Human biology

Navigating Digital Health Landscapes explores how users navigate the internet when searching for health information.

This book describes community ophthalmology professionals in South Asia who demonstrate social entrepreneurship in global health to help the rural poor.

Species of Contagion examines the political and social implications of xenotransplantation for bodies, nations, and species.

The proceedings were designed to bring together researchers who share a common interest in the quantitative description of the biological form.

This book explores the ways in which socio-technical settings in medical contexts find varying articulations in a specific locale.

This new edition of Health Studies provides an authoritative and contemporary introduction to the study of health.

Biology Trending is a truly innovative introductory biology text.

The intersection of evolutionary and positive psychology allows us to understand and improve the overall wellbeing of one''s life.

The intersection of evolutionary and positive psychology allows us to understand and improve the overall wellbeing of one''s life.

What's in Your Genome?

What's in Your Genome?

Diet is key to understanding the past, present, and future of our species.

This volume, written in a readable and enticing style, is based on a simple premise, which was to have several exceptional ethnographers write about their experiences in an evocative way in real time during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The complex, highly problematic, often thorny dynamics of trust and authority are central to the anthropological study of legitimacy.

This book presents important concepts from medical and socio-cultural anthropology to health professionals working with organ transplantation involving indigenous populations.

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From evolution to empire, how biology has steered the course of civilisation.

Emiliano Bruner, uno de los principales expertos en paleoantropología, nos muestra cómo evolucionó el cerebro desde los primeros homininos hasta el homo sapiens.

First published in 1980, The limbo people is based upon research carried out in a day centre ('the Centre') for elderly Jewish people in a London Borough and studies the experience and the conception of time among the elderly.

First published in 1982 in the Identity of Man Professor Clark considers a problem which has puzzled men from the authors of the books of the Old Testament to Charles Darwin and his successors: how to reconcile the animal appetites of men with their awareness of gods and their intimations of immortality.

Major advancements in the field of in situ molecular pathology have occurred since publication of the first edition.

Atlas of the Morphology of the Human Cerebral Cortex on the Average MNI Brain provides a comprehensive identification of the sulci and gyri of the human brain on a series of coronal sections of the average MNI brain and identifies the likely location of the cytoarchitectonic areas of the cerebral cortex.

Atlas of the Morphology of the Human Cerebral Cortex on the Average MNI Brain provides a comprehensive identification of the sulci and gyri of the human brain on a series of coronal sections of the average MNI brain and identifies the likely location of the cytoarchitectonic areas of the cerebral cortex.

An out-of-this world guide to the wonders of physics for children aged 8 and up - as told by scientific sleuth Sherlock Ohms and his rodent sidekicks.

First published in 1982 in the Identity of Man Professor Clark considers a problem which has puzzled men from the authors of the books of the Old Testament to Charles Darwin and his successors: how to reconcile the animal appetites of men with their awareness of gods and their intimations of immortality.

COVID-19 was first identified in Wuhan City in December 2019 and spread throughout Hubei Province and other parts of China.

First published in 1980, The limbo people is based upon research carried out in a day centre ('the Centre') for elderly Jewish people in a London Borough and studies the experience and the conception of time among the elderly.

An eye-opening investigation - combining reporting, history and cutting-edge science - into allergies and their rise in recent decadesHay fever.

This book is an ethnographic work that uses a critical medical anthropology approach to examine the concept of fever care in the context of southern India.

The book outlines post-Soviet style of health management in Central Asia.

The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural eraOver the course of five million years, our primate ancestors evolved from a modest population of sub-Saharan apes into the globally dominant species Homo sapiens.

This ambitious sourcebook surveys both the traditional basis for and the present  state of indigenous women's reproductive health in Mexico and Central America.

A raccoon bite on the arm doesn't seem that serious, but it soon becomes a life-or-death medical crisis for Melissa Loomis.

Recent work in the mobilities literature has highlighted the importance of thinking about mobility and immobility as a continuum, where movement intersects with processes that might entail episodes of transition, waiting, emptiness, and fixity.

This book recounts the author's fieldwork among the trans and gender-variant communities in Naples.

This book is an attempt to understand suicide from the perspective of a group of men who decided to take their own lives.

A tribute to the parts we can live without.

Intended for all readers--including magicians, detectives, musicians, orthopedic surgeons, and anthropologists--this book offers a thorough account of that most intriguing and most human of appendages: the hand.

Biology Trending is a truly innovative introductory biology text.

Crate presents the first cultural ecological study of a Siberian people: the Viliui Sakha, contemporary horse and cattle agropastoralists in northeastern Siberia.

Over several years, Christian Suhr followed Muslim patients being treated for jinn possession and psychosis in a Danish mosque and in a psychiatric hospital.

Biomarkers of Kidney Disease, Second Edition, focuses on the basic and clinical research of biomarkers in common kidney diseases, detailing the characteristics of an ideal biomarker.

An anthropologist uncovers new evidence for the evolutionary origins of human longevityand explains why growing old is an opportunity, not a burdenOur ability to live for decades may seem like a modern luxury made possible by clean water and advances in medicine.

Help your child to understand that science is everywhere!

To the Western eye, there is something jarringly incongruous, even shocking, about the image of a six-year-old girl being held down by loving relatives so that her genitals can be cut.

Did you know that your body is a very powerful machine?

What is the color of your hair?

Send your little ones to a short field trip to the farms without actually sending them away physically.

This educational book is all about the parts of the body and everything physiological.

Human anatomy is complex if you really want to dig deeper.