Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice Series
This series will feature US-based ethnographic research into the relations between health, culture, power and knowledge. While focused on the US, the series will also explore the place of US institutions in the world-wide reach of biomedicine through migration, transnationalism, corporate influence and other global processes. This series fills a critical gap in medical anthropology, one of the most vibrant and well-recognized subfields in the discipline of anthropology.
The series will cover both established and emerging topics in medical anthropology, such as the formation of professional subjectivities in health care, pharmaceuticals and everyday life, and the social context of biomedical technologies. It aims to achieve several important goals:
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to help bring medical anthropology’s unique perspectives to broader debates about health and health care in the US, helping anthropologists gain a voice at the table of policy-making, medical education, and patient and community advocacy movements;
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to highlight the importance of anthropological research on the body, medicine, health, and health care for understanding social, cultural, and political-economic changes in the US;
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to raise the visibility and significance of ethnographic work in the US as a key site in theoretically developed anthropological research.
The majority of books are anticipated to be single- or dual-authored. The overarching argument and “big picture” contribution of the work must be clear. Writing must be both accessible and engaging. We seek theoretically powerful manuscripts that present rich ethnographic analyses of significant health issues. Works in this series will not only advance anthropological scholarship but will also address at least one additional audience such as patient advocacy organizations; health care planners and policy makers; health care providers (specific groups such as nurses, obstetricians, physical therapists), the organizers and participants in community service work/volunteer health missions; and students entering into health professional fields. The books are anticipated to be of interest to additional readerships outside of anthropology, such as the study of health/health inequality, science and technology studies, and biopolitics.
GENERAL EDITORS
Paul Brodwin, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Michele Rivkin-Fish, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Susan Shaw, University of Massachusetts-AmherstSUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Submissions should take the form of a 3-5 page proposal outlining the intent and scope of the project, its merits in comparison to existing texts, and the audience it is designed to reach. You should also include a detailed Table of Contents, 2-3 sample chapters, and a current copy of your curriculum vitae. Please refer to NYU Press’s submission guidelines. Please direct queries and submissions simultaneously to: Paul Brodwin Department of Anthropology University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee brodwin@uwm.edu Michele Rivkin-Fish Department of Anthropology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill mrfish@unc.edu Susan Shaw School of Public Health and Health Sciences University of Massachusetts-Amherst sjshaw@umass.edu Jennifer Hammer Senior Editor NYU Press jennifer.hammer@nyu.eduShowing results 1-8 of 8 Filter Results OPEN +
War and Health
The Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Price $30.00
ISBN: 9781479894611
11/05/2019
NYU Press
Reproductive Injustice
Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
Price $30.00
ISBN: 9781479853571
06/25/2019
NYU Press
The New American Servitude
Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers
Price $32.00
ISBN: 9781479808830
04/02/2019
NYU Press
Inequalities of Aging
Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care
Price $30.00
ISBN: 9781479807178
08/28/2018
NYU Press
Unequal Coverage
The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States
Price $30.00
ISBN: 9781479848737
12/26/2017
NYU Press
Transnational Reproduction
Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India
Price $30.00
ISBN: 9781479828388
09/27/2016
NYU Press
Living on the Spectrum
Autism and Youth in Community
Price $30.00
ISBN: 9781479889068
07/07/2020
NYU Press
The Costs of War
The Health Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Price $99.00
ISBN: 9780814750346
12/01/1988
NYU Press

War and Health
The Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Price $30.00
ISBN: 9781479894611
11/05/2019
NYU Press
Reproductive Injustice
Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
Price $30.00
ISBN: 9781479853571
06/25/2019
NYU Press
The New American Servitude
Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers
Price $32.00
ISBN: 9781479808830
04/02/2019
NYU Press
Inequalities of Aging
Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care
Price $30.00
ISBN: 9781479807178
08/28/2018
NYU Press
Unequal Coverage
The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States
Price $30.00
ISBN: 9781479848737
12/26/2017
NYU Press
Transnational Reproduction
Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India
Price $30.00
ISBN: 9781479828388
09/27/2016
NYU Press
Living on the Spectrum
Autism and Youth in Community
Price $30.00
ISBN: 9781479889068
07/07/2020
NYU Press
The Costs of War
The Health Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Price $99.00
ISBN: 9780814750346
12/01/1988
NYU Press