Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
Wandering the Wards: An Ethnography of Hospital Care and its Consequences for People Living with Dementia
1st Edition
By Katie Featherstone, Andy Northcott
May 30, 2022
Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary hospital. It reveals the institutional and ward cultures that inform the organisation and delivery of everyday care for one of the largest populations within them: people living with ...
Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa: An Ethnography of (In)vulnerability
1st Edition
By Hans Reihling
December 13, 2021
Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa explores how different masculinities modulate substance use, interpersonal violence, suicidality, and AIDS as well as recovery cross-culturally.With a focus on three male protagonists living in very distinct urban areas of Cape Town, this ...
Locating Zika: Social Change and Governance in an Age of Mosquito Pandemics
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin Bardosh
August 02, 2021
The emergence of Zika virus in 2015 challenged conventional ideas of mosquito-borne diseases, tested the resilience of health systems and embedded itself within local sociocultural worlds, with major implications for environmental, sexual, reproductive and paediatric health. This book explores this...
Haemophilia in Aotearoa New Zealand: More Than A Bleeding Nuisance
1st Edition
By Julie Park, Kathryn Scott, Deon York, Michael Carnahan
September 30, 2020
Haemophilia in Aotearoa New Zealand provides a richly detailed analysis of the experience of the bleeding disorder of haemophilia based on longterm ethnographic research. The chapters consider experiences of diagnosis; how parents, children, and adults care and integrate medical routines into ...
Medical Materialities: Toward a Material Culture of Medical Anthropology
1st Edition
Edited
By Aaron Parkhurst, Timothy Carroll
September 30, 2020
Medical Materialities investigates possible points of cross-fertilisation between medical anthropology and material culture studies, and considers the successes and limitations of both sub-disciplines as they attempt to understand places, practices, methods, and cultures of healing. The editors ...
Depression in Kerala: Ayurveda and Mental Health Care in 21st Century India
1st Edition
By Claudia Lang
August 14, 2020
This book examines depression as a widely diagnosed and treated common mental disorder in India and offers a significant ethnographic study of the application of a traditional Indian medical system (Ayurveda) to the very modern problem of depression. Based on over a year of fieldwork, it ...
Diagnosis Narratives and the Healing Ritual in Western Medicine
1st Edition
By James Meza
June 30, 2020
The dominance of "illness narratives" in narrative healing studies has tended to mean that the focus centers around the healing of the individual. Meza proposes that this emphasis is misplaced and the true focus of cultural healing should lie in managing the disruption of disease and death (...
The Anthropology of Epidemics
1st Edition
Edited
By Ann H. Kelly, Frédéric Keck, Christos Lynteris
June 30, 2020
Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and events which encompass and exercise a transformational impact on social life ...