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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 www.ucpress.edu | 47
HEALTH Sienna R. Craig Healing Elements Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine Healing Elements explores how Tibetan medicine circulates through diverse settings in Nepal, China, and beyond as commercial goods and gifts, and as target therapies and panacea for biophysical and psychosocial ills. Sienna R. Craig is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. JULY 287 pages, 6 x 9”, 10 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 2 tables Medical Anthroplogy/Asian Studies World cloth 978-0-520-27323-8 $60.00tx/£41.95 paper 978-0-520-27324-5 $34.95tx/£24.95 Elizabeth Roberts God’s Laboratory Assisted Reproduction in the Andes In this innovative ethnography of in vitro fertilization in Ecuador, Elizabeth Roberts shows how having children through biotechnological intervention is not only tolerated, it is embraced by the population, despite widespread poverty and official condemnation by the Catholic Church. This clearly written account offers a grounded introduction to debates in science studies and medical anthropology. Elizabeth Roberts is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. MAY 328 pages, 6 x 9”, 4 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration, 1 map Medical Anthroplogy/Latin American Studies World cloth 978-0-520-27082-4 $70.00tx/£48.95 paper 978-0-520-27083-1 $29.95tx/£19.95 Clara Han Life in Debt Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile Life in Debt is an engaging look at neoliberalism and its aftermath in Chile. Attending to intimate scenes and neighborhood life, Han reveals the force of relations in the making of selves in a world in which unstable work patterns, illness, and pervasive economic indebtedness are aspects of everyday life. Clara Han is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. APRIL 265 pages, 6 x 9”, 8 b/w photographs Medical Anthroplogy/Latin American Studies World cloth 978-0-520-27209-5 $65.00tx/£44.95 paper 978-0-520-27210-1 $26.95tx/£18.95 48 | University of California Press
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