New Horizons in Medical Anthropology is a festschrift in honor of Charles Leslie whose influentia...

Interdisciplinary collection of essays on the influence and development of new medical technologies.

'New Horizons in Medical Anthropology' is a cutting edge volume in honor of Charles Leslie, a hig...

In a series of accessible case studies, contributors here show that women worldwide react pragmat...

Volume of accessible essays exploring women's varied responses to medical technology.

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

'Bringing together an anthropology of predictive medicine with a social study of science, and dis...

Following centuries of debate about 'nature and nurture' the discovery of DNA established the ide...

These original essays, which combine theoretical argument with empirical observation, constitute ...

'A powerful intervention into one of the most important debates of our time. Meticulous in her me...

Following centuries of debate about 'nature and nurture' the discovery of DNA established the ide...

A theoretically sophisticated and cross-disciplinary reader in the anthropology of the body.

A theoretically sophisticated and cross-disciplinary reader in the anthropology of the body.

In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors Lock ...

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The Schools of Painting in Italy; 1

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowled...