3rd edition. — Routledge, 2016. — 460 p. The editors of the third edition of the seminal textbook Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology bring it completely up to date for both instructors and students. The collection of 49 readings (17 of them new to this edition) offers extensive background description and exposes students to the breadth of theoretical,...
Sidestone Press, 2021. — 170 p. Hidden healing practices exert fascination and stimulate extensive scientific and public interest. It is a contested topic for many indigenous peoples. Throughout the ages, numerous spiritual healing forms have been marginalized or severely persecuted. Nowadays, however, there is a growing interest in these traditions all over the world. Some are...
14th edition. — Pearson Education, 2015. — 688 p. — ISBN 978-0-205-95718-7. Anthropology, provides students with a comprehensive and scientific introduction to the holistic four fields of anthropology and the important role of applied anthropology. Readers will understand humans in all their variety, and why such variety exists. It also show students how anthropological skill...
New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. — 567 p. A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities brings together articles from the key theoretical approaches in the field of medical anthropology as well as related science and technology studies. The editors’ comprehensive introductions evaluate the historical lineages of these approaches and their value in...
London: Routledge: 2017. — 170 p. Now in its fourth edition, Exploring Medical Anthropology provides a concise and engaging introduction to medical anthropology. It presents competing theoretical perspectives in a balanced fashion, highlighting points of conflict and convergence. Concrete examples and the author’s personal research experiences are utilized to explain some of the...
Routledge, 2007. — 244 p. Social scientific studies of medicine typically assume that systems of medical knowledge are uniform and consistent. But while anthropologists have long rejected the notion that cultures are discrete, bounded, and rule-drive entities, medical anthropology has been slower to develop alternative approaches to understanding cultures of health. This...
New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. — 562 p. In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of material bodies with history, environment, culture, and politics. Drawing on historical and ethnographic work, the book critiques the assumption...
UCL Press, 2021. — 478 p. — ISBN 978-1-80008-024-9. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted some lives more than others. While more than half the world’s population experienced physical restrictions in the wake of the virus, Viral Loads reveals how the international response placed disparate burdens on exploited communities across the globe. Contributors from six continents situate the...
New York: Routledge, 2016. — 424 p. The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology. In this exciting departure from conventional handbooks, compendia and encyclopedias, the three editors have written the core chapters of the volume, and in so doing, invite the reader to reflect on the ethnographic...
Springer, 2021. — 395 p. This volume reflects on how anthropologists have engaged in medical education and aims to positively influence the future careers of anthropologists who are currently engaged or are considering a career in medical education. The volume is essential for medical educators, administrators, researchers, and practitioners, those interested in the history of...
Boulder: Westview Press, 2015. — 401 p. Global environmental change and recent worldwide infectious-disease outbreaks make the ecological perspective of medical anthropology more important a field of study than ever. In this premier teaching text, authors Ann McElroy and Patricia K. Townsend integrate biocultural, environmental, and evolutionary approaches to the study of human...
Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press, 2005 — 184 p. — ISBN10: 0335218504; ISBN13: 978-0335218509. Medical anthropology is playing an increasingly important role in public health. This book provides an introduction to the basic concepts, approaches and theories used, and shows how these contribute to understanding complex health related behaviour. Public health policies and...
Routledge, 1994. — 298 p. The etiology of the Wimbum people in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon is described through an examination of the way in which the meanings of key concepts, used to interpret and explain illness and other forms of misfortune, are continually being produced and reproduced in the praxis of everyday communication. During the course of numerous...
Duke University Press, 2022. — 224 p. India has long occupied an important place in Tibetan medicine's history and development. However, Indian Himalayan practitioners of Tibetan medicine, or amchi, have largely remained overlooked at the Tibetan medical periphery, despite playing a central social and medical role in their communities. Power and legitimacy, religion and...
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 288 p. On an Empty Stomach examines the practical techniques humanitarians have used to manage and measure starvation, from Victorian "scientific" soup kitchens to space-age, high-protein foods. Tracing the evolution of these techniques since the start of the nineteenth century, Tom Scott-Smith argues that humanitarianism is not a simple story...
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. — 321 p. Introducing Medical Anthropology, Third Edition, is intended for use in the medical anthropology course taught primarily at four year universities. Third Edition: Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action Copyright Page About the Authors Introduction to the Anthropology of Health Introduction and Overview Encountering...
2nd Edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 496 p. The fully revised new edition of the defining reference work in the field of medical anthropology. A Companion to Medical Anthropology , Second Edition provides the most complete account of the key issues and debates in this dynamic, rapidly growing field. Bringing together contributions by leading international authorities in...
2nd Edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 496 p. The fully revised new edition of the defining reference work in the field of medical anthropology. A Companion to Medical Anthropology , Second Edition provides the most complete account of the key issues and debates in this dynamic, rapidly growing field. Bringing together contributions by leading international authorities in...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 576 p. In a global environment of enormous health challenges, medical anthropologists offer important understandings of health systems and healing practices around the world. These leading international scholars assess our persisting problems of malnutrition, chronic and infectious diseases, and the influence of escalating levels of inequality, poverty,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2024. — 546 p. — ISBN 9781119845348. A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the anthropological study of reproductive practices, technologies, and interventions in a global context. Exploring the medical and technological management of human reproduction through a sociocultural...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2024. — 546 p. — ISBN 9781119845355. A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the anthropological study of reproductive practices, technologies, and interventions in a global context. Exploring the medical and technological management of human reproduction through a sociocultural...
Jossey-Bass, 2008. — 512 p. 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...
Саратов: Саратовский гос. технический ун-т, 2015. — 320 с. В монографии излагаются основные эпизоды становления современной медицинской антропологии - социальной дисциплины, анализирующей проблемы болезни и врачевания в культурном и социально-экономическом контекстах. Особое внимание уделяется творчеству ее пионеров (Дж. Фостер, Х. Вейдман) и современных лидеров (А. Клейнман,...
Учебное пособие для студентов. — Саратов: Новый Проект, 2010. — 80 с. — ISBN 987-5-904832-10-0 Настоящее пособие подготовлено с использованием материалов учебного курса «Медицинская антропология», который с 2001 г. читается автором в Саратовском государственном техническом университете. В нем представлена краткая история развития медицинской антропологии, дан обзор современных...
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