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Biotechnology and CultureBodies, Anxieties, EthicsEdited by Paul BrodwinUntangles the broad cultural effects of biotechnologies "A timely and perceptive look......

This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Stacey A. Langwick investigates the practices...

The political economy of love for youth in Uganda Author: Parikh, Shanti Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press Illustration: n Language: ENG Title: Regulat......

Neither power nor morality but both. Moral power is what Sukuma farmers in Tanzania in times of crisis attribute to...

Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures...

The Anthropology of Health and Healing is the first text to take an integrative approach to the discipline of medical...

This collection is dedicated to the diagnostic moment and its unrivaled influence on encompassment and exclusion in health care. Diagnosis...

The Anthropology of Alternative Medicine is a concise yet wide-ranging exploration of the cultural underpinnings of non-biomedical healing. Author: Ross, An......

There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas, practices, technologies...

In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments....

Following the detection of the first HIV infections in the early 1980s, by the 1990s Thailand was routinely depicted as...

Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. Medicine,...

Radical changes in our understanding of health and healthcare are reshaping twenty-first-century personhood. In the last few years, there has...

Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change. Through case...

What does human suffering mean for society? And how has this meaning changed from the past to the present? In...

Anthropologist Donald Joralemon asks whether America is really, as many scholars claim, a death-denying culture that prefers to quarantine the...

Tanzanian Women in Their Own Words is a compilation of oral histories by Tanzanian women living with disabilities or chronic...

Healing practices in Mesoamerica span a wide range, from traditional folk medicine with roots reaching back into the prehispanic era...

Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Language and LinguisticsData. Suddenly it is everywhere, and more and more of it...

Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation’s jails every year. What happens to them as they carry their pregnancies...