Suggestions for Further Reading

in Anthropology, Public Health, and Reproductive Health

NB: All the books on this list can be found in the library of the ‘Vietnam Commission  for Population, Family and Children’, 12 Ngo Tat To, Hà Nội

 Anderson, R.

1996    Magic, Science and Health: The Aims and Achievements of Medical Anthropology. Florida: Harcourt Brace College Publishers.

Arya, O.P. & C.A. Hart (eds.)

1998    Sexually Transmitted Infections and AIDS in the Tropics. Wallingford: CAB International.

Barnard, A. & J. Spencer (eds.)

1996    Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. London: Routledge.

Basu, A. M. & P. Aaby (eds.)

1998    The Methods and Uses of Anthropological Demography. New York: Clarendon Press.

Bernard, H. R.

2001    Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.

Bracht, N. (ed.)

1999    Health Promotion at the Community Level. California: SAGE.

Brown, P. J. (ed.)

1998    Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology. California: Mayfield Publishing Company.

Böck, M. & A. Rao (eds.)

2001    Culture, Creation and Procreation: Concepts of Kinship in South Asian Practice. New York: Berghahn Books.

Craig, D.

2002    Familiar Medicine: Everyday Health Knowledge and Practice in Today´s Vietnam. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Dixon-Mueller, R.

1993    Population, Policy and Women´s Rights: Transforming Reproductive Choice. Westport: Praeger.

Farmer, P.

1993    AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame. California: University of California Press.

2001    Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. California: University of California Press.

Germain, A., K. K. Holmes, P. Piot & J. Wasserheit (eds.)

1992    Reproductive Tract Infections: Global Impact and Priorities for Women´s Reproductive Health. Plenum Publishing Corporation.

Gupta, A. J.

2000    New Reproductive Technologies, Women´s Health and Autonomy: Freedom or Dependency? (Indo-Dutch Studies on Development Alternatives, 25.) New Delhi: Sage publications.

Hahn, R. A. (ed.)

1999    Anthropology in Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Society. New York: Oxford University Press.

 Hardon, A., P. Boonmonkon, P. Streefland, M. Lim Tan, T. Hongvivatana, S. Van der Geest, A. Loes Van Staa, AnneLoes & C. Varkevisser

1994    Applied Health Research: Anthropology of Health and Health Care. Amsterdam: Manual, CIP-data, Konkinklijke Bibliotheek.

Haughton, D., J. Haughton, S. Bales, Kim Chuyên, Trường Thi & Nguyễn Nguyệt Nga

1999    Health and Wealth in Vietnam: An Analysis of Household and Living Standards. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

Herdt, G. (ed.)

1997    Sexual Cultures and Migration in the Era of AIDS: Anthropological and Demographic Perspectives. Oxford: Clarendon Press Oxford.

Inhorn, M. C. & P. J. Brown

1998    The Anthropology of Infectious Disease: International Health Perspectives. Amsterdam: Routledge.

Inhorn, M. C. & F. Van Balen (eds.)

2002    Infertility Around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender and Reproductive Technologies. California: University of California Press.

Kertzer, D. I. & T. E. Fricke (eds.)

1997       Anthropological Demography: Toward a New Synthesis. University of Chicago Press.

Kleinman, A.

1980    Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture. California: University of California Press.

Kuper, A. & J. Kuper (eds.)

1996    The Social Science Encyclopedia. London: Routledge.

Lawson, J. B., K. A. Harrison & S. Bergstrom (eds.)

2001    Maternity Care in Developing Countries. London: RCOG Press.

Lewis, M. J., S. Bamber, M. Lewis & M. Waugh (eds.)

1997    Sex, Disease and Society: A Comparative History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Westport: Greenwood Press.

Lyttleton, C.

2000    Endangered Relations: Negotiating Sex and AIDS in Thailand. Amsterdam: Dunitz Martin Ltd.

Manderson, L. & P. Liamputtong (eds.)

2002    Coming of Age in South and Southeast Asia: Youth, Courtship and Sexuality. Surrey: Curzon Press.

McGee, R. J. & R. L. Warms

1999    Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History. California: Mayfield Publishing Company.

Merson, M. H., R. E. Black & A. J. Mills

2001    International Public Health: Disease, Programs, Systems and Policies. Maryland: Aspen Publication.

Mundigo, A. L. & C. Indriso (eds.)

1999        Abortion in the Developing World. New York: Zed Books.

2000   Nichter, M. & M. Nichter

1996    Anthropology and International Health: Asian Case Studies. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach Publishers.

Rice, P. L. & L. Manderson (eds.)

1996    Maternity and Reproductive Health in Asian Societies. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers.

Rozzario, S. & G. Samuel (eds.)

2002    Daughters of Hariti: Childbirth and Female Healers in South and Southeast Asia. London: Routledge.

 Sargent, C. F. & T. M. Johnson (eds.)

1996    Handbook of Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Methods. Westport: Greenwood Press.

Scheper-Hughes, N.

1993    Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. California: University of California Press.

Scheper-Hughes, N. & C. Sargent (eds.)

1998    Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood. California: University of California Press.

Strathern, A. & P. J. Stewart

1999    Curing and Healing: Medical Anthropology in Global Perspective. North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press.

Tsui, A. O., J. N. Wasserheit & J. G. Haaga (eds.)

1997    Reproductive Health in Developing Countries, Expanding Dimensions, Building Solutions. Washington D.C.: National Academy Press.

Whittaker, A.

2001    Intimate Knowledge: Women and Their Health in North-East Thailand. Allen & Unwin.

Whittaker, A. (ed.)

2001        Women´s Health in Mainland Southeast Asia. Hayworth Press.

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