Medical Anthropology
Please note that this is not a complete list. We aim to keep this list updated with books published within the last two years that have not yet been reviewed by the Forum. If you would like to review a title not listed here, or would like to add a title, please get in touch. List updated April 2024.
Available Titles:
Bartoszko, Aleksandra. 2021. Treating Heroin Addiction in Norway: The Pharmaceutical Other. Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge.
Bell, Kirsten. 2022. Silent but Deadly: The Underlying Cultural Patterns of Everyday Behaviour. London: Caw Press.
Benezra, Amber. 2023. Gut Anthro: An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Bloom, Allison. 2023. Violence Never Heals: The Lifelong Effects of Intimate Partner Violence for Immigrant Women. Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice. New York: New York University Press.
Buchbinder, Mara. 2021. Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America. California Series in Public Anthropology 50. Oakland, California: University of California Press.
Butnaru, Denisa. 2024. Exoskeletal Devices and the Body: Deviant Bodies, Extended Bodies. Routledge Advances in Sociology. New York: Routledge.
Cerulli, Anthony Michael. 2021. The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India. Oakland, California: University of California Press.
Donaldson, Brianne, and Ana Bajželj. 2021. Insistent Life: Principles for Bioethics in the Jain Tradition. Oakland, California: University of California Press.
El-Shaarawi, Nadia, and Stéphanie Larchanché, eds. 2022. Migration and Health: Challenging the Borders of Belonging, Care, and Policy. Studies of the Biosocial Society, volume 10. New York: Berghahn Books.
Fullwiley, Duana. 2024. Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science.
Haas, Bridget M. 2023. Suspended Lives: Navigating Everyday Violence in the US Asylum System. Critical Refugee Studies 4. Oakland, California: University of California Press.
Ḥadīdī, Hājir. 2022. Zar: Spirit Possession, Music, and Healing Rituals in Egypt. Paperback edition. Cairo; New York: The American University in Cairo Press.
Hall-Clifford, Rachel, Waleska López Canu, and Arthur Kleinman. 2024. Underbelly: Childhood Diarrhea and the Hidden Realities of Global Health. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Howell, Britteny M., and Ryan P. Harrod, eds. 2023. Anthropological Perspectives on Aging. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Hsu, Elisabeth. 2022. Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers. Epistemologies of Healing, volume 20. New York: Berghahn Books.
Hughes Rinker, Cortney. 2021. Actively Dying: The Creation of Muslim Identities through End-of-Life Care in the United States. Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.
ʻAlī, ʻInāyat, and Robbie Davis-Floyd, eds. 2022. Negotiating the Pandemic: Cultural, National, and Individual Constructions of COVID-19. First Edition. Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology. New York: Routledge.
Inhorn, Marcia C. 2023. Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs. Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice. New York: New York University Press.
Jackson, Aaron J. 2021. Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities. California Series in Public Anthropology. Oakland, California: University of California Press.
Jarrín, Alvaro, and Chiara Pussetti, eds. 2021. Remaking the Human: Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement. Politics of Repair, volume 2. New York: Berghahn Books.
Kalofonos, Ippolytos. 2021. All I Eat Is Medicine: Going Hungry in Mozambique’s AIDS Economy. California Series in Public Anthropology 52. Oakland, California: University of California Press.
KRUPAR, SHILOH. 2023. HEALTH COLONIALISM: Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers. S.l.: UNIV OF MINNESOTA PRESS.
Marcia C. Inhorn. 2023. Motherhood on Ice. NYU Press. https://nyupress.org/9781479813049/motherhood-on-ice.
Mazzeo, Agata. 2021. Dust inside: Fighting and Living with Asbestos-Related Disasters in Brazil. New York: Berghahn Books.
McGonigle, Ian. 2021. Genomic Citizenship: The Molecularization of Identity in the Contemporary Middle East. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Meinert, Lotte, and Jens Seeberg, eds. 2022. Configuring Contagion: Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics. First edition. Epistemologies of Healing 19. New York: Berghahn Books.
Micale, Mark S., and Hans Pols, eds. 2022. Traumatic Pasts in Asia: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present. New York: Berghahn.
Middleton, Townsend. 2024. Quinine’s Remains: Empire’s Medicine and the Life Thereafter.
Mohr, Sara, and Shane M. Thompson, eds. 2023. Power and Identity at the Margins of the Ancient Near East. Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado.
Myers, Kit Williams. 2025. The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States.
Myers, Neely Laurenzo. 2024. Breaking Points: Youth Mental Health Crises and How We All Can Help.
Nahar, Papreen. 2022. Childlessness in Bangladesh: Intersectionality, Suffering and Resilience. Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge.
Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. 2022. Viral Frictions: Global Health and the Persistence of HIV Stigma in Kenya. Medical Anthropology. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Pop, Cristina Alexandra. 2022. The Cancer within: Reproduction, Cultural Transformation, and Health Care in Romania. Medical Anthropology. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Sangaramoorthy, Thurka. 2023. Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America. Studies in Social Medicine. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.
Saxton, Dvera I. 2021. The Devil’s Fruit: Farmworkers, Health and Environmental Justice. Medical Anthropology. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Shohet, Merav. 2021. Silence and Sacrifice: Family Stories of Care and the Limits of Love in Vietnam. Oakland, California: University of California Press.
Singh, Holly Donahue. 2022. Infertility in a Crowded Country: Hiding Reproduction in India. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
Smith-Oka, Vania. 2021. Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals. Medical Anthropology: Health, Inequality, and Social Justice. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Stojanowski, Christopher M., and Andrew C. Seidel. 2023. Forensic Anthropology: An Introductory Lab Manual. 1st ed. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
Suh, Siri. 2021. Dying to Count: Post-Abortion Care and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Senegal. Medical Anthropology. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Svendsen, Mette N. 2022. Near Human: Border Zones of Species, Life, and Belonging. Medical Anthropology. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Syvertsen, Jennifer Leigh. 2022. Dangerous Love: Sex Work, Drug Use, and the Pursuit of Intimacy in Tijuana, Mexico. Oakland, California: University of California Press.
Tremayne, Soraya. 2022. Inconceivable Iran: To Reproduce or Not to Reproduce? Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality : Social and Cultural Perspectives, volume 50.
Trentini, Daria. 2021. At Ansha’s: Life in the Spirit Mosque of a Healer in Mozambique. Medical Anthropology. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Valdez, Natali. 2022. Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era. Critical Environments : Nature, Science and Politics 9. Oakland, California: University of California Press.
Versfeld, Anna. 2023. Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health in South Africa. Medical Anthropology. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Vijayakumar, Gowri. 2021. At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis. Globalization in Everyday Life. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
Vivian, Lauraine Margaret Helen. 2021. amaXhosa Circumcision: Stories of Manhood and Mental Health. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge.
Yates-Doerr, Emily. 2024. Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm.