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Foreign Language Books bought by the Project

All these books are available at library of the Vietnam Commission for Population, Family & children, 12 Ngo Tat To Str. Ha Noi.

	N0. 1 Abortion in the Developing World Axel I Mundigo and Cynthia Indriso Comprising twenty-two case studies from developing countries around the globe, this important volume presents the views of women and providers on induced abortion, often in contexts where the practice is illegal or unsafe and thus dangerous to women's health and survival. The unique feature of the collection is that it focuses on the first hand experiences of women who, when confronted with an unwanted pregnancy, terminated it by recourse to abortion. Using primarily qualitative data (while not ignoring the statistical), the contributors explore the motivations, the decision processes and the socio-economic circumstances which cause women to opt for abortion. They also discuss situations where the practice is legal (such as in China, Cuba and Turkey) and discuss various issues including method failure, motivation, poor use of contraception and quality of care. Including the viewpoints of married and unmarried women, of adolescents and of service providers, the overall objective of this collection is to explore a fundamental question: why do women opt for abortion to regulate fertility, even in contexts where family planning is widely available? To answer this question, the volume has been organised around the following major themes: the relationship between abortion and contraception; the quality of pre-and post-abortion care; adolescent sexuality, sex education and abortion; and attitudes towards abortion. The last part of the book draws lessons from the case studies including both methodological and policy aspects. Unique in its extraordinary coverage of countries and issues and in terms of its approach, this book will be of its approach, this book will be of interest to policy makers and to those in the fields of health, social work, demography, gender studies, development studies, sociology, anthropology and epidemiology. Copyright World Health Organization, 1999 ISBN 1-85649-649-X, 499 pages, 6^1/2” x 9”
	No. 2 AIDS and Accusation Paul Farmer "Fermer's sensitive exploration of the lives and deaths of the people at Do Kay give his study a distinctly human face and an emotional edge that moves the study and the reader beyond the cynical gaze of post-modernism and political economy. The book is at the same time fiercely personal and coldly objective. The result is both moving and illuminating". _Randall M. Packard, Science "Farmer's analysis... carefully postulates a trajectory of AIDS in the United States, Haiti, and the Caribbean, revealing the intimate economic and political links that allowed for the syndrome to appear simultaneously in the countries of the Western hemisphere... Farmer renders a richly layered and nuanced ethnographic portrait". _Guitele Nicoleau, Harvard Educational Review "[Farmer] explores Haitians' experiences and understanding of the disease with moving profiles of the first three AIDS sufferers in Do Kay, the village where he conducted field work from 1983 to 1990". _ Chronicle of Higher Education "This study traces the introduction of AIDS in Haiti to, most probably, U.S.gays who had sex with Haitian men during visits to the country, but notes the persistent misunderstandings about the syndrome's Haitian incidence". _Washington Post Book World "One of the most impressive works in the new wave of ethnographies in medical anthropology. A major contribution!" _Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University University of California Press First Paperback Printing 1993 ISBN 0-520-08343-1, 340 pages, 6” x 9”
	No. 3 Anthropological Demography Toward a New Synthesis Edited by David I. Kertzer and Tom Fricke Although in its early years anthropology often used demographic research and showed interest in demographic issues, anthropology and demography have more recently grown to distrust each other’s guiding assumptions and methods. Demographers have stressed universal causal models and standardized survey methods, while sociocultural anthropologists have increasingly focused on the uniqueness of different peoples and their cultures. Showing that the two disciplines have much to offer each other, this book bridges the demography/anthropology divide. The editors begin the volume with an in-depth historical account of the relations between the fields. Eminent contributors from both disciplines then examine the major issues and controversies in anthropological demography, including the demographic implications of differing family and kinship systems; The influence of new developments in cultural, gender, and identity theory on population study; The limits of quantitative approaches in demographic study; and demographers’ views of the limits of anthropological methods. The University of Chicago Press, 1997. ISBN 0-226-43196-7, 294 pages; 6” x 9”
	No. 4 Anthropological Theory In Introductory History R. Jon McGee and Richard L. Warms A comprehensive and accessible survey of the history of theory in anthropology, this anthropology of classic readings contains in-depth commentary in introductions and notes. The commentary provides background information that clarifies each article’s central concepts and its relationship to the social and historical context in which it was written. No other anthropology offers such a broad range of works important in the history of anthropological theory – from nineteenth – century evolutionism to postmodernism in the 1990s. Innovative sections on the foundations of the sociological thought, sociobiology, and the feminist critique of anthropology are included. This second edition includes new articles by Eleanor Leacock, Phillippe Bourgois, Ann Stoler, and Roy D’Andrade. * * * * * * “The D’Andrade article is excellent. It is a very fitting concluding article for the volume – a balanced criticism of postmodernism that gives students some feel for the divisions within anthropology and anthropology department today. I’m very enthusiastic about the book. Anyone who reads it would have a very good start in anthropological theory”. - Mary Jo Schneider, University of Arkansas “It is the best collection that covers both historic and contemporary theories. The introductions and annotations are very objective and will be most helpful for students. Strengths and weakness of all major approaches are very well represented”. - John H.Bodley, Washington State University. Mayfield Publishing Company, 2000 ISBN 0-7674-1166-8, 599 pages, 7” x 9”
	No. 5 Anthropology and International Health Asian Case Studies Mark Nichter and Mimi Nichter In this recently revised and updated edition of Anthropology and International Health, anthropologists Mark and Mimi Nichter examine some of the most significant health problem facing South and Southeast Asia today and provide a critical assessment of the ways there problem are approached by those engaged in primary health care. The case studies presented are rich in ethnographic details and consider how local perceptions of illness and understanding of technical fixes influence demand for and use of medications, contraceptives, immunizations and oral rehydration solution. Attention to the microeconomics of health care and the social relations of health care delivery invite reconsideration of international health initiatives such as rational drug use and primary health care teamwork. These informative essays demonstrate the relevance of anthropology research to international health and the application of anthropological theory in medical anthropology. Gordon and Breach Science Publishers SA, 1996 ISBN 2-88449-171-6, 455 pages, 6” x 9”
	No. 6 Anthropology in Public Health Bridging Differences in Culture and Society Robert A. Hahn Translating public health knowledge and technical capacity into public health action across cultural and social boundaries is often a challenge for those who participate in public health. The 15 case studies of this book illustrate anthropological concepts and methods that can help us understand and resolve diverse public health problems around the world. One case study shows how differences in concepts and terminology among patients, clinicians, and epidemiologists in a southwestern U.S county hinder the control of epidemics. Another case study examines reason that Mexican farmer don't use protective equipment when spraying pesticides and suggests ways to increase use. Another examines the cultural of international health agencies, demonstrates institutional values and practices that impede effective public heath practice, and suggest issues that must be addressed to enhance institutional organization and process. Anthropology in Public Health provides practical models and anthropological tools to improve the effectiveness of public health efforts around the world. About the Editor Robert A. Hahn, Ph.D., M.P.H., has served as an epidemiologist at the U.S. enters for Disease Control and prevention in Atlanta since 1986. He has conducted anthropological and public health research in Peru, Mexico, Brazil, the United States, Niger, and the Cameroon, and published studies on a variety of topics, including breast cancer and other chronic diseases, syphilis and AIDS, obstetrics and internal medicine in the U.S., perinatal ethics, racial and ethnic classification in public health, poverty and death, male-female differences in mortality, and the nocebo phenomenon. He is the author of Sickness and Healing; An Anthropological Perspective (Yale, 1995). Copyright 1999 by Oxford University Press, Inc. ISBN 0-19-511955-X, 384 pages, 6” x 9”
	No. 7 The Anthropology of Infectious Diease International Health Perspectives Marcia C. Inhorn and Peter J. Brown Anthropological contributions to the study of infectious disease and of actual infectious dis-ease eradication programs have rarely been collected in one volume. In this era of AIDS and the global resurgence of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, there is wide-spread interest and concern about the cultural, ecological and political factors directly relat-ed to the increased prevalence of infectious disease. The editors have assembled the growing scholarship in one book. Chapters explore the co-evolution of genes and cultural traits; the cultural construction of "disease" and how these models influence health-seeking behavior; cultural adaptive strategies to infectious disease problems; the ways in which ethnography sheds light on epidemiological patterns of infectious disease; the practical and ethical dilem-mas that anthropologists face by participating in infectious disease programs; and the politi-cal ecology of infectious disease problems. This groundbreaking material will be a vital resource for those working in or studying med-ical anthropology, physical anthropology, epidemiology and public health, medical ecology, international health, and infectious disease and medical parasitoloty. Gordon and Breach Publishers First published 1997 Second printing 2000 ISBN 90-5699-556-1, 495 pages, 6” x 9”
	No. 8 Applied Health Research Anthropology of Health and Health Care Anita Hardon, Pimpawun Boonmongkon, Pieter Streefland, Michael Lim Tan, Thavitong hongvivatana, Sjaak Van Der Geest, Anneloes Van Staa, Corlien Varkevisser, Cecilia Acuin, Mushtaque Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya Luechai Sringeryuang, Els Van Dongen, Trudie Gerrits There is increasing recognition that socio-economic and cultural factors are prime determinants of health and health care. What factors contribute to the acceptance of community health financing or a vaccination program? What are the needs of the growing group of elderly people or psychatric patients? What social and cultural factors should be taken into account to operationalize all ambitious plans to improve reproductive health care? These are only some of the questions health professionals and health planners are confronted with. Anthropological research can be a tremendous support to health programmes, by giving insights in the perspective of recipients ad providers of health programmes and health are, and also by providing managers and implementors of these programmes with mechanisms and strategies that could lead to a reorientation of health care programmes and policies towards the actual needs of the target group. The need for training in anthropological of health and health care has been expressed by social scientists involved in multi-disciplinary health research projects, and public health staff at different levels, who are involved in providing health education and primary health care and who - in implementing the health programmes - are confronted with difficulties related to the socio-cultural context in which they work. It is for this reason that the International Course in Anthropology of Health and Health Care has been developed. This course has been designed for research officers of public health institutes, coordinators of community health care programmes, project staff, responsible for the implementation of various health programmes, public health professionals, social science lecturers at universities, and junior social scientists, who intend to specialize in Anthropology of Health and Health Care. The course takes a multi-disciplinary approach and focuses on a number of important problem areas and issues, such as vaccination, reproductive health and AIDS, equity and community health financing, self-care and the use distribution of pharmaceuticals. The manual in its earlier editions has been used since years for teaching in the field of applied medical anthropology and public health in academic institutions worldwide. Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers. Third, revised edition, 2001 ISBN 90-5589-191-6, 387 pages, 6” x 9”
	No. 9 Coming of Age In South and Southeast Asia Youth, Courtship and sexuality Edited by Lenore Manderson and Pranee Liamputtong Some books are executed as swiftly as they are conceived, from the point of view of the editors if not the authors. Others are conceived no less in the spur of the moment - a good idea crystallized with quick thinking - but they drift along, sometimes riding the winds of optimism, at other times caught in a calm. This was such a book. Our correspondence dates back five years, when we were first caught by the possibilities of bringing together works that dealt with young people, courtship and sexuality. Our interest was fueled by the urgency of a continuing epidemic of HIV that pointed to the importance of understanding sex and sexuality among the young. Sadly, the public health impetus was prophetic. Today, HIV and AIDS are an even greater problem in Asia and elsewhere than at the time of the inception of this volume. But our interest was also epistemological, methodological and ethnographic. The population in which we were interested was an elusive one. How old is 'youth', how arbitrary are its boundaries? If adolescence is a cultural construction, how do we make sense of sexual development, social maturation, the emotions of early courtship, the rituals of romance in its diverse forms? How is 'coming of age' understood by young men and young women, and by their parents and guardians, in different social and economic formations? What clues do the romantic fictions of old ethnographies hold as we seek to make sense of a part of life that has long passed most authors? And in the time of AIDS, a time also for young people everywhere complicated by rapid social change, urbanization, increased formal education and globalization, how are the issues of sexual debut, sexual helath, courtship and marriage to be addressed? During the slow course when this book took shape, its contributing authors sometimes had not one child, but two-families were created, children grew up, people changed jobs, moved cities, migrated, and worked on other projects. The frustration of some authors at the sluggish progress of this volume was sometimes palpable, and we owe a great debt to all of them that they succumbed to our cajoling and stayed on board. We owe particular thanks also to Andrea Straub of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies for her keen interest and swift response to us, at a point at which we were almost stilled by lethargy, to Leena Hoskuldsson for her fune editing, and to Gerald Jackson for his extraordinarily swift and exact typesetting, patience and support. In Melbourne, we thak John Litaridis, Christina Hall and Keir Reeves for their technical assistance and, as they worked on the manuscripts, their enthusiasm for the work. While younger authors gave birth to children and other books, our own children moved into the ages of the young people whose lives are the substance of this book. As a result, the chapters have a particular salince, the ethnographies counterpoints of the evolving lives of those with whom we live. Our children provided us, largely unintentionally, with much understanding and insight. With love, we dedicate this book to Tobi and Kerith Manderson-Galvin, and Emma Inturatana and Zoe Sanipreeya Rice. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies 2002, ISBN 0-7007-1399-9, 307 pages, 6^” x 9”
	No. 10 Culture, Creation and Procreation Concepts of Kinship in South Asian Practice Monika Bock and Aparna Rao As reproduction is seen as central to kin ship and the biological link as the primary bond between parents and their offspring, Western perceptions of kin relations are primarily determined by ideas about "consanguinity", "genealogical relations" and "genetic connections". Advocates of cultural constructivism have taken issue with a concept that puts so much stress on heredity as being severely biased by western ideas of kinship. Ethnosociologists in particular developed alternative systems using indigenous categories. This symbolic approach has, however, been rejected by some scholars as plagued by the problems of the analytical separation of ideology from practice, of largely overlooking relations of domination and of ignoring the questions of shared knowledge and choice. This volume offers a corrective by discussing the constitution of kinship among different communities in South Asia and addressing the relationship between ideology and practice, cultural models, and individual strategies. First published in 2000 by Berghahn Books ISBN 1-57181-911-8, 382 pages, 6” x 9”
	No. 11 Curing and healing Medical anthropology in global perspective Andrew Stranthern, Pamela J. Stewart Throughout history and throughout the world today, problems of health, sickness, and medical treatment have been intimately interwoven with social, cultural, and political life generally. Medical anthropology deals with these problems from bicultural perspective, recognizing the deep connections between cultural patterns, historical change, and life processes. This book draws on a rich array of ethnographic cases from around the world to demonstrate the complexities of ideas and practices that surround the health of the human body, and how health is impacted by the belief and practices of community. The authors make particular use of new materials from their field areas among the Hagen and Duna people in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The book is intended as a textbook useable for both anthropology courses and courses for medical students. The topics covered include a survey of earlier works in medical anthropology, regimens of bodily treatment, sex and reproduction, medical pluralism, doctor-patient communication, epidemiology, ethnopsychiatry, illness and the emotion, and how diseases such as AIDS have altered the ways in which individuals see themselves and 'traditional' practices alter to accommodate new diseases. Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart are a husband and wife anthropological team who work in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea and the Lowlands of Scotland. Carolina Academic Press 1999 ISBN 0-89089-942-8, 224 pages, 6” x 9”
	No. 12 Daughters of Hariti Childbirth and Female Healers in South and Southeats Asia Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel Hariti is the ancient Indian goddess of childbirth and women healers, known at one time throughout South and Southeast Asia from India to Nepal and Bali. This book looks at her ' daughters ' today, female midwives and healers in many different cultures across the region. In some places they are skilled and respected professionals, elsewhere low - caste menials whose primary function is to deal with the ' pollution ' of birth. The Daughters of Hariti: Childbirth and female healers in South and Southeast Asia also traces the transformation of childbirth in these cultures under the impact of Western biomedical technology, national and international health policies and the wider factors of social and economic change. The authors look at the various situations of birthing mothers in these societies and the choices facing them and their families. They ask what can be done to improve the high rates of maternal and infant death and illnesses still associated with childbirth in most societies in this area. Is the technology necessarily a good thing? Even where it might be, can the delivery of biomedical technology be improved so that it is more accessible and relevant to the needs of birthing mothers? This fascinating volume combines scholarly analysis with human sensitivity to an area with a direct influence on the lives of hundreds of millions of Asian women. It is the first contemporary survey of childbirth in this region and it adds dramatically to our knowledge of this field. It will be of great use to postgraduate students as well as to professionals. Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel both tech in the School of Social Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia. Santi Rozario has researched on women development, health and Islam. Geoffrey Samuel has researched on Tibetan society, religion and music. First published 2002 by Routledge ISBN 0-415-27792-2, 306 pages, 6” x 9”
	No. 13 Death Without Weeping The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil Nancy Scheper-Hughes “[Scheper-Hughes] makes a case for ethnography as an art form [in this] compelling, if deeply disturbing, account of women in a Brazilian shantytown. Rarely have the impoverished and the powerless had so eloquent an advocate from the anthropological community,,,, Scheper-Hughes is gifted narrator, deeply immersed in the lives of Alto women.” University of California Press 1993 ISBN 0-520-07537-4, 615 pages, 6^” x 9”
	No. 14 Encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology Edited by Aland Barnard, Jonathan Spencer The Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology provides a unique guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline discussing human, social and cultural life in all its diversity and difference. Theory, ethnography and history are combined in over 200 substantial entries on topics as wide ranging as race and postmodernism, witchcraft and essentialism, magic and methodology. Authoritative entries have been commissioned from among the world's leading specialists. Alphabetically organized, the main entries contain clear, concise and provocative explanations of key anthropological themes and ideas, as well as surveys of the most important regional traditions of ethnographic research. Each entry contains cross-references and a bibliographic appendix, with details of the lives and works of over 200 important figures in the history of anthropology and a glossary with short explanations of over 500 terms and concepts. Areas covered include: · history of anthropology, national traditions of anthropological research, colonialism, orientalism and Occidentalism, theories of culture and societies. · kinship, gender and family, marriage, the body. · politics and economics, money and exchange, nationalism and the state, ethnicity. · ritual and religion, mythology, belief, cognition, rationality. · language and linguistics, poetics, literacy, aesthetics, film, museums · relations with other disciplines. Alan Barnard is Professor of the Anthropology of Southern Africa and Associate Dean (Visiting Undergraduates), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK. Jonathan Spencer is Professor and Director, Graduate School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK. This edition first published 2002 by Routledge Reprinted 2003 ISBN 0-415-28558-5, 659 pages, 6^1/2”x 9^1/2”
	No. 15 Endangered Relations Negotiating Sex and AIDS in Thailand Chris Lyttleton This book is about disease and culture. HIV and AIDS are having profound impacts on contemporary life in Thailand, raising complex issues with far reaching implications for Thai people and the boarder global context. AIDS has become an increasingly prominent symbol of modernity in Thailand, yet ways of dealing with AIDS and HIV draw on time-honoured understanding of fare and misfortune disease and contagion, gender and pollution. Endangered Relations provides a crucial analysis of how public health manoeuvres to control the threat of HIV infection mesh with local understanding of identity and sexuality setting in place a broad range of personal and social responses to the ongoing epidemic An illuminating study of the way in with Thai social relations and in particular Thai sexualities shape the history of AIDS in Thailand Endangered Relations offers a unique perspective on the complicated ways that disease is negotiated in cultural, political and human terms. " Endangered Relation s is a brilliant study of the social and cultural forces shaping the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Thailand Chris Lyttleton effectively integrates ethnographically grounded cultural analysis with detailed consideration of the social political and economic processes that have impacted upon the epidemic. The result is a groundbreaking book that will change the way we think about HIV and AIDS not only in Thailand, but in the world system more generally Richard Parker, Columbia University, USA " … An outstanding analysis of the manner in which local people have responded to the growing epidemic of HIV and AIDS. Traditional beliefs and patterns of bahaviour transformation in the national and local economy changed patens of rural to urban migration and the growth of a cash economy establish the backcloth ageist which to make sense of rural peoples enhanced vulnerability to the epidemic Endangered Relations offers a compelling account of life in the north east of Thailand today, and the ways in which local communities are responding to AIDS. Peter Aggleton University of Lon don, UK " … Compassionate, critical, original and of great practical value. It presents a rich lode of ethnographic data on village networks, domestic relations, sexual behaviour, views of the book as well as regional differences and historical changes. The discussion of differences between northern and northeaster Thailand is particularly illuminating. It is written a style that makes it readily accessible and the information it provides should be made available as soon as possible to those working with HIV and AIDS both in Thailand and elsewhere. Shirley Lindenbaum. City University of New York, USA " … One of the most thorough anthropological explorations and interpretations of responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Thailand at both the individual and collective levels ". Bencha Yoddumnern - Attig, Mahidol University, Thailand. Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000 ISBN 90-5702-421-7, 246 pages, 6” x 9”
	No. 16 Familiar Medicine Eveyday Health knowledge and Practice in Today’s Vietnam David Craig "This is the best Vietnam ethnography to appear in decades. Craig cap-tures the importance of "body talk' among Vietnamese, the constant swapping of health information, the pluralism of popular medical knowledge and practice, while simultaneously addressing the very real worldwide problem of antibiotic abuse. Along the way, we learn a great deal about gender, family, hierarchy, marketization, media, and political culture in Vietnam." David G. Marr, historianof twentieth-century Vietnam, Australian National University "On rare occasions, an academic book appears that is as elegant and engaging as a fine novel. Familiar Medicine weaves provocative theory with a compelling ethnographic account of health and healing in Vietnam. Beautifully written and convincingly argued. Craig pushes our understandings of globalization, material culture, and everyday life." Lenore Manderson, professor of women's health, University of Melbourne UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I PRESS Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822-1888 ISBN 0-8248-2474-1, 288 pages, 6” x 9”
	No. 17 Handbook of Medical Anthropology Contemporary Theory and Method Edited by Carolyn F. Saroent and Thomas M. Johnson This book documents the significant contribution of medical anthropologists during the past decade to the development of a comprehensive theory of therapeutic process that connects therapeutic, political, and spiritual power and to an exploration of mind-body interaction, tracing the mediation of moral and physiological domains of experience. Several authors analyze the social, cultural, and historical construction of biomedicine and argue that anthropological and dominant biomedical ways of knowing are ultimately irreconcilable; other propose valuable linkages between cultural analysis and biomedical inquiry. Numerous authors challenge reductionist models, offering alternatives to bridge the biological and social, such as the biopsychosocial model that grounds the study of disease in historical and political-economic context and that links behavior and biology or one that challenges the psychobiological universality of emotional life. Greenwood Press, 1996 ISBN 0-313-29658-8, 557 pages, 6” x 9”
	No.18 Health and wealth in Vietnam An analysis of household living standards Edited by Dominique Haughton, Jonathan Haughton, Sarah Bales, Truong Thi Kim Chuyen, Nguyen Nguyet Nga How do Vietnamese households live and work? This book answers many of the most important questions, including: who use contraceptives? Which children get the most health care? Who are the poor, and are they poor? Which families migrate? Why do so many rural workers change jobs? Where do households get credit? What drives rice production? The result of a unique collaboration between Vietnamese and international social scientists, the fourteen concise chapters paint a fascinating picture of household health and wealth. All are based on the Vietnamese Living Standards Survey, the most accurate and complete source of data available. The use of statistical technique in every chapter gives the book added coherence while providing depth and clarity to the analysis. A must for anyone with a serious interest in Vietnam, this highly readable book is also designed to serve as a reference work Institute of SouthEast Asian Studies, Singapore 1999 ISBN 981-230-032-5, 277 pages, 6” x 9”
	No. 19 Health Promotion at the Community Level Neil Bracht What is required to implement community_based programs successfully? How can you determine which communities are ready to work on health problems or social issues? What are the best methods for stimulating community action? Noted contributors from around the world provide information on community approaches to health promotion and disease prevention. As did the first edition, Health Promotion at the Community Level, Second Edition serves as a guide to the science and art of community health promotion. The last decade of research and development has considerably advanced the science of achieving and maintaining health. In this edition, contributing authors from aroud the world share their experiences and expertise about diverse health promotion programs, pointing out areas needing adjustment in community implementation, on both international and domestic levels. Health Promotion at the Community Level, Second Edition will be an invaluable guide to professionals in publec health, social work, communication, clinical/counseling psychology, and psychiatric nursing. Copyright 1999 by Sage Publications, Inc. ISBN 0-7619-1304-1, 275 pages, 7” x 10”
	No. 20 Infections and Inequalities The modern Plagues Paul Farmer "Infections and Inequalities does not mistake dispassionate for neutral. Its passages are unapologetically passionate-and so they should be-but well reasoned. Farmer melds the proximity of a caring physician with the reach of rigorous scientific analysis... His analysis sharpens our understanding of how we must tackle the roots of health inequity. Infections and nequalities deserves a place on the turn-of-the-millennium bookshelf". The Lancet "The strength of this book is the combination of the author's trenchant analysis, his un-doubted academic credentials and his fron-line experience as clinician and anthropolo-gist. When economists tell us that a human life is less valuable in a poor country than in a rich one, we must acknowledge that those of us in the rich world certainly behave as if this is so... It is recommended reading for all concerned with applying medical science to improve the lot of humanity". Michael Marmot, Nature Medicine "This book is a tour-de-force that reaches beyond traditional audiences and presents a strong argument for the significance of anthropology in confronting proverty and disease. In this personal, passionate, projessional autobiography, Farmer revisits and reargues his work on Haiti and health and, in the process, reviews many concepts such as struc-tural violence, cultural difference, and pragmatic solidarity, which he invests with insights into their development and use. Students will find the book inspiring and tremendously informative, and many will undoubtedly want to emulate the career described in it". Medical Anthropology Quarterly Paul farmer directs the program in Infectious Disease and Social Change at the Harvard Medical School and divides his clinical time between Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Clinique Bon Sauveur in central Haiti. He is the author of AIDS and Ac-cusation (California, 1992), which was awarded the Wellcome Medal, and The Uses of Haiti (1994), and editor of Women, Poverty and AIDS (1996), which won the Eileen Basker Prize. University of California Press 1999 ISBN 0-520-22913-4, 375 pages, 6” x 9”
	No. 21 International Public Health Disease, Programs, Systems and Policies Michael H. Merson, Robert E. Black, Anne J. Mills This text addresses public health problems and challenges currently facing low- and middle - income countries. With an emphasis on diseases, programs, health systems, and health policies, INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH reflects the scope and depth of challenges in global health promotion. INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH : - Provides in-depth and high-quality coverage of core issues, from communicable diseases to the design of effective health systems - Explores public health problems in low- and middle-income countries using examples from around the world. - Is edited by distinguished experts, with a premier group of international contributing authors who provide detailed analysis and discussions of important issues. Filled with case studies and examples, this text provides a contemporary view of the international public health situation by assessing needs, suggesting approaches for improvement of health programs and policies, and discussing future challenges for advancing health promotion and disease prevention in a global setting. Aspen Publisher, Inc. Gainthersburg, Maryland 2001 ISBN 0-8342-1228-5, 775 pages, 7” x 10^1/2”
	No. 22 Intimate Knowledge Women and their health in North - East Thailand Andrea Whittaker This highly original study provides a vivid picture of what it means to be a woman in rural Thailand. As a study on health it concentrates upon the intimacies of women's bodies while simultaneously exploring how experiences of health and illness are shaped by the wider context of the developing Thai state. Medical anthropologist ANDREA WHITTAKER addresses the broad forces affecting women's health today - gender relations in Thai society, migration and work, the effects of poverty and uneven development. She explains complex theoretical issues using rich ethnographic detail to discuss approaches to the body and embodiment, agency and resistance, the effects of development and modernity. Intimate Knowledge illustrates the tensions between what is seen as 'traditional' and 'modern' approaches and the ways in which these are understood to align poverty and underdevelopment with ethnic and cultural difference. All these issues are illustrated through chapters covering a wide range of women's health experiences: gynaecological problems, STDs/HIV, family planning and maternity, and the controversy of abortion within a Buddhist nation. Women's voices feature throughout the book, telling the intimacies of their lives and bringing to life the ramifications of broader social forces and policies in Thai society. ANDREA WHITTAKER is a medical anthropologist who has conducted extensive research on health and illness both in Thailand and Australia. In Thailand she conducted eighteen months ethnography in a remote rural village studying community understandings health and illness. Her current position is Research Fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University. Women in Asia Publication Series First published in 2000 ISBN 1-86508-216-3, 212 pages, 5^1/2” x 8^1/2”
	No. 23 Magic, Science and Health The Aims and Achievements of Medical Anthropolgy Robert Anderson It is the author's hope that this book will help to dimensions of the field by framing it as more open and receptive to diversity than is the case in other books on the subject. No other text attempts to incorporate as completely the comprehensive, wide-ranging interests of anthropology as an interdisciplinarity of four fields (cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, archeology, and linguistics). It is not wrong to define the field more narrowly, but it is incomplete. Further, no other book attempts so consistently to obliterate a false and pernicious preference for theoretical as opposed to applied anthropology. The theme here is that medical anthropology must be an applied field - it must address health concerns with a commitment to finding solutions - and by virtue of that very effort, it should continue to stand in the front lines of theoretical advancement. Finally, no other book identifies so clearly the need for medical anthropologists to be skilled in multidisciplinary research as they work closely with other health professionals, whether humanistic, scientific, or clinical. Copy right 1996 by Harcourt Brace & company ISBN 0-15-500828-8, 454 pages, 6^1/2” x 9”
	No. 24 Maternity and Reproductive Health in Asian Societies Pranee Liamputtong Rice and Lenore Manderson This collection examines enduring and topical question in sexual and reproductive health in a range of contemporary Asian cultures. Beliefs and practices surrounding conception, pregnancy, birth and confinement are studied in culturally specific context in Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Indonesia. Important and widely applicable health issues are also addressed, including the perception and management of HIV/AIDS, experiences of menopause and the interaction of cosmopolitan ('Western') medicine with traditional healthcare. About the editors Pranee Liamputtong Rice is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Mothers' and Children's Health, La Trobe University and Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Her wide publications in the field include the acclaimed cross-cultural study of childbirth, My Forty Days (1993) and Asian Mothers, Australian Birth (1994). Lenore Manderson is Professor of Tropical Health (Anthropology) at the Australian Centre for International and Tropical Health and Nutrition, the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Her research and writing span the disciplines of anthropology, history and public health and she is particularly interested in gender, women's health, the anthropology of infectious disease, and the social history of medicine. Recent publications include New Motherhood (with Mira Crouch, 1993) and Sickness and the State: Health and Illness in Colonial Malaya, 1870 - 1940 (1996). Harwood Academic Publishers 1996 ISBN 90-5702-021-1, 313 pages, 8^1/2” x 10”
	No. 25 Maternity Care in Developing Countries John B. Lawson, Kelsey A. Harrison and Staffan Bergstrom This book has been written for anyone who wishes to practice better obstetrics and to care for mothers in developing countries, with sometimes limited resources. The basic principles contained in standard textbooks of obstetrics are universally applicable. However, many clinical conditions that are common in Africa, Asia and the tropical parts of South America receive only brief mention in these books and the advanced pathology resulting from delay in seeking treatment is not covered. This book is therefore intended as a complement to the standard texts available, not as a substitute. The organization of maternity care is discussed, including the role and training of doctors and paramedical workers. Epidemiological considerations also receive due attention in the hope that readers will be stimulated to view their local problems in a world perspective. Throughout the book, the preventability of most of the serious clinical problems that besiege the doctor in low-income countries is stressed. Although disastrous complications such as rupture of the uterus, anaemic heart failure in pregnancy and vesicovaginal fistulae have to be treated when they occur, their elimination is a challenge, which is not neglected here. Most readers will be familiar with the textbook edited by J.B. Lawson and D.B. Stewart entitled Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Tropics and Developing Countries. Published in 1967, it met a great need and remained in print in the English Language Book Society paperback version until 1991. Before then, parts of it had become outdated, the Safe Motherhood Initiative had begun, and there was reawakened inspiration and impetus for better maternal health, which continues worldwide. These development called for a radical revision of Lawson and Stewart's masterpiece the result is this book. Published by the RCOG Press at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London ISBN 1-900364-39-5, 422 pages, 6” x 9”
	No. 26 New Reproductive Technologies, Women's Health and Autonomy *Freedom or Dependency?* Jyotsna Agnihotri Gupta Since the advent of the second feminist wave in the 1960s, women's control over their own fertility has been identified as being crucial to their emancipation. With the concomitant advances in reproductive technology, a whole range of possibilities has been thrown open to women to shape their lives and to make active choices for themselves. Doubts persist, however, about the long-term effects of these new technologies on women's empowerment and autonomy. This important study of the interface between control over fertility and women's emancipation, outlines the technological developments that have taken place in the field of human reproduction in the second half of the twentieth century. Jyotsna Agnihotri Gupta discusses them under four heads: (a) technologies to prevent conception and birth; (b) technologies to assist reproduction; (c) technologies for prenatal diagnosis; and (d) gene technologies. The author follows the debate on these technologies - not only their scientific/medical aspects but also the social, juridical, ethical, economic and health dimensions - at the international level, with particular reference to India and The Netherlands. Based on both theoretical and empirical evidence combined with an historical approach, the book situates the new reproductive technologies within the political, economic and social contexts reflected in processes such as globalisation and ideologies such as population control and motherhood. The author concludes that while these technologies have created new freedoms for select groups of women, they have, at the same time, created new forms of dependence for others. A large number of women have been turned into mainly consumers of these new technologies rather than being in control of them and, in the process, have paid a heavy price in terms of financial costs, adverse effects on health, and loss of bodily integrity and autonomy. These women, maintains Dr Gupta, have ended up becoming more dependent upon the providers of technology, the state (which regulates its use) and upon the technology itself. Designed to reopen debates on the far-reaching implications and the new dilemmas created by recent advances in reproductive technologies, this accessible and fascinating book will be of interest to all those involve in gender studies, maternal and child health, demography, sociology, as well as the concerned lay reader. Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2000 ISBN 0-7619-9431-9, 707 pages, 6” x 9”
	No. 27 Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture An exploration of the Borderland between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry Arthur Kleinman "Kleinman, a psychiatrist, trained in anthropology, reports on his studies of health care in Taiwan. He describes his observations of clinical interviews between various medical practitioners - folk-healers, temple medicine men, and Chinese-style and Western-style physicians - and their patients. Throughout this fascinating and thought-provoking account, the author stresses the importance of adopting the proper cultural perspective, making one's interpretations within that framework, and relying on direct observation. Kleinman is adept at setting cultural context and acute in identifying the important points. His use of the 'explanatory model' and 'clinical reality' in his interpretation and discussion clarifies what otherwise might be diffuse and confusing situation." - Library Journal "An exploration of the controversial borderland between psychiatry, medicine and medical anthropology. Professor Kleinman, with his feet firmly based in all three camps, has succeeded in writing a scholarly book which will reward a careful reader… The author urges an integration of social and cultural methods into the routine training of doctors, so as to enable a more humane and appropriate clinical practice… it can only be hoped that the doors of the various departments, including departments of psychiatry, will be open and that this challenge will be responded to." - British Journal of Psychiatry "His experiences are not the point of his story; they serve to illuminate. His personal picture of Taiwan's health care is embedded in a matrix of argument. His aim is to convince us that we must study the whole of a culture to understand its health care, that a system of health care includes every healer and belief, no matter how foreign to the dominant practice, that common features of health-care systems an be derived from comparing them, and that these common features are instructive about health are and about our own systems." - New England Journal of Medicine University California Press, ISBN 0-520-04511-4, 427 pages, 6” x 9”
	No. 28 Population, Policy and Women´s Rights Transforming Reproductive Choice Ruth Dixon - Mueller ISBN 0-275-94611-8, 287 pages, 6" x 9"
	No. 29 Reproductive Health in Developing Countries Expanding dimensions, building solutions Amy O. tsui, Judith N. Wasserheit, and John G. Haaga, Sexually transmitted diseases, unintended pregnancies, infertility, and other reproductive problems are major concerns around the world, especially in developing countries. Reproductive Health in Developing Countries describes the magnitude of these problems and what is known about the effectiveness of interventions in four areas: Infection – free sex. Immediate priorities for identifying and treating sexually transmitted and other reproductive tract diseases are identified Intended pregnancies and births. The state of family planning is assessed and ways to improve information and services are detailed Healthy pregnancy and delivery. Essential obstetric services and prenatal care to reduce the toll of maternal and infant deaths are described Healthy sexuality. Such issues as sexual violence and the practice of female genital mutilation are discussed in terms of the cultural contexts in which they occur. Addressing the design and delivery of reproductive health services, this volume presents lessons learned from past programs and others principles for deciding how to spend limited funds National Academic Press, Washington, D.C. 1997, ISBN 0-309-05644-6,314 pages, 6^” x 9”
	No. 30 Reproductive tract infections
	No. 31 Research Methods in Anthropology Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches H. Russell Bernard Research methods in Anthropology is the standard textbook for methods classes in anthropology programs. Over the past years, it has launched tens of thousands of students into the field with its combination of rigorous methodological advice, wry humor, commonsense advice, and numerous examples from actual field projects. Now the third edition of this classic textbook is ready, written in Bernard’s unmistakable conversation style. RMA 3 contains all the useful methodological advice of previous editions and more: additional material on text analysis, an expanded section on sampling in field settings, advice concerning the use of the computers for fieldwork and analysis, a discussion of the pros and cons of rapid assessment techniques in anthropology, and dozens of new examples. “Methods belong to all of us” is the watchword of this book. Whether you come from a scientific, interpretive, or applied anthropological tradition, you should learn field methods from the best guide around. ALTAMIRA Press, ISBN 0-7591-0148-5, 752 pages, 2002, 6^” x 9”
	No. 32 Sex, Disease and Society A comparative History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific Edited by Milton Lewis, Scott Bamber, Michael Waugh Greenwood Press First published in 1997 ISBN 0-313-29442-9, 296 pages, 6^” x 9”
	No. 33 Sexual Cultures and Migration in the Era of AIDS Edited by Gilbert Herdt During the last decade few topics have provoked more controversy and a larger storm of research in anthropology and demography than the analysis of sexual risk behaviour in the global spread of sexually transmitted diseases. This thematic has been of special interest to the Committee on Anthropological Demography (International Union for the Scientific Study of Population), because of the intersection of the critical demographic interest in fertility and migration, and the newfound anthropological research on AIDS and sexualitiy. Demographers and anthropologists alike have found themselves caught up in an explosion of international research and education campaigns to prevent the spread of the disease. This research has included study of cross-cultural migration, new sexual practices and the commercial sex trade, and the spread of HIV/AIDS across subgroups, ethnic boundaries, cultural regions, and international borders. The transnational spread of the disease has stimulated a new dialogue between the fields of anthropology and demography and that of epidemiology, where organizations such as the World Health Organization and the Center for Disease Control have carried out surveys on the impact of human movement and sexual disease on demographic behaviours. However, it remains for anthropological demography to assist in the creation of models that integrate field methodology and qualitative data with extensive data panels for the purpose of conceptualizing the larger map of issues. The contents of this book result from a conference convened in Bangkok, Thailand, in March 1994, which was broadly concerned with the relationship between migration and sexual practices, and AIDS in developing countries. The conference was organized by the IUSSP in cooperation with the Institute of Population Studies of Chulalongkorn University. Many research scholars made presentations and a variety of observers were also present for the meeting and intensive study workshops. The definition of sexual culture and social-historical formations that result in sexual encounters and the interruption of fertility behaviour across cultural boundaries were of particular interest to the symposium. The conference was an initiative of the Committee on Anthropological Demography, a research group attached to the IUSSP. The meeting was organized and chaired by Dr Gilbert Herdt, an anthropologist on the Committee for Human Development of the University of Chicago. Dr Alaka Basu (Chair) and Dr Kim Streatrim of the Committee on Demographic Anthropology, and the late Mr. Bruno Remiche, Executive Director of the IUSSP, participated. The meeting was funded under the auspices of the IUSSP and was supported in part by the Australian Development Commission and the Population Research Institute of Thailand. For their kind help and sponsorship, we should like to thank the following persons: Charas Suwanweal, President of Chulalongkorn University; Dr Kua Wongboonsin, Director of the Population Research Institute; Penporn Tirasawat of the Institute; along with many others from the Institute and University. We are especially indebted to Penporn Tirasawat for her gracious hospitality. We are sad at the passing of Mr Remiche and wish to convey our deepest sympathy to his family and friends. I wish to acknowledge the help of the following persons who contributed to the success of the conference; Dr Caroline Bledsoe of Northwestern University; Dr Chayan Vanhanaphuti of Chiang Mai University; Dr Han ten Brummelhuis of the University of Amsterdam; Dr Kate Bond of the Institute of Social Research, Chiang Mai University; Dr Joseph Carrier of Los Angeles; and Mr. Jan-Willem van wyngaarten of the University of Amsterdam. Finally, I would like to exercise my prerogative as editor in dedicating this book to my dear friend and colleague, Dr John H. Gagnon, Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. John will be surprised to learn of this dedication, because it was never discussed with him, and he participated in the symposium as one senior scholar among many others. However, there is only one John Gagnon, whose knowledge and erudition in the area of international sex research is unsurpassed and has been an inspiration to me and many others for at least a generation. This book is a small token of our gratitude. Clarendon Press – Oxford 1997 ISBN 0-19-829230-9, 256 pages, 6^” x 9”
	No. 34 Sexually transmitted infections
	No. 35 Small Wars The Cultural Politics of Childhood Edited by Nancy Scheper – Hughes and Carolyn Sargent University of California Press, Ltd, 1998 ISBN 0-520-20917-6, 430 pages, 6^” x 9”
	No. 36 The Methods and Uses of Anthropological Demography Alaka Malwade Basu and Peter Aaby This volume takes stock of the current status of the comparatively new discipline of 'Anthropological demography', and discusses its major methods, its main strengths, and its chief limitations. It includes contributions from both mainstream demographers and anthropologists, all stressing the necessity of a shared agenda for each discipline to progress successfully and avoid marginalization. While the unique research and personal satisfaction afforded by 'participant observation' is described, the book also highlights the potential contribution to the understanding of demographic events of much more than the field methods of traditional anthropology. In particular, it stresses the insights possible from qualitative focus group interview, from longitudinal studies and from a greater interest in what may be called 'armchair' anthropology, in which demographers complement their quantitative findings with qualitative information and understanding gleaned from a careful reading of anthropological literature, in a form of both ethnographies and anthropological theories. In addition, it stresses the larger world of the ideal anthropological demographer: a world that includes the cultural context of course, but also takes into account the historical and political forces that condition so much individual behaviour. But the book is also a critical venture. It includes therefore considerable discussion of the common limits of the purely anthropological approach for understanding demo graphic events and processes, especially from a larger policy perspective, at the same time as it emphasizes the crucial role or the anthropological approach to designing policy that is potentially effective as well as socially and culturally sensitive. It reiterates the often complementary role of anthropological demography and also discusses some specific questions in demographic research which it does not as yet seem to have the capacity to illuminate. The book is aimed primarily at demographers wishing to broaden their research agenda and depend their understanding of demographic behaviour, but it also hopes to convert mainstream anthropologists to take a more active interest in demographic issues. Both disciplines, after all, have a common intense interest in the kind of life and death issues that they can very fruitfully explore together or by using one another's research methods. Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York First published 1998 ISBN 0-19-829337-2, 329 pages, 6” x 9”
	No. 37 The Social science Encyclopedia Editted by Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper The Social Science Encyclopedia, Second Edition covers the whole range of the social science. Written in a highly accessible way, the entries cover developments in traditional fields, vital new area of study, and cross-disciplinary pursuits. Among the new topics in the second edition are: Connectionism Cultural studies Discourse analysis Ethnic politics Ethnography Gender and sex Media and politics Rational choice theory Reflexivity Risk analysis The Social Science Encyclopedia is an indispensable reference work for students and scholars in all areas of social study. First published 1996 by Routledge. Reprinted 2001 ISBN 0-415-28560-7, 923 pages, 6^1/2” x 9^1/2”
	No. 38 Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology Peter J. Brown This collection of 45 readings exposes students to the breadth of theoretical viewpoints and issues in the field of medical anthropology. The text provides specific examples and case studies of research as it is applied in a range of health settings – from clinical encounters to preventive services to international health. Mayfield Publishing Company ISBN 1-55934-723-6, 451 pages, 8^1/2” x 11”
	No. 39 Women's health in mainland southeast Asia
	No. 40 Infertility around the globe New thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologies. Marcia C. Inhorn and Krank Van Balen "Scholarship on infertility too often has been culture-bound, focusing on Western versions of biosocial reproductive problems and on technological solutions. This innovative volume decenters that perspective, with studies on the ostracism of elder childless men in Kenya, political suspicions of vaccination campaigns in the Cameroons, new reproductive technologies for ultraorthodox use in Israel, and China's emergent eugenics. It enlarges the 'public' in public health". RAYNA RAPP, coeditor of Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. "Extremely well-written, innovative, and timely, Infertility around the Globe is a definitive work, demonstrating that infertility is a globally significant phenomenon. This volume will attract anthropologists and other social scientists interested in the study of reproduction, as well as anyone interested in gender studies, women's studies, and international health". CAROLYN SARGENT, coeditor of Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross Cultural Perspectives. "This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary book will change how infertility is theorized and how intervention programs are designed. It will become the primary sourcebook for international and comparative research in a variety of cultural settings. Reading this book was a distinct pleasure". LYNN MORGAN, coeditor of Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions. "A stunning achievement. Through its richly textured ethnographic account, this book beautifully explicates the universals and particularities of involuntary childlessness in disparate world regions. It challenges the myopic view that the heartbreak is limited to advanced industrial societies. This book is a much-needed antidote in a field mostly characterized by polemic and untested assumptions". CAROLE H. BROWNER, UCLA School of Medicine. MARCIA C. INHORN is Associate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, International Institute, and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her past books include Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Tradition (1994) and Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt (1996). She is coeditor of The Anthropology of Infectious Disease: International Health Perspectives (1997). FRANK VAN BALEN is Associate Professor of Education and in the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of three books in Dutch on childlessness, infertility, and new reproductive technologies, as well as a large number of articles on these subject in international journals. University California Press 2002 ISBN 0-520-23137-6, 347 pages, 6” x 9”
	No. 41 Family and Social Policy in Japan Anthropological Approaches Roger Goodman Social policies reflect and construct important ideas in societies about the relationship between the state and the individual. Family and social Policies in Japan examines this relationship in a number of hitherto unexplored areas in Japanese society including policies relating to fertility, peri-natal care, child care, child abuse, sexuality, care for the aged and death. The conclusion is that great change has taken place in all these areas through the 1990s as a consequence of Japan’s changing economy, demography and the development of civil society. The case studies, based on intensive anthropological fieldwork, not only demonstrate how and why family and social policies have involved in the world’s second largest economy, but in the process provide a challenge to many of the assumptions of western policymakers. The empirical material contained in this volume will be of interest to anthropologists and to students and practitioners. Cambridge University Press 2002 ISBN 0-521-01635-5, 237 pages, 6^” x 9”
	No. 42 Census and Identity Edied by David I Kertzer and Dominique Arel Census and identity examines the ways that states have attempted to pigeonhole people within their boundaries into racial, ethnic, and linguistic categories. These attempts, whether through American efforts to divide the US population into mutually exclusive racial categories, or through the Soviet system of inscribing nationality categories on internal passports, have important implications not only for people's own identities and life chances, but for national political and social processes as well. The book reviews the history of these categorizing efforts by the state, and offers a theoretical context for examining them. It is illustrated with studies from a range of countries. Cambridge University Press 2002 ISBN 0-521-80823-5, 210 pages, 6^” x 9”
	No. 43 Social Lives of Medicne Susan Reynolds Whyte, university of Copenhagen Sjaak Van der Geest, university of Amsterdam Anita Hardon, university of Amsterdam Medicines are the core of treatment in biomedicine, as in many other medical traditions. As material things, they have social as well as pharmacological lives, with people and between people. They are tokens of healings and hope, as well as valuable commodities. Each chapter of this book shows drugs in the hands of particular actors: mothers in manila, villagers in Burkina Faso, women in Netherlands, consumers in London, market traders in Cameroon, pharmacists in Mexico, injectionists in Uganda, doctors in Sri Lanka, industrialist in India, and policymakers in Geneva. Each example is used to explore a different problem in the study of medicines, such as social efficacy, experiences of control, skepticism and cultural politics, commodification of health, the attraction of technology and the marketing of images and values. The book shows how anthropologists deal with the sociality of medicines, through their ethnography, their uses of knowledge. Cambridge University Press 2002 ISBN 0-521-80025-0 200 pages, 8” x 9”
	No. 44 Cultures of Relatedness New approaches to the Study of Kinship Edited by Janet Carsten, University of Edinburgh Our understanding of what makes a person a relative has been transformed by radical changes in marriage arrangements and gender relations, and by new reproductive technologies. We can no longer take it for granted that our most fundamental social relationships are grounded in ‘biology’ or ‘nature’. These developments have prompted anthropologists to take a fresh look at idioms of relatedness in other societies, and to review the ways in which relationships are symbolised and interpreted in our own society. Defamiliarising some classis cases, challenging the established analytic categories of anthropology, the contributors to this innovative book focus on the boundary between the ‘biological’ and the ‘social’, and bring into question the received wisdom at the heart of the study of kinship. Cambridge University Press 2000 ISBN 0-521-65193-X, 215 pages, 8” x9”
	No. 45 Living and working with the new medical technologies Intersections of Inquiry Margaret Lock, McGill University Alan Young, McGill University Alberto Cambrosio, McGill University This stimulating collection of essays is the product of face–to-face dialogues among anthropologists, sociologists, and philosopher historians, all of whom focus their attention on newly created biomedical technologies and their application in practice. Drawing on ethnographic and historial case studies, the authors show how biomedical technologies are produced through the agencies of tools and techniques, scientists and doctors, funding bodies, patients, clients, and the public. Despite shares concerns, these essays reveal that the authors have achieved no consensus about the objectives of their research and deep epistomological divides remain – making for provocative reading. Cambridge University Press 2000, ISBN 0-521-65210-3, 295 pages, 8” x 9”
	No. 46 Private Life under Socialism Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village 1949-1999 Yunxiang Yan Stanford University Press, 2003 ISBN 0-8047-3309-0, 288 pages, 6^” x 9”
	No. 47 Strangers in the City Reconfigurations of Space, Power and Social Networks within Chinas Floating Population Li Zhang With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migration policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China’s “floating population,” have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This massive flow of rural migrants directly challenges Chinese socialist modes of state control. This book traces the profound transformations of space, power relations, and social networks within a mobile population that has broken through the constraints of the government’s household registration system. The author explores this important social change through a detailed ethnographic account of the construction, destruction, and eventual reconstruction of the largest migrant community in Beijing. She focuses on the informal privatization of space and power in this community through analyzing the ways migrant leaders build their power base by controlling housing and market spaces and mobilizing social networks. Stanford University Press, 2001 ISBN 0-8047-4206-5, 286 pages, 6^” x 9”
	No. 48 Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood. Edited by Allison James and Alan Prout When the First Edition of this seminal work appeared in 1990 the sociology of childhood was only just beginning to emerge as a distinct sub-discipline. Individuals and research groups existed but they were scattered, making communication and cooperation only partial. Seven or so years later the field has cohered remarkably: research centres and programmes have appeared; conferences and seminars have mushroomed; new journal has been established; and a number of important texts on childhood have been published. It is thus timely publish this second, revised and wholly updated edition of the book which made such a major contribution to this process. The book contains a collection of articles which summarize the latest developments in the study of childhood across the social science (history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and feminist and developmental studies) which show how childhood is constructed in society. Scholars and professionals from developed and developing countries world-wide share their knowledge of having worked and of working with children. This second edition will be a necessary update for all educationists and professionals involved with children. A. James and A. Prout, First published in 1997 Reprinted 1999 and 2000 ISBN 0-7507-0596-5. 260 pages, 6^” x 9”
	No. 49 Research with Children. Perspectives and Practices Edited by Pia Christensen and Allison James Research with Children is a unique resource book on the methodology of childhood research. Leading and new researchers within the social studies of childhood discuss central questions of epistemology and methodology, demonstrating the links between theory and practice. The theoretical and practical questions are set out in a clear and well-argued fashion and will therefore appeal both to the newcomer to childhood studies and to experienced researchers in the field. The volume covers a wide range of subjects, such as reflexivity in childhood research and the importance of phenomenology and autobiography as research methods for understanding the social and cultural representation of childhood. It stresses the importance of adopting both comparative and intergenerational perspectives to account for the commonality and diversity of childhood, children’s empowerment, and children as subjects and participants in the research process. These various perspectives are explored in relation to a variety of specialized and innovative research techniques and practices – as well as more traditional modes – such as unstructured interviews, task-centered activities, questionnaires and ethnographic participant observation. The authors draw on their experiences and extensive expertise within a wide range of fields and disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, education, and social policy and practice. The book will appeal to students and researchers in these fields. Fisrt published 2000 by Falmer Press Reprinted 2001, 2002, 2003 by RoutledgeFalmer ISBN 0-750-70974-X, 272 pages, 6^” x 9”
	No. 50 Children's Lifeworlds Labour, Welfare and Gender in the Developing World. Olga Nieuwenhuys Children's Lifeworlds examines how working children face the challenge of having to combine work with school. Moving beyond the usual concern with child labour and welfare to a critical assessment of the daily work routine of children, this book questions how class and kinship, gender and household organization, state ideology and educaion influence and conceal the lives of children in developing countries. Presenting an extraordinarilly sympathtiec and detailed case study of boys' and girls' daily work routines in a village in southern India, this book shows how children negotiate the value of their work. The combination of personal experience, quantitative data and in-depth anthropological methods sheds light on the world of peasant children, a world that social anthropology has largely neglected. Olga nieuwenhuys is senior researcher at the Institute for Development Research, University of Amsterdam (InDRA) ISBN 0-415-09751-7, 228 pages, 6^” x 9”
	No. 51 Conceiving the New World Order The Global Politics of Reproduction Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp This groundbreaking volume provides a dramatic investigation of the dynamics of reproduction. In an unusually broad spectrum of essays, a distinguished group of international feminist scholars and activist explores the complexity of contemporary sexual politics around the globe. Using reproduction as an entry point in the study of social life and placing it at the center of social theory, the authors examine how cultures are produced, contested, and transformed as people imagine their collective future in the creation of the next generation. The studies encompass a wide variety of subjects, from the impact of AIDS on reproduction in the United States to the after-effects of Chernobyl on the Sami people in Scandinavia and the impact of totalitarian abortion and birth control policies in Romania and China. Conceiving the New World Order is a must read for all anthropologists and gender studies scholars as well as anyone interested in the dynamics of women’s experiences around the world. University of California Press ISBN 0–520- 08914-6, 450 pages, 6^” x 9
	No. 52 Birth in four Cultures A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden and the United States Brigitte Jordan Revised and expanded by Robbie Davis-Floyd While the process of childbirth is, in some sense, everywhere the same, it is also everywhere different in that each culture has produced a birthing system that is strikingly dissimilar from the others. Based on her fieldwork in the United States, Sweden, Holland and Yucatan, Jordan develops a framework for the discussion and investigation of different birthing systems. Illustrated with useful examples and lively anecdotes from Jordan’s own fieldwork, this innovative comparative ethnography brings the reader to a deeper understanding of childbirth as a culturally grounded, biosocially mediated, and interactionally achieved event. This award-winning book, expanded through four editions, includes chapters that represent the author’s most recent work, probing the issues surrounding the anthropology of birth. ISBN 0-88133-717-X, 1993, 236 pages, 6^” x 9”
	No. 53 Between sacrifice and desire National Identity and the Governing of Femininity in Vietnam Ashley Pettus Published in 2003 by Routledge ISBN 0-415-94431-7, 244 pages, 6^” x 9”
	No. 54 Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health: Equity, Access and Quality in Family Practice Dedicated to the Women of Cambodia, the Philippines and Vietnam Edited by Noel L. Espallardo First published 2004 by The Family Medicine Research Group, INC. ISBN 971-929-090-0, 344 pages, 6^” x 9”
	No. 55 The Social Psychology of Stigma Edited by Todd F. Heatherton, Robert E. Kleck, Michelle R. Hebl, Jay G. Hull The devaluation of those perceived as "different" has profound repercussions both for individuals and for society. This book brings together leading researchers to present groundbreaking findings on such topics as the dimensions of stigma, why people stigmatize others, how targeted individuals are affected by and respond to stigmatization, and influences on social interactions. Chapters are organized around a cohesive conceptual framework that incorporates the perspectives of both the perceiver and the the target; the relevance of personal and collective identities; and the interplay of affective, cognitive, and behavioral reactions in stigmatization. The Guilford Press Paperback edition 2003 ISBN 1-57230-942-3, 450 pages, 6" x 9"
	No. 56 Effective Writing For Health Professionals A Practical Guide to Getting Published Megan - Jane Johnstone Health professionals are increasingly expected to conduct and publish their research, apply for grants, write newsletters, liaise with the media, present conference papers and contribute articles to professional journals. Writing well is an essential professional skill and writing to publish is an important aspect of professional development. but how do you get published? where do you starts? how do you know if your writing is good enough and what can you learn to make it better? Effective writing for Health Professionals is an invaluable insider's guide to publishing within the health profession, providing handy tips on: Getting started The writing process Winning habits of successful authors Promoting your work Author rights and responsibilities Many would - be writers - students, administrators, clinicians, managers and academics alike - are often intimidated at the thought of writing. This book will help to overcome this writing block and introduce aspiring authors to the world of writing and publishing in a professional capacity. Written by a best-selling academic author, *Effective Writing for Health Professionals* provides insights and strategies for publishing designed for nurses, midwives and health professionals. First published 2004 by Routledge ISBN 0-415-33447-00, 224 pages, 6" X 9 ""