Published February, 2017
By Janet Chrzan and John Brett
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This volume provides in-depth analysis and comprehensive review of methods necessary to design, plan, implement and analyze public health programming related to food and nutrition using anthropological best practices.

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Published January, 2017
By Janet Chrzan and John Brett
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Biocultural and archaeological research on food, past and present, often relies on very specific, precise, methods for data collection and analysis. These are presented here in a broad-based review.

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Published January, 2017
By Jonathan Taee
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In Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. The Patient Multiple delves into the context of patients' daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding paths to health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography.

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Published October, 2016
By Zsuzsa Berend
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Zsuzsa Berend presents a methodologically innovative ethnography of the surrogacy support website in the United States. The Online World of Surrogacy documents collective meaning-making practices that unfold online, and explores their practical, emotional, and moral implications.

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Published October, 2016
By Beata Switek
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Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers' relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues and their employers.

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Published September, 2016
By Warwick Anderson, Alexandra Widmer and Veronika Lipphardt
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In this volume, contributors follow physicians, demographers, nutrition experts, physical anthropologists, colonial agents, military officials and missionaries in colonies all over the globe, with specific attention to how they tried to sort out pressing health problems of populations they perceived to be diverse.

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Published August, 2016
By Trudie Gerrits
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This book places the patient-centred practices of a single clinic in a national context where ARTs are highly regulated ('Dutch IVF') and examines how this form of medicine co-shapes the experiences, views and decisions of the women and men using these technologies.

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Published August, 2016
By Aditya Bharadwaj
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The book examines the causes and consequences of infertility and the rapid proliferation of new reproductive technologies in 'modern India'. The book emerges from an ethnographic inquiry that explains how assisted conception, as a means of bypassing infertility, is being accommodated, understood and used in India today.

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Published May, 2016
By Sian Pooley and Kaveri Qureshi
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The chapters situate the cross-cutting power of the life-course in specific global historical contexts, so as to examine how reproductive cultures are influenced by demographic change, new technologies, migration and diaspora. Studies shed light on of the diverse ways in which nature, biology, kinship and gender have been understood.

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Published March, 2016
By Calum MacKellar and Christopher Bechtel
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Inter-disciplinary in approach. Blends research from embryology, genetics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, and history. Constructs a thorough picture of the procedures emerging from today's reproductive developments. Includes a rigorous ethical argumentation concerning the possible advantages and risks related to the new eugenics.

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