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In Being Ethical among Vezo People, Frank Muttenzer analyzes environmental change in reef ecosystems of southwest Madagascar and the impacts of globalized fishery markets on Vezo peoples material well-being. Muttenzer describes fishers perceptions of the physical environment in the context of changing livelihood and ritual practices.

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Elizabeth Williams draws on the perspectives of womanist theology and anthropology to examine how Black, American women use faith to achieve well-being after a breast cancer diagnosis. Williams portrays how these women have constructed a cultural theology of breast cancer that draws on their experiences and worldviews.

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In Boundaries of Care, Ryan I. Logan introduces readers to the lived experience of community health workers and how, through outreach and advocacy, these workers intimately shape and improve the well-being of their communities.

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This edited volume explores the interconnections between care work, travel, and healthcare, placing an emphasis on the emotional dimensions of seeking care away from home.

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Clinical Anthropology 2.0 presents a new approach to applied medical anthropology that highlights how medical anthropologists can help to improve patient experience and medical education as members of interdisciplinary care teams in clinical settings.

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In Competing Orders of Medical Care in Ethiopia, Pino Schirippa illustrates the complexity of pharmaceuticals and remedies in Ethiopia. Schirripa details how these cures are produced and distributed and how their proliferation is influenced by local politics, financial resources, social relations, and neoliberal beliefs.

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Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States shows the complexity of migrant experiences, advocating for immigration as a social issue rather than a social problem, and understanding that immigration rests on larger units of meaning structured by time and place.

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Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States shows the complexity of migrant experiences, advocating for immigration as a social issue rather than a social problem, and understanding that immigration rests on larger units of meaning structured by time and place.

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Clementine K. Fujimura and Simone Nommensen discuss the ethical treatment of animals and provide an overview of current and past uses of animals to enhance human well-being in Germany, the United States, Japan, and Russia.

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Clementine K. Fujimura and Simone Nommensen discuss the ethical treatment of animals and provide an overview of current and past uses of animals to enhance human well-being in Germany, the United States, Japan, and Russia.

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In Everyday Food Practices, Tarunna Sebastian examines the everyday food journeys of people in diverse metropolitan communities. Sebastian investigates how food knowledge and education inform food choices and are influenced by the media, social and familial interaction, globalised food retailers, and alternative food networks.

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This book assesses gender-based partner abuse in western Belize. It investigates the prevalence and cultural normalization of abuse and examines contributing factors and the viewpoints of diverse players, further contextualizing local realities within the global struggle for gender equality and social justice.

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In Love and its Entanglements among the Enxet of Paraguay, Stephen Kidd examines how the Indigenous Enxet people navigate daily social and economic interactions within the market economy of Paraguay.

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In Love in the Time of Ethnography, the contributors argue that research is an affective process as well as a cognitive one. The authors explore lovevariously definedas an important facet of human experience, as a way of knowing and as an ethical rationale for ethnography.

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In No Perfect Birth: Trauma and Obstetric Care in the Rural United States, Kristin Haltinner examines the institutional and ideological forces that cause harm to women in childbirth in the rural United States.

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In American Lovers, Victor de Munck draws on evolutionary, cognitive, and social theories to present a cultural model of romantic love. de Munck draws on interviews with gay, straight, and polyamorous individuals to provide insight into the core components and intricate variability of contemporary love.

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Three Fruits: Nepali Ayurvedic Doctors on Health, Nature, and Social Change focuses on Ayurvedic doctors during a period of social and political change in Nepal. Using doctors narratives this study describes the unique human-nature relationship found in Ayurvedic practice and highlights Ayurvedas relevance in Nepal and the world.

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Tourism and Maternal Health examines prenatal health in the Monteverde Zone of Costa Rica in the context of a tourism-driven nutrition transition. Allison R. Cantor highlights the essential role of practice-oriented research in the complex relationship between global policy and community health.

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Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept contributes to our understanding of the ways that culture and community influence concepts of wellness, the experience of well-being, and health outcomes. This book includes both theoretical conceptualizations and practice-based explorations.

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Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept contributes to our understanding of the ways that culture and community influence concepts of wellness, the experience of well-being, and health outcomes. This book includes both theoretical conceptualizations and practice-based explorations.

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Demographic Desires: Medicine, Media, and Emergency Contraception in India makes visible how under neoliberal regimes of empowered consumerism Emergency Contraceptive Pills (ECPs) introduced as non-prescription pills in 2005 bring histories of demographic control projects and demographic anxieties into the present.