Books in the Medical Anthropology: Health, Inequality, and Social Justice series

Presents an exploration of pregnancy in two different cultures - Japan and Israel - both of which medicalize pregnancy. This title focuses on 'low-risk' or 'normal' pregnancies, using cultural comparison to explore the complex relations among ethnic ideas about procreation, medical models of pregnancy care, and local modes of maternal agency.

The HIV epidemic in Bolivia has received little attention on a global scale in light of the country's low HIV prevalence rate. However, by profiling the largest city in this land-locked Latin American country, Carina Heckert shows how global health-funded HIV care programs at times clash with local realities, which can have catastrophic effects for people living with HIV.

AIDS activists are often romanticized as extremely noble and selfless. However, the relationships among HIV support group members highlighted in Landscapes of Activism are hardly utopian or ideal. The product of in-depth ethnography and focused anthropological inquiry, this is the first book on AIDS activists in Mozambique.

AIDS activists are often romanticized as extremely noble and selfless. However, the relationships among HIV support group members highlighted in Landscapes of Activism are hardly utopian or ideal. The product of in-depth ethnography and focused anthropological inquiry, this is the first book on AIDS activists in Mozambique.

Explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness in ways that shed light on health disparities and social suffering in Samoa. Examining how Pentecostal Christianity provides tools to manage issues around health and sickness, Jessica Hardin argues for understanding the synergies between how Christianity and biomedicine practice chronicity.

Presents an alternative approach to anorexia, long considered the epitome of a Western obsession with individualism, beauty, self-control, and autonomy. Through detailed ethnographic investigations, this book looks at the heart of what it means to live with anorexia on a daily basis.