Category: Textbooks

Drug users are usually portrayed as useless slackers, burdens on society, and just plain useless—morally, culturally, and economically. By contrast, , The Social Value of Drug Addicts, (PDF) argues that the social construction of some people as impractical is in fact extremely useful to other people. Leading medical anthropologists J.

The previous 3 editions of BIOLOGY written by Dr. Rob Brooker, Eric Widmaier, Linda Graham, and Peter Stiling have reached hundreds and thousands of college and university students and provided them with an outstanding view of the biological world. Now Biology 4th edition (PDF) has gotten even better! The author

Through the Lens of Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture 2nd edition (PDF) is a well written and concise introduction to anthropology that uses the twin themes of sustainability and food to illustrate the connected nature of the discipline’s many subfields. Beautifully illustrated throughout, with more than 150

A Companion to Medical Anthropology (ePub/PDF) observes the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today. Written by prominent international scholars in medical anthropology Offers an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960s Includes environmental

Martin and Larkin’s Probiotics in Mental Health (PDF) explores the role of probiotics in a range of clinical presentations linked with significant psychopathology and enables a reassessment of how mental illness may be conceptualized within a coherent gut-brain model of health and wellbeing. Under the title of enhancing wellbeing rather