Arthur Kleinman, M.D., examines how the prevalence and nature of disorders vary in different cult...

In this moving and thought-provoking volume, Arthur Kleinman tells the unsettling stories of a ha...

In the past dozen years, the field of international mental health has been transformed from a sub...

What is the relationship between social science research and public health policy, particularly i...

'Social suffering' takes in the human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease, torture--...

A collection of original essays that address the ways in which violence manifests itself on socie...

'This book has lined up a remarkable team of authors to try to answer the question: what can we l...

In the past dozen years, the field of international mental health has been transformed from a sub...

Ethnographic case studies focused on the dynamics of the burgeoning international pharmaceutical ...

'Western medicine treats sick patients like broken machines -- figure out what is physically wron...

Emmanuel Akyeampong is Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvar...

'This book has lined up a remarkable team of authors to try to answer the question: what can we l...

'L'uomo cammina sempre tra precipizi e che gli piaccia o no, il suo compito più autentico è quell...

'This is the work of an energetic scholar whose capacity to read, digest, and reflect on ideas in...

Chronic pain challenges the central tenet of biomedicine: that objective knowledge of the human b...

'Kleinman, a psychiatrist, trained in anthropology, reports on his studies of health care in Taiw...

Based on a meeting in November 2000, this book brings together researchers from a wide range of d...

Anthropological study of the globalization of pharmaceuticals and its effects on local cultures, ...

Emmanuel Akyeampong is Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvar...

The moving memoir of a doctor who became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central to...

A moving memoir and an extraordinary love story that shows how an expert physician became a famil...

'Underbelly articulates the pathways of global health funding and development policies by explori...

What is the meaning of human suffering for society? How has this meaning changed from the past to...