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Emily Mendenhall
Invisible Illness

"An incisive study that illuminates the myriad complexities of chronic illness."-- Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)"Movingly spotlights the struggles of chronically ill patients."-- Pub…

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Christine Sargent
Making Down Syndrome

Making Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan draws on ethnographic research conducted primarily in Jordan's capital city of Amman to explore how the label and identity of Down synd…

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Christine Sargent
Making Down Syndrome

Making Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan draws on ethnographic research conducted primarily in Jordan's capital city of Amman to explore how the label and identity of Down synd…

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Lily N Shapiro
Connective Tissue

An ethnography of factory accidents and their attendant reconstructive plastic surgeries in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, Connective Tissue explores notions of risk, work and labor practices, and the way meanin…

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Beth Linker
Slouch

The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America---from eugenics and posture pageants to today's promoters of "paleo posture"In 1995, a scandal erupt…

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Andrew C Willford
Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic

Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic is a richly detailed ethnographic study of clinical care at NIMHANS, India's leading mental health institution, offering rich observations of patient-ph…

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Cutter Wood
Earthly Materials

Bill Bryson's The Body meets Mary Roach's Gulp (with a dash of What's Your Poo Telling You? )in this rollicking and delightfully educational tour of our bodily emissions?from mucus to sweat to poop?reveal…

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Rachel Douglas-Jones
Committee Worlds

Anthropology of Policy

Medical research is a global endeavor; a complex network of international drugs trials and data collection in the pursuit of novel treatments. And the Asia-Pacific region is considered an ideal "mark…

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Marcia C. Inhorn
Motherhood on Ice

Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice

Answers the question: Why are women freezing their eggs? Why are women freezing their eggs in record numbers? Motherhood on Ice explores this question by drawing on the stories of more than 150 women who …

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Lynnette Arnold, Jennifer R Guzmán, Emily Avera, Anna I Corwin
Language and Health in Action

Health and wellbeing are profoundly shaped by communication processes. Language and Health in Action explores these interconnections by bringing together cutting-edge global scholarship from linguistic an…

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Lynnette Arnold, Jennifer R Guzmán, Emily Avera, Anna I Corwin
Language and Health in Action

Health and wellbeing are profoundly shaped by communication processes. Language and Health in Action explores these interconnections by bringing together cutting-edge global scholarship from linguistic an…

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Judith Schühle
Traversing Transnational Biomedical Landscapes

In the age of globalization, the transnational dimension of sciences like medicine seems to be given. However, the agents connecting different parts of this transnational biomedical landscape have yet to …

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The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of the Body

Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology

Attention to the body is an exciting emerging dimension of anthropological research. A collection of diverse conversations contributed by a global team of scholars, this Handbook is a state-of-the-field s…

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