Books written by Ida Susser

Rethinking America: The Imperial Homeland in the 21st Century

Jane Collins, “Gender, Contracts and Wage Work: Agricultural Restructuring in Brazil's São Francisco Valley,” Development and Change 24 (1993): 53–82; Collins, “Transnational Labor Process and Gender Relations: Women in Fruit and ...
Medical Anthropology and the World System

Can Public Policies Limit the Spread of HIV among IV Drug Users ? " Journal of Drug Issues 19 : 113–28 . Cook , Rebecca . 1999. “ Gender , Health and Human Rights . ” In Health and Human Rights , ed . Jonathan Mann , Sofia Gruskin ...
Medical Anthropology and the World System: A Critical Perspective

New York : Harper and Row . Field , Peter . 1962. A New Cross - Cultural Study of ... Fineberg , H. 1988. The Social Dimensions of AIDS . Scientific American , October . Pp . 128-134 . Firestone , H. 1957. Cats , Kicks , and Color .
AIDS, Sex, and Culture: Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa

At the University of Namibia, Scholastika Iipinge, a wonderful friend and colleague, worked with Richard Lee and I to ... Sam Byrd, Risa Cromer, Kaja Tretjak, Elan Abrell, and Lynne Desilva-Johnson energetically helped complete the ...
Cultural Diversity in the United States: A Critical Reader

Comprised of over 20 newly commissioned chapters and other pieces, and sponsored by the American Anthropological Association, this volume offers a wide range of perspectives from anthropologists as a means of understanding how the ...
Wounded Cities: Destruction and Reconstruction in a Globalized World

Drawing on in-depth case studies from across the globe, this book answers these intriguing questions through its rigorous consideration of changing global and national contexts, social movements, and corrosive urban events.
Medical Anthropology and the World System: Critical Perspectives, 3rd Edition: Critical Perspectives

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.
Medical Anthropology and the World System: Critical Perspectives

This intriguing volume offers a comparative examination of early medicine and health care in regions as varied as ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, China, the Islamic world, and medieval Europe. Book jacket.
Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood, Updated Edition

Now updated with a new introduction to address the changes and events of the thirty years since the book's original publication, its lessons continue to demonstrate the impact of political and economic changes on everyday lives.
Rethinking America: The Imperial Homeland in the 21st Century

Rethinking. America. Jeff. Maskovsky. and. Ida. Susser. DOI: 10.4324/9781315632384-1 We are living and working in the context of prolonged wars, which, for the first time since the 1970s, were justified and legitimated by a vocal ...
Medical Anthropology and the World System: A Critical Perspective

Medical anthropology is one of the youngest and most dynamic of the various subdisciplines within anthropology. Critical medical anthropology has evolved into one of the major perspectives through which faculty...
The Tumultuous Politics of Scale: Unsettled States, Migrants, Movements in Flux

Contemporary politics, this book contends, depend upon the turbulent struggles and strategies around scale. Confl icts over scale can be seen as opaque class struggles.
Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood, Updated Edition

Now updated with a new introduction to address the changes and events of the thirty years since the book's original publication, its lessons still resonate in the impact of political and economic changes on everyday lives.
Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood

Based on a three-year study conducted in Brooklyn's Greenpoint/Williamsburg section, this book is an in-depth, detailed description of life in a multi-ethnic working class neighborhood during New York City's fiscal crisis of 1975-1978.