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  • Medical Anthropology in Europe

    Shaping the Field

    Edited by Elisabeth Hsu, Caroline Potter ...
    This collection brings together three generations of medical anthropologists working at European universities to reflect on past, current and future directions of the field. Medical anthropology emerged on an international playing ground, and while other recently compiled anthologies emphasize North American developments, this volume highlights substantial ethnographic and theoretical studies ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Chinese Medicine in East Africa

    An Intimacy with Strangers

    by Elisabeth Hsu ...
    Series Book 20 - Epistemologies of Healing
    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. Rather than taking recourse to the ‘placebo effect’, the author explains through the spatialities and materialities of the medical procedures provided why - apart from ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Chinese Medicine in East Africa

    An Intimacy with Strangers

    by Elisabeth Hsu ...
    Series Book 20 - Epistemologies of Healing
    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. Rather than taking recourse to the ‘placebo effect’, the author explains through the spatialities and materialities of the medical procedures provided why - apart from ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Body in Balance

    Humoral Medicines in Practice

    Edited by Peregrine Horden, Elisabeth Hsu ...
    Series Book 13 - Epistemologies of Healing
    Focusing on practice more than theory, this collection offers new perspectives for studying the so-called “humoral medical traditions,” as they have flourished around the globe during the last 2,000 years. Exploring notions of “balance” in medical cultures across Eurasia, Africa and the Americas, from antiquity to the present, the volume revisits “harmony” and “holism” as main characteristics of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Plants, Health and Healing

    On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology

    Edited by Elisabeth Hsu, Stephen Harris ...
    Series Book 6 - Epistemologies of Healing
    Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South America. Even though medicinal plants have always attracted considerable attention, there is surprisingly little research on the interface of ethnobotany and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    A Practical Introduction

    by Priscilla Alderson ...
    Winner of the 2022 Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize.Critical realism, as a toolkit of practical ideas, helps researchers to extend and clarify their analyses. It resolves problems arising from splits between different research approaches, builds on the strengths of different methods and overcomes their individual limitations.This original text draws on international examples of health and illness ... Read more

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  • The Anthropology of Health and Healing

    by Mari Womack ...
    The Anthropology of Health and Healing provides the first holistic approach to the study of medical anthropology. Over the past two decades, medical anthropology has been the most rapidly growing subfield in anthropology, and a number of medial anthropology texts have been published, focusing primarily on public policy and health care delivery systems. Yet while Anthropologists have researched ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Medical Anthropology

    Edited by Cecil G. Helman ...
    Series series The International Library of Essays in Anthropology
    This important volume includes key papers which outline the history, concepts, research findings and recent controversies in medical anthropology - the cross-cultural study of health, illness and medical care. Among the topics covered are transcultural psychiatry, food and nutrition, anthropology of the body, alcohol and drug use, traditional healers, childbirth and bereavement and the ... Read more

    $295.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Body Studies

    Edited by Bryan Turner ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies – such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and cryonics – have changed how we think about the body.In this collection of thirty original essays by leading ... Read more

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  • Beyond Binary: Understanding Transgenderism and Gender Identity in the 21st Century

    by Amanda Walker ...
    Beyond Binary is a comprehensive guide to understanding transgenderism and gender identity in the 21st century.The book begins by identify the history of both what woman is, and how transgender woman have played a part in the history of feminism. The book then goes on to explore the origins of gender and looks at examples from the modern world as well as comparatives form the animal kingdom to ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts in Body and Society

    by Kate Cregan ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
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    $65.69 USD

  • New Horizons in Medical Anthropology

    Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie

    Edited by Margaret Lock, Mark Nichter ...
    New Horizons in Medical Anthropology is a festschrift in honor of Charles Leslie whose influential career helped shape this subfield of anthropology. This collection of cutting-edge essays explores medical innovation and medical pluralism at the turn of the 21st century. The book accomplishes two things: it reflects recent research by medical anthropologists working in Asia who have been inspired ... Read more

    $73.99 USD