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Complementary Medicine in Australia and New Zealand
eContent Management Pty Ltd 2009; US$ 99.00An essential foundation text for any Australian or New Zealand course on complementary medicine, this book charts the origins of the movement, its struggle for legitimation, its dilemmas, evolution and current popularity. more...
Global Capitalism and Climate Change: The Need for an Alternative World System
AltaMira Press 2012; US$ 94.99This book constitutes an effort to develop a critical social science of climate change, one that posits its roots in global capitalism with its emphasis on profit-making, a treadmill of production and consumption, heavy reliance on fossil fuels, and commitment to ongoing economic expansion. more...
Integrative, Complementary and Alternative Medicine
eContent Management Pty Ltd 2008; US$ 110.00Whereas alternative medicine is often defined as functioning outside biomedicine and complementary medicine beside it; integrative medicine purports to combine the best of both biomedicine and CAM. Some social scientists have argued biomedicine has become more holistic as a result of this development, whereas others suggest it has embarked upon a subtle... more...
Killer commodities
AltaMira Press 2008; US$ 36.99Killer Commodities addresses the impact of harmful products on consumers throughout the world. These case studies highlight the processes of production and marketing of these products, as well as the nature of relevant public health policies. more...
Introducing Medical Anthropology
AltaMira Press 2011; US$ 36.99This 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...
Climate Politics And The Climate Movement In Australia
Melbourne University Publishing 2012; Not AvailableClimate change is the hottest topic of the twenty-first century and the climate movement a significant global social movement. This book examines the broad context of Australian climate politics and the place of the climate movement within it. Acting 'from above' are the most powerful forces-corporations and governments, both Labor and Coalition-with... more...
Medical Anthropology and the World System
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 147.00Medical anthropology is one of the youngest and most dynamic of anthropology's various subdisciplines. Critical medical anthropology has evolved into one of the major perspectives through which faculty and students study the field. It examines health-related issues in precapitalist indigenous and state societies, capitalist societies, and postrevolutionary... more...
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