Published March, 2021
By John Lever and Johan Fischer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores the emergence and expansion of global kosher and halal markets with a particular focus on the UK and Denmark. -- .

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Published February, 2021
By Martin Yuille and Bill Ollier
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Britain is sick with diabetes, depression and more besides. As a consequence, society faces systemic risks. This book is a challenge to all citizens, employers, institutions to face up to the changes that society needs. A plan of action is outlined for a 'Health Society' based on prevention of these conditions so as to extend our healthy lives. -- .

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Published January, 2021
By Axel C. Huntelmann and Oliver Falk
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Linking calculative practices and medicine, this book suggests a broader understanding of accounting. With a longue duree perspective the book investigates how calculative practices have affected medical knowing and how these practices changed over time in various countries of the Western world. -- .

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Published January, 2021
By Anne Kerr, Tineke Broer, Choon Key Chekar, Emily Ross, Julia Swallow and Sarah Cunningham-Burley
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Bringing the experiences of patients, carers and practitioners to the fore, this book explores how individual and collective futures are crafted through their work and care. The authors chart the different kinds of care and work involved in efforts to personalise cancer medicine, as well as the ways in which benefits and opportunities are unevenly realised and distributed. -- .

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Published December, 2020
By Clement Masakure
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Covering the colonial and post-colonial periods, African nurses and everyday work puts at the centre of historical enquiry the experiences of African nurses who laboured day and night in Zimbabwe's hospitals, healing the sick and nursing the infirm. -- .

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Published December, 2020
By Adam Hedgecoe
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An ethnographic exploration of research ethics committees in the UK, which highlights the central role of trust in biomedical regulatory decision making. -- .

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Published December, 2020
By Caroline Rusterholz
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Published October, 2020
By Laurent Pordie, Christoph Gradmann, Jean-Paul Gaudilliere, Claire Beaudevin and Anne M. Lovell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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What does global health stem from, when is it born and how does it relate to the contemporary world order? In this book, historians and anthropologists tackle these questions by exploring the transnational circulation of drugs, bugs, therapies, biomedical technologies and people in the context of the "neo-liberal turn" in development practices. -- .

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Published September, 2020
By Claire L. Jones
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This volume provides a significant new commercial perspective on contraception in modern Britain. It is the first book-length study to examine contraceptives as commodities and to demonstrate the significance of the contraceptive industry in shaping sexual knowledge alongside the medical profession, the birth control movement, and the state before the emergence of the contraceptive pill. -- .

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Published August, 2020
By Michael Keith and Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is a collection of essays exploring different aspects of health and wellbeing in cities today. With contributions on Brazil, China, South Africa and the United Kingdom, the volume covers a range of fields including mental health, migration, mobility, sanitation, gendered violence and structural racism from a multidisciplinary perspective. -- .

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