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Found 4 from your keywords: subject="Medical anthropology"
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Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health: From Policy Spaces…
Wallace, Lauren J. MacDonald, Margaret EStoreng, Katerini T

This open access edited book brings together new research on the mechanisms by which maternal and reproductive health policies are formed and implemented in diverse locales around the world, from global policy spaces to sites of practice. The authors – both internationally respected anthropologists and new voices – demonstrate the value of ethnography and the utility of reproduction as a l…

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ISBN/ISSN
9783030845148
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XV, 225p; ill
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362.1 WAL a
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Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa : Social and…
Vaughan, MeganAdjaye-Gbewonyo, KafuiMika, Marissa

Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa offers new and critical perspectives on the causes and consequences of recent epidemiological changes in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly on the increasing incidence of so-called ‘non-communicable’ and chronic conditions. Historians, social anthropologists, public health experts and social epidemiologists present important ins…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781787357044
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xiii, 350p. ill;
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Call Number
614.096 EPI M
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Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean: : Encounters with Alterity in Bir…
Grotti, VanessaBrightman, Marc

This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usage of Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries between social scales an…

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ISBN/ISSN
9783030565855
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xii, 132 p.
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304.8 MIG V
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Care in healthcare : reflections on theory and practice
Krause, FranziskaBoldt, Joachim

This book examines the concept of care and care practices in healthcare from the interdisciplinary perspectives of continental philosophy, care ethics, the social sciences, and anthropology. Areas addressed include dementia care, midwifery, diabetes care, psychiatry, and reproductive medicine. Special attention is paid to ambivalences and tensions within both the concept of care and care practi…

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ISBN/ISSN
9783319612911
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xi, 298p. : ill.
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610.1 CAR c