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  • Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram

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    E-bok, 2008, Engelska, ISBN 9780813545608

    In The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram, medical anthropologist Janelle S. Taylor analyzes the full sociocultural context of ultrasound technology and imagery. Drawing upon

  • Coping Rituals in Fearful Times

    E-bok, 2022, Engelska, ISBN 9783030815349

    This collection of articles reveals ritual to be a unique and powerful asset in healing trauma and broken relationships. Each contribution offers insights on how, in the face of

  • Anthropology of Nursing

    E-bok, 2019, Engelska, ISBN 9781317431152
    Från 720 kr

    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. Drawing on key

  • Pregnancy and Birth in Russia

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    E-bok, 2022, Engelska, ISBN 9781000771749

    This book provides a theoretically and empirically grounded examination of the struggle for maternity care in contemporary Russia, framed by changes to the healthcare system and

  • Kin, Gene, Community

    E-bok, 2010, Engelska, ISBN 9781845458362

    Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance. It also has the world's highest per capita usage

  • Preventing Dementia?

    E-bok, 2020, Engelska, ISBN 9781789209105

    The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of

  • Cosmos, Gods and Madmen

    E-bok, 2016, Engelska, ISBN 9781785331787

    The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies: how societies make sense of such issues as prediction and control of misfortune

  • Everybody's War

    E-bok, 2021, Engelska, ISBN 9780197514665

    The Syrian crisis is one of the most serious humanitarian disasters in recent history. Yet the widely reported numbers--more than 6 million displaced, including 5 million

  • The Devil is Disorder

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    inbunden, 2019, Engelska, ISBN 9781789204872

    What role might the Devil have in health and illness? The Devil is Disorder explores constructions of the body, health, illness and wider misfortune in a Trinidadian village where

  • Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity

    E-bok, 2003, Engelska, ISBN 9780511162213

    This volume brings together a number of the foremost scholars - anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and historians - studying schizophrenia, its subjective dimensions,