Human biology

This edited collection explores the multiple ways in which ethnography and health emerge and take form through the research process.

This book examines how complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) - as knowledge, philosophy and practice - is constituted by, and transformed through, broader social developments.

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

This book examines the future of birthing practices, particularly by focusing on epidural analgesia in childbirth.

This book represents the first multi-disciplinary introduction to the study of war crimes trials and investigations.

This book discusses fundamental discourses relating to health in Africa arising out of the consequences of endemic diseases in Africa.

This book traces the history of formative, enduring concepts, foundational in the development of the health disciplines.

This book explores how conditions for childbearing are changing in the 21st century under the impact of new biomedical technologies.

Over the years, impairment has been discussed in bioarchaeology, with some scholars providing carefully contextualized explanations for their causes and consequences.

This book investigates how individual cancer narratives change in an age of networked social media.

This volume explores the arts-based methodology of body mapping, a participant-driven approach wherein people create richly illustrated life-size maps that articulate their embodied experiences with various health issues.

The contributions to this volume map the surprisingly multifarious circumstances in which trauma is invoked - as an analytical tool, a therapeutic term or as a discursive trope.

Der Verstand gilt als schärfste Waffe des Menschen.

This book applies a multi-disciplinary lens to examine obstetric fistula, a childbirth injury that results from prolonged, obstructed labor.

This book provides a definitive account of koro, a topic of long-standing interest in the field of cultural psychiatry in which the patient displays a fear of the genitals shrinking and retracting.

The second and expanded edition of this award-winning book provides the most up-to-date and important efforts for improving the quality of life in communities around the world.

This book presents an in-depth qualitative study carried out with inpatients under treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs) in seven therapeutic communities (TCs) located in three countries: Peru, Nicaragua and Czech Republic.

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

This book applies a multi-disciplinary lens to examine obstetric fistula, a childbirth injury that results from prolonged, obstructed labor.

The second and expanded edition of this award-winning book provides the most up-to-date and important efforts for improving the quality of life in communities around the world.

This book provides a definitive account of koro, a topic of long-standing interest in the field of cultural psychiatry in which the patient displays a fear of the genitals shrinking and retracting.

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

This book addresses the over-prescribing of antidepressants in people with mostly mild and subthreshold depression.

This collection of articles reveals ritual to be a unique and powerful asset in healing trauma and broken relationships.

This book tells the story of the HIV epidemic in South Africa, and asks why, after more than three decades, it has not normalised.

This book presents the first single comprehensive analysis of the scope of geographical realities and relevance in health care work.

This volume reflects on how anthropologists have engaged in medical education and aims to positively influence the future careers of anthropologists who are currently engaged or are considering a career in medical education.

In Israel, where the Orthodox rabbinate wields historically sanctioned influence over the legal definitions of marriage and parenthood, same-sex parenthood raises important questions such as what constitutes belonging to the national collective, who has the authority to define the norms of reproduction, and where the boundaries of Orthodox Judaism begin and end.

Unpacking assumptions about corseting, Rebecca Gibson supplements narratives of corseted women from the 18th and 19th centuries with her seminal work on corset-related skeletal deformation.

A narrative ethnography about a Ugandan woman and her relatives, this novelistic, fine-grained volume shows how global questions of responsibility and inequity travel in family networks and confront people with decisions about life and death.

This book takes a historical and anthropological approach to understanding how non-human hosts and vectors of diseases are understood, at a time when emerging infectious diseases are one of the central concerns of global health.

This book examines how science fiction's portrayal of humanity's desire for robotic companions influences and reflects changes in our actual desires.

This book paints a comprehensive portrait of Mexico's system of assisted reproduction first from a historical perspective, then from a more contemporary viewpoint.

This book provides an up-to-date description of cross-cultural aspects of end-of-life decision-making.

This book addresses how skeletons can inform us about behavior by describing skeletal lesions in the Gombe chimpanzees, relating them to known life histories whenever possible, and analyzing demographic patterns in the sample.

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

This book is the first of its kind to examine key topics in death, dying, and bereavement through a critical lens, highlighting how the understanding and experience of death can vary considerably, based on social, cultural, historical, political, and medical contexts.

This book investigates the ways in which context shapes how cognitive challenges and strengths are navigated and how these actions impact the self-esteem of individuals with dementia and their conversational partners.

This ethnography takes the reader into the Australian suburbs to learn about food, eating and bodies during the highly political context of one of Australia's largest childhood obesity interventions.

Savais-tu.

Savais-tu.

Saviez-vous que le castor peut peser plus de 30 kilos, soit à peu près le poids d’un enfant de 7 ans?

Pourquoi le sang est-il rouge?

Pourquoi le sang est-il rouge?