxiang Yan; Jing Jun; Sing Lee; Everett Zhang

    University of California Press 2011; US$ 27.95

    Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua delve into intimate and sometimes hidden areas of personal... more...

  • Locating Healthby Ericka Dyck

    Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2010; US$ 99.00

    The essays in this collection focus on the dynamic relationship between health and place. Historical and anthropological perspectives are presented – each discipline having a long tradition of engaging with these concepts. The resulting dialogue should produce a new layer of methodology, enhancing both fields. more...

  • Scripting Addictionby E. Summerson Carr

    Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 30.95

    Scripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. It is a world where clinical practitioners evaluate how drug users speak about themselves and their problems, and where the ideal of "healthy" talk is explicitly promoted, carefully monitored, and identified as the primary sign of therapeutic... more...

  • Age Estimation of the Human Skeletonby Krista E. Latham; Michael Finnegan

    Charles C Thomas 2010; US$ 49.95

    Age Estimation of the Human Skeleton is a needed up-to-date book providing anthropologists and anatomists with a broad spectrum of techniques focused on aging human skeletal remains. It represents the most current reference book devoted entirely to estimating age at death for skeletonized and decomposed human remains and is a convenient starting point... more...

  • The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicineby ELISA J. SOBO; MARTHA OEHMKE LOUSTAUNAU

    ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 45.00

    Notable anthropologist George Foster defined the first edition as "a very readable introductory text dealing with the sociocultural aspects of health," adding: "[T]he authors do a commendable jobÉ . I have profited from reading The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine". With engaging examples, minimal jargon, and updated scholarship, the... more...

  • The Taste for Knowledgeby Sylvie Fainzang; Hans Eimar Hem; Mette Bech Risør

    Aarhus University Press 2010; US$ 27.72

    The Taste for Knowledge: Medical anthropology facing medical realities demonstrates how medical anthropology is becoming increasingly important in the fields of medical research and public health.The taste for knowledge is precisely what readers of this book will come to share with the authors, who examine some of the major issues in medical anthropology... more...

  • Juvenile Osteologyby Louise Scheuer; Sue Black; Maureen C. Schaefer

    Elsevier Science 2010; US$ 53.95

    The need for a laboratory and field manual to assist with the evaluation of juvenile skeletal material is long overdue. This resource is essential for the practising osteoarchaeologist and forensic anthropologist who requires a quick, reliable and easy-to-use reference to aid in the identification, siding and aging of juvenile osseous material. While... more...

  • Biocultural Histories in La Floridaby Christopher Stojanowski

    University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 29.95

    Indigenous populations respond to colonial expansion. This book examines the effects of the Spanish mission system on population structure and genetic variability in indigenous communities living in northern Florida and southern Georgia during the 16th and 17th centuries. Data on tooth size were collected from 26 archaeological samples representing... more...