Human African trypanosomiasis, better known as sleeping sickness, nowadays ranks
among the more neglected diseases in the countries of Africa where it is found. Though it …

Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto
Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have …

Raging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million
people are affected by these and other disasters, which cause loss of life and damage to …

In recent years the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has emerged as this era's most
renowned, and arguably its most influential, global health player. A century ago, the …

Biomedicine in an Unstable Place is the story of people's struggle to make biomedicine work
in a public hospital in Papua New Guinea. It is a story encompassing the history of hospital …

Disasters seem destined to be major issues of academic enquiry in the new century if for no
other reason than that they are inseparably linked to questions of environmental …

In this fascinating and comprehensive study, Greg Bankoff traces the history of natural
hazards in the Philippines from the records kept by the Spanish colonisers to the'Calamitous …

Nineteenth-century French writers and travelers imagined Muslim colonies in North Africa to
be realms of savage violence, lurid sexuality, and primitive madness. Colonial Madness …

In this lesson-packed book, Mark Nichter, one of the world's leading medical
anthropologists, summarizes what more than a quarter-century of health social science …