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Medical anthropology eBooks
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Aghor Medicine
By: Barrett, Ron
Published by: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
The Aghori have been known as the most radical ascetics in India: living naked on the cremation grounds, meditating on corpses, engaging in cannibalism and coprophagy, and consuming intoxicants out of human skulls. This book explores the dynamics of pollution, death, and healing in Aghor medicine. It examines a range of Aghor therapies.
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Price: $15.95
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Culture and Health
By: Winkelman, Michael
Published by: Jossey-Bass
Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior theory. It shows how to address the challenges of cross-cultural medicine through interdisciplinary cultural-ecological models and personal and institutional developmental approaches to cross-cultural adaptation and competency. The book addresses the perspectives of clinically applied anthropology, trans-cultural psychiatry and the medical ecology, critical medical anthropology and symbolic paradigms as frameworks for enhanced comprehension of health and the medical encounter. Includes cultural case studies, applied vignettes, and self-assessments.
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Price: $75.00
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An Ecology of High-Altitude Infancy
By: Wiley, Andrea S.; Harwood, Alan
Published by: Cambridge University Press
This book considers how the unique mountain ecology and socio-cultural patterns of the Himalayan region of Ladakh contribute to a peculiar pattern of infant mortality. Highlighting the roles of ecology, culture, history, and political economy, it stresses the burdens of women's work in this region as crucial to birth outcome.
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Price: $26.00
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Embodied Progress
By: Franklin, Sarah
Published by: Routledge
This book offers a unique perspective on the cultural dimensions of assisted conception techniques such as IVF. It looks at experiences of those who undergo the treatment and asks how such experiences may be variously understood.
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Price: $51.95
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Human Biologists in the Archives
By: Herring, D. Ann; Swedlund, Alan C.; Mascie-Taylor, C. G. Nicholas; Foley, R. A.; Jablonski, Nina; Strier, Karen; Little, Michael; Weiss, Kenneth M.
Published by: Cambridge University Press
In this book, the 'field' is not an exotic locale but the sometimes dusty back rooms of libraries, archives and museums. These largely untapped resources however reveal how the study of human biology through historical documents can expand the horizons of anthropological resarch.
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Price: $48.00
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New Horizons in Medical Anthropology
By: Nichter, Mark; Lock, Margaret
Published by: Routledge
These cutting edge essays and case studies on issues like AIDS, medical technologies and overpopulation, are collected here in honour of Charles Leslie, the influential anthropologist.
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Price: $140.00
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Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems
By: Wilce Jr., James M.
Published by: Routledge
This book introduces a provocative new branch of social theory: the hypothesis that immunity and disease are in part socially constituted. It suggests that immune systems function not only as material entities but also as social symbols.
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Price: $66.95
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