Embodiment and Experience

Csordas Thomas

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 2
• Students of culture have been increasingly concerned with the ways in which cultural values are inscribed on the body. The unifying theme of these ess... Lees meer

Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect'

Daniel E Moerman

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 9
• Traditionally, the effectiveness of medical treatments is attributed to specific elements, such as drugs or surgical procedures. However, many other f... Lees meer

Medicine and Morality in Haiti

Paul Brodwin

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 3
• Medicine and morality in rural Haiti are shaped both by different local religious traditions and by biomedical and folk medicine practices. People who... Lees meer

Epidemiology and Culture

James A Trostle, Trostle James a

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 13
• Demonstrating how practitioners in the emerging field of "cultural epidemiology" describe human health, communicate with diverse audiences, and interv... Lees meer

Community Participation in Health

Lynn M Morgan

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 1
• A guiding principle of international primary health care since the 1970s is contained in the slogan, 'community participation in health'. In practice,... Lees meer

Doctors for Democracy

Vincanne Adams

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 6
• This book examines the role of Nepali physicians in the revolutionary changes in 1990. These Western trained doctors have always been concerned with d... Lees meer

Medicine and Morality in Haiti

Brodwin Paul Brodwin

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology
• A study of how medicine and morality in rural Haiti are shaped both by local religious traditions and by biomedical and folk medical practices. Lees meer

The Transmission of Chinese Medicine

Elisabeth Hsu

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 7
• This is a study of traditional medical education in the People's Republic of China. The author became a disciple of a scholarly private practitioner, ... Lees meer

Social Lives of Medicines

Susan Reynolds Whyte, Sjaak Van Der Geest, Anita Hardon

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 10
• The focus of this book is medicines (swallowed, injected, rubbed on), as understood by anthropologists concerned solely with their social uses. The te... Lees meer

Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity

Janis Hunter Jenkins

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 11
• Based on international research, this collection incorporates a critical analysis of World Health Organization cross-cultural findings. Contributors s... Lees meer

Community Participation in Health

Lynn Marie Morgan

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 1
• A guiding principle of international primary health care since the 1970s is contained in the slogan, 'community participation in health'. In practice,... Lees meer

Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots

Cheryl Mattingly

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 7
• There is growing interest in "therapeutic narratives" and the relation between narrative and healing. Cheryl Mattingly's ethnography of the practice o... Lees meer

An Ecology of High-Altitude Infancy

Andrea S Wiley

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 12
• Highlighting the roles of ecology, culture, history, and political economy, this book considers how the unique mountain ecology and socio-cultural pat... Lees meer

Doctors for Democracy

Vincanne Adams, Adams Vincanne

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 6
• This book examines the role of Nepali physicians in the revolutionary changes in 1990. These Western trained doctors have always been concerned with d... Lees meer

Pragmatic Women and Body Politics

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 5
• This thought-provoking volume explores women's responses to medical issues and technologies, from infertility in East Africa to prenatal screening in ... Lees meer

Pragmatic Women and Body Politics

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 5
• This thought-provoking volume explores women's responses to medical issues and technologies, from infertility in East Africa to prenatal screening in ... Lees meer

Epidemiology and Culture

James A Trostle

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 13
• Demonstrating how practitioners in the emerging field of "cultural epidemiology" describe human health, communicate with diverse audiences, and interv... Lees meer

An Ecology of High-Altitude Infancy

Andrea S Wiley

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 12
• Highlighting the roles of ecology, culture, history, and political economy, this book considers how the unique mountain ecology and socio-cultural pat... Lees meer

Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots

Cheryl Mattingly, Mattingly Cheryl

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 7
• There is growing interest in "therapeutic narratives" and the relation between narrative and healing. Cheryl Mattingly's ethnography of the practice o... Lees meer

Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect'

Daniel E Moerman

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 9
• Traditionally, the effectiveness of medical treatments is attributed to specific elements, such as drugs or surgical procedures. However, many other f... Lees meer

Questioning Misfortune

Susan Reynolds Whyte

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 4
• This study of adversity and its social causes in rural Uganda considers how people deal with life's uncertainties--sickness, suffering, marital proble... Lees meer

Questioning Misfortune

Susan Reynolds Whyte

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 4
• This study of adversity and its social causes in rural Uganda considers how people deal with life's uncertainties--sickness, suffering, marital proble... Lees meer

Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 11
• Based on international research, this collection incorporates a critical analysis of World Health Organization cross-cultural findings. Contributors s... Lees meer

Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies

Margaret M Lock

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology | nr. 8
• This stimulating collection of essays, a product of a dialogue among anthropologists, sociologists, and philosopher-historians, focuses on the newly c... Lees meer