Embodying Culture

Tsipy Ivry

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• Embodying Culture is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy in two different cultures--Japan and Israel--both of which medicalize pregn... Lees meer

Surviving Hiv/AIDS in the Inner City

Sabrina Chase

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City explores the survival strategies of poor, HIV-positive Puerto Rican women by asking four key questions: Given the... Lees meer

Sleep Paralysis

Shelley R Adler

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• Sleep Paralysis explores a distinctive form of nocturnal fright: the "night-mare," or incubus. In its original meaning a night-mare was the nocturnal ... Lees meer

Obesity

Alexandra a Brewis

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• In a world now filled with more people who are overweight than underweight, public health and medical perspectives paint obesity as a catastrophic epi... Lees meer

Veins of Devotion

Jacob Copeman

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• According to public health orthodoxy, blood for transfusion is safer when derived from voluntary, nonremunerated donors. As developing nations phase o... Lees meer

Reproducing Inequities

M Catherine Maternowska

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• Residents of Haiti-one of the poorest and most unstable countries in the world-face a grim reality of starvation, violence, lack of economic opportuni... Lees meer

Embodying Culture

Tsipy Ivry

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• Embodying Culture is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy in two different cultures--Japan and Israel--both of which medicalize pregn... Lees meer

Veins of Devotion

Jacob Copeman

• Hardcover | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• Details collaborations between guruled devotional movements and public health campaigns to encourage voluntary blood donation in northern India. This ... Lees meer

Reproducing Inequities

M. Catherine Maternowska

• Hardcover | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• Through a detailed study of the attempt to provide modern contraception in the community of Cite Soleil, this book demonstrates the complex interplay ... Lees meer

Abject Relations

Megan Warin

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• Abject Relations presents an alternative approach to anorexia, long considered the epitome of a Western obsession with individualism, beauty, self-con... Lees meer

Comprehending Drug Use

J Bryan Page, Merrill Singer

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• Comprehending Drug Use , the first full-length critical overview of the use of ethnographic methods in drug research, synthesizes more than one hundre... Lees meer

Your Pocket Is What Cures You

Ellen E Foley

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• In the wake of structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and health reforms in the 1990s, the majority of sub-Saharan African governments spend less... Lees meer

Thinking About Dementia

Annette Leibing

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, this volume approaches dementia from a variety of angles, exploring its historical, psycholog... Lees meer

With Shaking Hands

Samantha Solimeo

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• Far from celebrity media spotlight, ordinary individuals, many older and less advantaged, suffer the disabling pain of Parkinson's disease (PD), an il... Lees meer

Thinking About Dementia

• Hardcover | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• Explores the historical, psychological, and philosophical implications of dementia. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this book employs a cross-cultura... Lees meer

Your Pocket Is What Cures You

Ellen E Foley

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• In the wake of structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and health reforms in the 1990s, the majority of sub-Saharan African governments spend less... Lees meer

Obesity

Alexandra a Brewis

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• In a world now filled with more people who are overweight than underweight, public health and medical perspectives paint obesity as a catastrophic epi... Lees meer

Healing the Body Politic

Sandy Smith-Nonini

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• Incorporating investigative journalism and drawing on interviews with participants and leaders, Sandy Smith-Nonini examines the contested place of hea... Lees meer

Chronic Conditions, Fluid States

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse loc... Lees meer

The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram

Janelle S Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• In The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram , medical anthropologist Janelle S. Taylor analyzes the full sociocultural context of ultrasound technology a... Lees meer

Surviving Hiv/AIDS in the Inner City

Sabrina Chase

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City explores the survival strategies of poor, HIV-positive Puerto Rican women by asking four key questions: Given the... Lees meer

An Uncertain Cure

Cassandra White

• Hardcover | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• Takes you into the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro to give an account of the contemporary leprosy experience among poor and working class Brazilians. Th... Lees meer

An Uncertain Cure

Cassandra White

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medical Anthropology
• In many cultures, leprosy elicits fear, stigma, and misunderstanding. Historically, people affected by leprosy were banished or isolated from the rest... Lees meer