Also known as medical anthropology, the studiy of the ways in which culture and society are organized around or influenced by issues of health, health care and related issues.
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The Harmony of Illusions
Allan Young
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices
Adriana Petryna
When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects
Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl
Viral Loads: Anthropologies of urgency in the time of COVID-19 (Embodying Inequalities: Perspectives from Medical Anthropology)
Lenore Manderson
Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America
Margaret M. Lock
The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood
Didier Fassin
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, Updated with a new preface
Paul Farmer
Body, Meaning, Healing (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion)
Thomas J. Csordas
Global Health in Times of Violence
Barbara Rylko-Bauer
Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India
David Arnold
A History of Global Health: Interventions Into the Lives of Other Peoples
Randall M. Packard
Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory
Paul Antze
Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death
When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health
João Biehl
When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa
Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health
Salmaan Keshavjee
AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care)
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