Forthcoming Health & Medical Anthropology Books

Forthcoming Books

1. The Politics of Bioethics

   By Alan Petersen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   Recent rapid advances in the biosciences have led to considerable debate about the social, ethical, and legal implications of research and its applications. The mapping of the human genome, advances in cloning techniques, the harvesting of embryonic stem cells for research, increasing use of...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia

   Critical Perspectives

   Edited by Assa Doron, Alex Broom

   Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

   Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia brings together top international scholars from a range of social science disciplines to critically explore the interplay of local cultural and religious practices in the delivery and experiences of health in South Asia. This groundbreaking text provides...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Development and Public Health in the Himalaya

   By Ian Harper

   Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

   This book charts important social and political transitions in Nepal through the lens of medicine. It engages with a range of issues - mission health care institutions, tuberculosis as a sight of ethnographic inquiry and medical intervention, the pharmaceuticalization of mental health and public...

   To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Breast Cancer Gene Research and Medical Practices

   Transnational Perspectives in the Time of BRCA

   Edited by Sahra Gibbon, GALEN JOSEPH, Eirini Kampriani, Jessica Mozersky, Andrea zur Nieden, Sonja Palfner

   Series: Genetics and Society

   To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
5. Intimate Economies of Development

   Health, Sexuality and Mobility in Asia

   By Chris Lyttleton

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration

   Alongside structural and material interventions, emotional engagements are central to processes of social change and the making of selves for those caught up in development's slipstream. This book elaborates this proposition by showing that culture, sexuality and health are inevitably and...

   To Be Published February 27th 2014 by Routledge
6. Disclosure and Identity in Health and Illness

   Edited by Mark Davis, Lenore Manderson

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness

   Disclosure is a frequently used, but rarely interrogated concept in health and social welfare. Abuse, disability, sexuality and health status can be ‘disclosed’ to peers and professionals, and on some occasions, disclosure is a requirement and not a choice. This innovative collection examines the...

   To Be Published March 14th 2014 by Routledge