Health & Medical Anthropology Books

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1. Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific: Histories of Responses to Non-Communicable and Communicable Diseases

   Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Kerrie L. MacPherson

   This book analyses the development of a leading global health problem and policy responses to it in the context of a demographically, economically and politically very significant region of the world with a view to a better understanding of the double disease burden and the...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-57543-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China: Imagined immunity through racialized disease

   By Johanna Hood

   Approximately 90% of urban HIV/AIDS education in China occurs indirectly through non-specialist media reports. Many of these reports use images of extreme suffering and poverty to communicate an understanding of who gets HIV, why and how. This book explores an important aspect of how HIV/AIDS is...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-47198-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. The Politics of Bioethics

   By Alan Petersen

   Recent rapid advances in the biosciences have led to considerable debate about the social, ethical, and legal implications of research and its applications. The mapping of the human genome, advances in cloning techniques, the harvesting of embryonic stem cells for research, increasing use of...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-99006-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience: The Quest for an Adequate Life

   Edited by Everett Zhang, Arthur Kleinman, Weiming Tu

   China has experienced a tremendous turn-around over the past three decades from the ethos of sacrificing life to the emergent appeal for valuing life. This book takes an interdisciplinary look at China’s these decades of transformation through the defining theme of governance of life. With an...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-59719-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia: Critical Perspectives

   Edited by Assa Doron, Alex Broom

   Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia brings together top international scholars from a range of social science disciplines to critically explore the interplay of local cultural and religious practices in the delivery and experiences of health in South Asia. This groundbreaking text provides...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-55609-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Handbook of Cultural Sociology

   Edited by John R. Hall, Laura Grindstaff, Ming-cheng Lo

   The Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary scholarship in sociology and related disciplines focused on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With sixty-five essays written by scholars from around the world, the book...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-47445-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities: Comparative Inquiries in Science, History, and Ethics

   Edited by Jing Bao Nie, Nanyan Guo, Mark Selden, Arthur Kleinman

   Prior to and during the Second World War, the Japanese Army established programs of biological warfare throughout China and elsewhere. In these “factories of death,” including the now-infamous Unit 731, Japanese doctors and scientists conducted large numbers of vivisections and experiments on...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-58377-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Biomedicine as Culture: Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life

   Edited by Regula Valérie Burri, Joseph Dumit

   This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary biomedicine as a cultural practice. It brings together leading scholars from cultural anthropology, sociology, history, and science studies to conduct a critical dialogue on the culture(s) of biomedical practice, discussing its...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-88317-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Archaeology of Human Bones, 2nd Edition

   By Simon Mays

   The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the scientific analysis of human skeletal remains from archaeological sites. This completely revised edition reflects the latest developments in scientific techniques for studying human skeletons and the latest applications of those...

   April 2010 | 978-0-415-48091-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Gender and Sexuality in India: Selling Sex in Chennai

    By Salla Sariola

    India has one of the highest numbers of HIV carriers in the world. HIV has remained associated with sex work, and large sums of money provided to fund public health interventions have come from global institutions such as UNAIDS, the World Bank and USAID. In the midst of these processes, however,...

    December 2009 | 978-0-415-54915-8 | Hardback (Routledge)