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  • - Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness
     
    496,-

    Explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings.

  • - Pregnancy in Japan and Israel
    av Tsipy Ivry
    479 - 1 538,-

    Presents an exploration of pregnancy in two different cultures - Japan and Israel - both of which medicalize pregnancy. This title focuses on 'low-risk' or 'normal' pregnancies, using cultural comparison to explore the complex relations among ethnic ideas about procreation, medical models of pregnancy care, and local modes of maternal agency.

  • - Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility
    av Annette Leibing
    472,-

    Explores the historical, psychological, and philosophical implications of dementia. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this book employs a cross-cultural perspective and focuses on questions of age, mind, voice, self, loss, temporality, memory, and affect.

  • - Night-Mares, Nocebos and the Mind-Body Connection
    av Shelley R. Adler
    526,-

  • - Gender, HIV, and Global Health in Bolivia
    av Carina Heckert
    491 - 1 647,-

    The HIV epidemic in Bolivia has received little attention on a global scale in light of the country's low HIV prevalence rate. However, by profiling the largest city in this land-locked Latin American country, Carina Heckert shows how global health-funded HIV care programs at times clash with local realities, which can have catastrophic effects for people living with HIV.

  • - Civil Society, HIV and AIDS Care in Northern Mozambique
    av Joel Christian Reed
    455,-

    AIDS activists are often romanticized as extremely noble and selfless. However, the relationships among HIV support group members highlighted in Landscapes of Activism are hardly utopian or ideal. The product of in-depth ethnography and focused anthropological inquiry, this is the first book on AIDS activists in Mozambique.

  • - Civil Society, HIV and AIDS Care in Northern Mozambique
    av Joel Christian Reed
    1 647,-

    AIDS activists are often romanticized as extremely noble and selfless. However, the relationships among HIV support group members highlighted in Landscapes of Activism are hardly utopian or ideal. The product of in-depth ethnography and focused anthropological inquiry, this is the first book on AIDS activists in Mozambique.

  • - Birthing Injuries and the Quest for Continence in Niger
    av Alison W. Heller
    613 - 1 538,-

  • - Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa
    av Jessica Hardin
    455 - 1 647,-

    Explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness in ways that shed light on health disparities and social suffering in Samoa. Examining how Pentecostal Christianity provides tools to manage issues around health and sickness, Jessica Hardin argues for understanding the synergies between how Christianity and biomedicine practice chronicity.

  • - Madness and Modernity in Yucatan, Mexico
    av Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster
    442 - 1 074,-

    Presents an intimate portrait of a public inpatient psychiatric facility in the Southeastern state of Yucatan, Mexico. Psychiatric Encounters considers the large- and small-scale obstacles to quality care encountered by doctors and patients alike as they struggle to live and act like human beings under inhumane conditions.

  • - Everyday Worlds of Anorexia
    av Megan Warin
    431 - 1 538,-

    Presents an alternative approach to anorexia, long considered the epitome of a Western obsession with individualism, beauty, self-control, and autonomy. Through detailed ethnographic investigations, this book looks at the heart of what it means to live with anorexia on a daily basis.

  • - Cultural and Biocultural Perspectives
    av Alexandra A. Brewis
    443,-

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