This book of essays by medical anthropologists and other health social scientists examines the full measure of the disastrous global health effects of war in the contemporary world.
... Blackwell Companions to Anthropology offers a series of comprehensive syntheses of the traditional subdisciplines ... Middle East, edited by Soraya Altorki 28. A Companion to Heritage Studies, edited by William Logan, Máiréad Nic ...
Comprehending Drug Use, the first full-length critical overview of the use of ethnographic methods in drug research, synthesizes more than one hundred years of study on the human encounter with psychotropic drugs.
The text illustrates how eco-crisis interaction—the synergistic interface of two or more environmental events or pollutants—can multiply to produce harmful health effects that are greater than their additive impact.
This work seeks to cut through popular misunderstanding and conventional ideas about the spread and impact of AIDS by employing a political economic perspective in the analysis of the epidemic in diverse settings.
Drugs and Development: The Global Impact on Sustainable Growth and Human Rights