Spring 2012 - University of California Press

anthropology / health
Alexander H. Harcourt
Human Biogeography
This innovative, wide-ranging synthesis
of anthropology and biogeography tells how
and why our species came to be distributed
around the world.
Alexander H. Harcourt is Professor Emeritus in
the Anthropology Department at the University of
California, Davis.
FEBRUARY
320 pages, 6 x 9", 56 line illustrations, 3 maps,
6 tables
Anthropology/Geography/Archaeology
World
cloth 978-0-520-27211-8 $60.00tx/£41.95
Edited by Timothy A. Kohler
and Mark D. Varien
Emergence and Collapse
of Early Villages
Models of Central Mesa Verde
Archaeology
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this
book examines how climate change, population
size, interpersonal conflict, resource
depression, and changing social organization
contribute to explaining dramatic shifts in
the emergence and collapse of early villages
in the Southwest United States.
Timothy A. Kohler is Regents Professor in the
Department of Anthropology at Washington
State University. Mark D. Varien is Research and
Education Chair at the Crow Canyon Archaeological
Center.
Origins of Human Behavior and Culture, 6
APRIL
350 pages, 7 x 10", 32 color illustrations,
12 b/w photographs, 51 line illustrations, 1 map,
47 tables
Anthropology/Native American History
World
cloth 978-0-520-27014-5 $65.00tx/£44.95
Dominique A. Tobbell
Pills, Power,
and Policy
The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold
War America and Its Consequences
Pills, Power, and Policy offers a lucid history
of how the American drug industry
and key sectors of the medical profession
came to be allies against pharmaceutical
reform.
Dominique A. Tobbell is Assistant Professor in
the Program in the History of Medicine at the
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
California/Milbank Books on Health and
the Public, 23
AVAILABLE
306 pages, 6 x 9", 1 table
Health Care Policy/History of Medicine
World
cloth 978-0-520-27113-5 $65.00tx/£44.95
paper 978-0-520-27114-2 $26.95tx/£18.95
John Hoberman
Black and Blue
The Origins and Consequences
of Medical Racism
Black and Blue is the first systematic
description of how American doctors think
about racial differences and how this kind
of thinking affects the treatment of their
black patients.
John Hoberman is the author of Darwin’s Athletes:
How Sport Has Damaged Black America and
Preserved the Myth of Race.
APRIL
288 pages, 6 x 9”
Medical Anthroplogy
World
cloth 978-0-520-24890-8 $65.00tx/£44.95
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