Published October, 2009
By Andrea Pieroni, Ina Vandebroek and Ina Vandebr
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The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effective health care, but they are also creating dramatic changes in traditional knowledge...

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Published September, 2009
By Chris McCourt and Christine McCourt
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All cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be described as a purely physiological or even psychological event. This volume draws together work from a range of anthropologists and midwives who have found anthropological approaches useful in their work.

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Published August, 2009
By Marcia C. Inhorn and Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli
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Following the routinization of assisted reproduction in the industrialized world, technologies such as in vitro fertilization, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and DNA-based paternity testing have traveled globally and are now being offered to couples in numerous non-Western countries.

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Published April, 2009
By Morgan Clarke
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Assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization have provoked global controversy and ethical debate. This book provides a groundbreaking investigation into those debates in the Islamic Middle East, simultaneously documenting changing ideas of kinship and the evolving role of religious authority in the region...

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Published January, 2009
By Alison Shaw
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Drawing on fieldwork with British Pakistani clients of a UK genetics service, this book explores the personal and social implications of a 'genetic diagnosis'. Through case material and comparative discussion, the book identifies practical ethical dilemmas raised by new genetic knowledge...

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Published December, 2008
By Susie Kilshaw
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From September 1990 to June 1991, the UK deployed 53,462 military personnel in the Gulf War. After the end of the conflict anecdotal reports of various disorders affecting troops who fought in the Gulf began to surface. This mysterious illness was given the name Gulf War SyndromeA" (GWS).

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Published December, 2008
By Marcia C. Inhorn
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Reproductive disruptions, such as infertility, pregnancy loss, adoption, and childhood disability, are among the most distressing experiences in people's lives. Based on research by leading medical anthropologists from around the world, this book examines such issues as local practices detrimental to safe pregnancy and birth...

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Published November, 2008
By Catherine Panter-Brick, Agustin Fuentes and Alan H. Goodman
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Research on health involves evaluating the disparities that are systematically associated with the experience of risk, including genetic and physiological variation, environmental exposure to poor nutrition and disease, and social marginalization. This volume provides a unique perspective...

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Published June, 2008
By Marcia C. Inhorn, Nicoloa Migliorino and Nicola Migliorino
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Since their mass-resettlement to the Levant in the wake of the First World War, the Armenian communities of Lebanon and Syria appear to have successfully maintained a distinct identity. This book shows that, in Lebanon the state has facilitated development of an extensive and effective system of Armenian ethno-cultural preservation.

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Published May, 2008
By Jo Thobeka Wreford
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