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  • Introducing Health Anthropology

    A Discipline in Action

    by Merrill Singer, Hans A. Baer, Debbi Long, Alex Pavlotski ...
    With a new title that reflects the broad scope and primary concerns of the field, Introducing Health Anthropology: A Discipline in Action, Fourth Edition, provides students with a first look at the dynamic discipline of medical and health anthropology.The narrative is guided by four unifying themes. First, health anthropologists are heavily involved in the process of helping to better understand ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Medical Anthropology and the World System

    Critical Perspectives

    by Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer, Ida Susser ...
    Now in its third edition, this textbook serves to frame understandings of health, health-related behavior, and health care in light of social and health inequality as well as structural violence. It also examines how the exercise of power in the health arena and in society overall impacts human health and well-being.Medical Anthropology and the World System: Critical Perspectives, Third Edition ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Critical Medical Anthropology

    by Merrill Singer, Hans Baer ...
    Series series Critical Approaches in the Health Social Sciences Series
    The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction and overview to the critical perspective as it has evolved in medical anthropology over the last ten years. Standing as an opposition approach to conventional medical anthropology, critical medical anthropology has emphasized the importance of political and economy forces, including the exercise of power, in shaping health, disease, illness ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Rich and Poor Countries

    Consequence of International Economic Disorder

    by Javed Ansari, Hans Singer ...
    This 4th edition has been revised to take account of the onset of world recession and the fall in commodity prices that have brought increasing poverty to some of the world's poorest countries. ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • African American Religion

    Varieties of Protest and Accommodation

    by Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer ...
    Now in an updated second edition, African American Religion remains an invaluable overview of the great diversity of religious groups within the modern African American community. This plethora of forms reflects a tension that has characterized African American religion since its beginnings—a tension between accommodation to and protest against white society’s domination.Viewing African American ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Killer Commodities

    Public Health and the Corporate Production of Harm

    by Roberto Abadie, Arachu Castro, Ann M. Cheney, Alexa S. Dietrich, Pamela I. Erickson, Martine Hackett, Jeff Howard, Martha Livingston, Terence Love, Brian McKenna, Michael Oldani, Joan Paluzzi, Michael Westerhaus, Edward J. Woodhouse ...
    Killer Commodities enters the increasingly heated debate regarding consumer culture with a critical examination of the relationship between corporate production of goods for profit and for public health. This collection analyzes the nature and public health impact of a wide range of dangerous commercial products from around the world, and it addresses the question of how policies should be changed ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • The Anthropology of Climate Change

    An Integrated Critical Perspective

    by Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    In addressing the urgent questions raised by climate change, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of climate change, guided by a critical political ecological framework. It examines the emergence and slow maturation of the anthropology of climate change, reviews the historic foundations for this work in the archaeology of climate change, and presents three alternative ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Building the Critical Anthropology of Climate Change

    Towards a Socio-Ecological Revolution

    by Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Anthropology
    This book applies a critical perspective to anthropogenic climate change and the global socio-ecological crisis.The book focuses on the critical anthropology of climate change by opening up a dialogue with the two main contending perspectives in the field, namely the cultural ecological and the cultural interpretive perspectives. Guided by these, the authors take a firm stance on the types of ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health

    Emerging Crises and Systemic Solutions

    by Hans Baer, Merrill Singer ...
    Series series Advances in Critical Medical Anthropology
    In this groundbreaking, global analysis of the relationship between climate change and human health, Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyze the diversity of significant and sometimes devastating health implications of global warming. Using a range of theoretical tools from anthropology, medicine, and environmental sciences, they present ecosyndemics as a new paradigm for ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The War Machine and Global Health

    by Abigail E. Adams, Hans A. Baer, Avram Bornstein, Patrick F. Clarkin, Scott Harding, Elaine A. Hills, G Derrick Hodge, Rohit Karki, Brandon A. Kohrt, Kathryn Libal, Judith Pettigrew, Adrienne Pine, Wietse A. Tol, David Vine, Dahlia S. Wasfi ...
    In the contemporary world, war rivals infectious disease as a global cause of morbidity and mortality. Since the end of World War II, there have been at least 160 wars around the world with as many as 25 million (and probably many more) people killed, most of them civilians. Directly or indirectly, war touches the lives of most people on the planet, often with lasting and costly impact. Framed by ... Read more

    $168.99 CAD

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  • The Environment in Anthropology, Second Edition

    A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living

    Edited by Nora Haenn, Allison Harnish, Richard Wilk ...
    Presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of viewThe Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of view. From the classics to the most current scholarship, this text connects the theory and practice in environment and anthropology, providing readers with a strong intellectual foundation as well ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Global Environmental Politics

    Problems, Policy and Practice

    by Hayley Stevenson ...
    Concern about humanity's impact on the planet has never been greater, but what are the drivers of environmental change? This wide-ranging introductory textbook outlines the competing explanations of why environmental problems occur and examines the different political approaches taken to address them. Adopting a case study approach, Hayley Stevenson enables students to gain a detailed ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD