Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society – serie
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Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States
The View from Prince George's County, Maryland
Inbunden, 2016
1348 kr
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Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States: The View from Prince George’s County, Maryland contextualizes the narratives of international migrants arriving to Prince George’s County, Maryland from 1968 to 2009. The life course trajectories of seventy individuals and their …
Intimate Partner Violence and Advocate Response
Redefining Love in Western Belize
Inbunden, 2016
1208 kr
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Intimate Partner Violence and Advocate Response: Redefining Love in Western Belize offers new insight into the cross-cultural analysis of gender-based intimate partner violence by blending activist anthropology with in-depth ethnographic research to evaluate and help ameliorate the crisis in …
Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States
The View from Prince George's County, Maryland
Häftad, 2018
615 kr
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Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States: The View from Prince George’s County, Maryland contextualizes the narratives of international migrants arriving to Prince George’s County, Maryland from 1968 to 2009. The life course trajectories of seventy individuals and their …
Romantic Love in America
Cultural Models of Gay, Straight, and Polyamorous Relationships
Häftad, 2021
501 kr
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Romantic Love in America: Cultural Models of Gay, Straight, and Polyamorous Relationships introduces the reader to the love and sex lives of two polyamorous,five gay, and eight straight individuals. Coupled with rich interviewmaterial, Victor C. de Munck provides a guided tour through the …
Cultural Dimensions of Well-Being
Therapy Animals as Healers
Av Clementine K. Fujimura, Simone Nommensen
Häftad, 2019
530 kr
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This book presents a cultural history of human-animal relations in Germany, Japan, Russia and the United States, with a focus on the uses of animals for comfort, healing and in developing a sense of well-being. Fujimura and Nommensen discuss the contexts in which the culture of wellbeing has …
Love in the Time of Ethnography
Essays on Connection as a Focus and Basis for Research
Inbunden, 2017
1350 kr
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Love in the Time of Ethnography explores love – variously defined – as an important facet of human life and a worthy focus of study. The authors look at love in association with an Alevi and Sunni couple in Turkey, organizers of Mexican American and immigrant youth movements, Christian missionaries …
Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept
Understanding Connections among Culture, Community, and Health
Häftad, 2022
558 kr
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Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept highlights the ways that culture and community influence concepts of wellness, the experience of well-being, and health outcomes. This book includes both theoretical conceptualizations and practice-based explorations from a multidisciplinary group of …
Black Women and Breast Cancer
A Cultural Theology
Inbunden, 2018
1208 kr
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Christian theology at its core is a story about someone being in trouble. In response to this trouble, the triune God intervenes. God identifies with those in trouble, walking with them through the experience. Yet, the God of Christian theology goes a step further. God prevails over trouble. God is …
Competing Orders of Medical Care in Ethiopia
From Traditional Healers to Pharmaceutical Companies
Inbunden, 2019
1138 kr
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Based on Pino Schirripa’s fieldwork, Competing Orders of Medical Care in Ethiopia traces the development of pharmaceutical products and medical remedies in the health sector. Schirripa analyzes the production and distribution of medications and examines how local politics, financial resources, …
Being Ethical among Vezo People
Fisheries, Livelihoods, and Conservation in Madagascar
Inbunden, 2020
1208 kr
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Being Ethical among Vezo People analyzes environmental change in reef ecosystems of southwest Madagascar and the impacts of global fishery markets on Vezo people’s well-being. The ethnography describes fishers’ changing perceptions of the physical environment in the context of livelihood and ritual …
Three Fruits
Nepali Ayurvedic Doctors on Health, Nature, and Social Change
Inbunden, 2019
1279 kr
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Mary M. Cameron first encountered an Ayurvedic medical practice in remote, western Nepal in 1978. In Three Fruits, Cameron traces Ayurvedic medical practices from those village healers to the professionally trained doctors in the Kathmandu Valley. An intimate portrayal of Ayurvedic doctors in Nepal …
Clinical Anthropology 2.0
Improving Medical Education and Patient Experience
Av Jason W. Wilson, Roberta D. Baer
Inbunden, 2022
1172 kr
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Clinical Anthropology 2.0 presents a new approach to applied medical anthropology that engages with clinical spaces, healthcare systems, care delivery and patient experience, public health, as well as the education and training of physicians. In this book, Jason W. Wilson and Roberta D. Baer …
Clinical Anthropology 2.0
Improving Medical Education and Patient Experience
Av Jason W. Wilson, Roberta D. Baer
Häftad, 2023
473 kr
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Clinical Anthropology 2.0 presents a new approach to applied medical anthropology that engages with clinical spaces, healthcare systems, care delivery and patient experience, public health, as well as the education and training of physicians. In this book, Jason W. Wilson and Roberta D. Baer …
Living with HIV in Post-Crisis Times
Beyond the Endgame
Inbunden, 2021
1278 kr
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Over the past decade, effective prevention and treatment policies have resulted in global health organizations claiming that the end of the HIV/AIDS crisis is near and that HIV/AIDS is now a chronic but manageable disease. These proclamations have been accompanied by stagnant or decreasing public …
Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients
An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania
Inbunden, 2023
1066 kr
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In The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania, Marius Wamsiedel examines the social categorization of patients and its consequences at two emergency departments in Romania. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this work argues that moral …
Drug Use, Recovery, and Maternal Instinct Bias
A Biocultural and Social-Ecological Approach
Inbunden, 2024
1137 kr
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Drug Use, Recovery, and Maternal Instinct Bias: A Biocultural and Social-Ecological Approach draws upon theoretical perspectives in anthropology and public health to provide insight into the barriers women experience when seeking treatment for substance use disorders. In both theoretical …
Entanglements of Rare Diseases in the Baltic Sea Region
Av Malgorzata Rajtar, Katarzyna E. Król
Inbunden, 2023
1137 kr
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Although rare diseases have captured public attention in recent decades, the lived experiences of people affected by these conditions remain on the periphery of medical anthropological inquiry. Focusing on Poland, Finland, and Sweden, and foregrounding notions of “rare” or “chronic” disease as an …
Demographic Desires
Medicine, Media and Emergency Contraception in India
Inbunden, 2026
1207 kr
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Exploring the intertwined histories of hormonal contraception and population anxiety, in Demographic Desires: Medicine, Media, and Emergency Contraception in India, Appleton shows how historic discourses and practices of ‘family planning’ remerge as desires of the Indian state and Indian women. In …
Agency and Bodily Autonomy in Systems of Care
Inbunden, 2024
1137 kr
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Agency and Bodily Autonomy in Systems of Care examines the ways in which humans and their bodies become enmeshed in various systems of care. Seven case studies demonstrate the ways in which people lose, negotiate, establish, or impose bodily autonomy in diverse contexts. Diverse methods and …
Tourism and Maternal Health
Customs, Beliefs, and Everyday Practices
Inbunden, 2019
1207 kr
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In Tourism and Maternal Health, Allison R. Cantor examines prenatal health in Monteverde, Costa Rica, in the context of a tourism-driven nutrition transition. In today’s fast-paced, globally connected society, even rural regions like the central highlands of Costa Rica can be affected by the rise …
Care Work and Medical Travel
Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move
Inbunden, 2021
1207 kr
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This edited volume explores the interconnection between care work, travel, and healthcare, emphasizing the emotional dimensions of seeking care away from home. It brings together contributions from disciplines such as anthropology, nursing, primary care, sociology and geography and covers …
Boundaries of Care
Community Health Workers in the United States
Inbunden, 2022
1171 kr
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In Boundaries of Care, Ryan I. Logan details the lived experience of community health workers (CHWs) – a present yet often invisible facet of the healthcare workforce. These workers participate in nonclinical services to enhance the health and well-being of their communities outside the walls of …
Boundaries of Care
Community Health Workers in the United States
Häftad, 2023
472 kr
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In Boundaries of Care, Ryan I. Logan details the lived experience of community health workers (CHWs) – a present yet often invisible facet of the healthcare workforce. These workers participate in nonclinical services to enhance the health and well-being of their communities outside the walls of …
Everyday Food Practices
Commercialisation and Consumption in the Periphery of the Global North
Inbunden, 2021
1207 kr
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In Everyday Food Practices, Tarunna Sebastian explores the teaching and learning dimensions of people’s food choices and practices as they are played out in their everyday lives and local community. Using multi-sited critical ethnographic methodology, Sebastian followed people on their journeys …
Love and its Entanglements among the Enxet of Paraguay
Social and Kinship Relations within a Market Economy
Av Stephen Kidd
Inbunden, 2021
1348 kr
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In Love and its Entanglements among the Enxet of Paraguay: Social and Kinship Relations within a Market Economy, Stephen Kidd examines the affective discourse and value systems of the indigenous Enxet people. Kidd’s analysis focuses on how the Enxet navigate the market economy in Paraguay and the …
No Perfect Birth
Trauma and Obstetric Care in the Rural United States
Inbunden, 2021
1243 kr
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In No Perfect Birth: Trauma and Obstetric Care in the Rural United States, Kristin Haltinner examines the institutional and ideological forces that cause harm to women in childbirth in the rural United States. Interweaving the poignant and tragic stories of mothers with existing research on …
No Perfect Birth
Trauma and Obstetric Care in the Rural United States
Häftad, 2023
472 kr
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In No Perfect Birth: Trauma and Obstetric Care in the Rural United States, Kristin Haltinner examines the institutional and ideological forces that cause harm to women in childbirth in the rural United States. Interweaving the poignant and tragic stories of mothers with existing research on …
Diversity and Cultural Competence in the Health Sector
Ebola-Affected Countries in West Africa
Av Mohamed Kanu, Elizabeth Williams m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1171 kr
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Diversity and Cultural Competence in the Health Sector: Ebola-Affected Countries in West Africa examines the 2014–2016 Ebola crisis in three West African countries. The authors argue that this public health disaster was exacerbated by the lack of cultural competency in emergency response efforts. …
Demographic Desires
Medicine, Media and Emergency Contraception in India
E-bok, 2026
1325 kr
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Exploring the intertwined histories of hormonal contraception and population anxiety, in Demographic Desires: Medicine, Media, and Emergency Contraception in India, Appleton shows how historic discourses and practices of 'family planning' remerge as desires of the Indian state and Indian women. In …
Demographic Desires
Medicine, Media and Emergency Contraception in India
Häftad, 2027
413 kr
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Exploring the intertwined histories of hormonal contraception and population anxiety, in Demographic Desires: Medicine, Media, and Emergency Contraception in India, Appleton shows how historic discourses and practices of ‘family planning’ remerge as desires of the Indian state and Indian women. In …
