Human biology

The last twenty years have seen a growth in multi-disciplinary work in the area of sexuality, culture and health.

The last twenty years have seen a growth in multi-disciplinary work in the area of sexuality, culture and health.

The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology.

The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology.

In her latest contribution to the growing field of emotion studies, Deidre Pribram makes a compelling argument for why culturalist approaches to the study of emotional "e;disorders"e; continue to be eschewed, even as the sociocultural and historical study of mental illness flourishes.

In her latest contribution to the growing field of emotion studies, Deidre Pribram makes a compelling argument for why culturalist approaches to the study of emotional "e;disorders"e; continue to be eschewed, even as the sociocultural and historical study of mental illness flourishes.

In what ways has psychology become more influential in Western society?

In what ways has psychology become more influential in Western society?

Cancer is a transnational condition involving the unprecedented flow of health information, technologies, and people across national borders.

Cancer is a transnational condition involving the unprecedented flow of health information, technologies, and people across national borders.

First published in 1990, this is a compilation of several important papers that have contributed to the foundation of population genetics, evolutionary biology and human genetics.

Drawing on the case of HIV/AIDS in Thailand, this book examines how anthropological and other interpretative social science research has been utilized in modeling the AIDS epidemic, and in the design and implementation of interventions.

Drawing on the case of HIV/AIDS in Thailand, this book examines how anthropological and other interpretative social science research has been utilized in modeling the AIDS epidemic, and in the design and implementation of interventions.

This volume on medical tourism includes contributions by anthropologists and historians on a variety of health-seeking modes of travel and leisure.

This volume on medical tourism includes contributions by anthropologists and historians on a variety of health-seeking modes of travel and leisure.

This collection brings together three generations of medical anthropologists working at European universities to reflect on past, current and future directions of the field.

This collection brings together three generations of medical anthropologists working at European universities to reflect on past, current and future directions of the field.

Ageing is widely recognised as one of the social and economic challenges in the contemporary, globalised world, for which scientific, technological and medical solutions are continuously sought.

Why people kill themselves remains an enduring and unanswered question.

Why people kill themselves remains an enduring and unanswered question.

The great hurry to realise promised cures in stem cell research requires regulation to guarantee bioethical research practices.

The great hurry to realise promised cures in stem cell research requires regulation to guarantee bioethical research practices.

Third party conception is a growing phenomenon and provokes a burgeoning range of ethical, legal and social questions.

Third party conception is a growing phenomenon and provokes a burgeoning range of ethical, legal and social questions.

Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all about a doctor s day with this fun-filled non-fiction reader carefully levelled to help children progress.

To date, geography has not yet carved out a disciplinary niche within the diffuse domain that constitutes global health.

To date, geography has not yet carved out a disciplinary niche within the diffuse domain that constitutes global health.

How does a mind think magically?

How does a mind think magically?

Medical therapy, research and technology enable us to make our bodies, or parts of them, available to others in an increasing number of ways.

Medical therapy, research and technology enable us to make our bodies, or parts of them, available to others in an increasing number of ways.

Biolinguistics is a highly interdisciplinary field that seeks the rapprochement between linguistics and biology.

Biolinguistics is a highly interdisciplinary field that seeks the rapprochement between linguistics and biology.

Culturally safe healthcare is rapidly challenging previous notions of cultural competency or cultural sensitivity in healthcare provision.

Culturally safe healthcare is rapidly challenging previous notions of cultural competency or cultural sensitivity in healthcare provision.

Health and Other Unassailable Values sets out to examine health as a core cultural value.

Health and Other Unassailable Values sets out to examine health as a core cultural value.

Bodies and Lives in Ancient America offers a broad overview of what it was like to live and die throughout North America before European contact.

Bodies and Lives in Ancient America offers a broad overview of what it was like to live and die throughout North America before European contact.

This book aims to introduce nurses and other healthcare professionals to how anthropology can help them understand nursing as a profession and as a culture.

This book aims to introduce nurses and other healthcare professionals to how anthropology can help them understand nursing as a profession and as a culture.

The problem of addiction is one of the major challenges and controversies confronting medicine and society.

The problem of addiction is one of the major challenges and controversies confronting medicine and society.

Giving Blood represents a new agenda for blood donation research.

Giving Blood represents a new agenda for blood donation research.

Winner of the Reader Views Literary Award, Societal Issues and the Reviewers Choice Best Non-fiction Book of the Year, Specialty Awards, Schooled on Fat explores how body image, social status, fat stigma and teasing, food consumption behaviors, and exercise practices intersect in the daily lives of adolescent girls and boys.

Winner of the Reader Views Literary Award, Societal Issues and the Reviewers Choice Best Non-fiction Book of the Year, Specialty Awards, Schooled on Fat explores how body image, social status, fat stigma and teasing, food consumption behaviors, and exercise practices intersect in the daily lives of adolescent girls and boys.

This volume examines the biocultural dimensions of obesity from an anthropological perspective in an effort to broaden understanding of a growing public health concern.

This volume examines the biocultural dimensions of obesity from an anthropological perspective in an effort to broaden understanding of a growing public health concern.

Fatigue is a condition spanning the breadth of human functioning in health and disease and is a central concern in sport and exercise.