Books in the Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology series

Based on ethnographic research gathered at the psychiatric hospital in the Netherlands, this volume brings a 21st-century voice to the lives of those with serious psychological disorders, focusing on the manner in which psychiatric patients experience their subjective worlds.

Is Western medical technology necessarily a good thing, or can it be dangerous? This book investigates its impact on midwives, healers and mothers giving birth in India today.

This book introduces a provocative new branch of social theory: the hypothesis that immunity and disease are in part socially constituted. It suggests that immune systems function not only as material entities but also as social symbols.

This book introduces a provocative new branch of social theory: the hypothesis that immunity and disease are in part socially constituted. It suggests that immune systems function not only as material entities but also as social symbols.

Is Western medical technology necessarily a good thing, or can it be dangerous? This book investigates its impact on midwives, healers and mothers giving birth in India today.