How Climate Knowledge Made the Nineteenth-Century US South
Elaine LaFay
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512830279
Pub Date: November 2026
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
How could a place be at once a life-giving paradise and sinister threat to health? In Debility and Power, Elaine LaFay answers this question by exploring the powerful and surprising role of debility in the nineteenth-century US South and by showing how imperial actors weaponized weakness and fragility to control both land and people.
For thirty-five years Caring for Patients from Different Cultures has been a vital healthcare resource for understanding cultural differences and how to best address them. The timely updates in this sixth edition reinforce its position as an invaluable guide to what can go wrong when cultures clash—and how to make things right.
Tacit Textuality is an ethnography about the practice of kombe in Zanzibar, in which Qurʾanic verses are liquefied and consumed as medicine across religious divides. Hanna Nieber investigates three foci: kombe’smateriality, its social context that includes interreligious relations, and how the materiality of the book becomes part of the story.
Edited by Alexa S. Dietrich, Scott Gabriel Knowles and Rodrigo Ugarte
Contributions by Joie Acosta, George Aumoithe, Tanya Buhler Corbin, Anirban Kapil Baishya, Jih-Fei Cheng, Moon Choi, Vivian Choi, Nishaant Choksi, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Sukanya Deogam, Kim Fortun, Alice Fothergill, Danya Glabau, Monica H. Green, Dolly Jørgensen, Dani Joslyn, Christine Keeves, Hyunah Keum, Christos Lynteris, Rachel Margolis, Katherine A. Mason, Tyesha Maddox, Luke J. Matthews, Darshana Sreedhar Mini, Samantha Montano, Courtney Page-Tan, Hyeonbin Park, Lori Peek, Elisa Perego, Rashawn Ray, Kalpesh Rathwa, Monica Sanders, Amanda Savitt, Sarah Senk, Robert Soden, Jacob Steere-Williams, Cécile Stephanie Stehrenberger, Kathleen Tierney, Kristin Urquiza, Ashton M. Verdery, Carlos Villegas, Haowei Wang, Jacqueline Wernimont, Sarah S. Willen, Heather M. Wurtz, Myungji Yang and Carl A. Zimring
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512829495
Pub Date: July 2026
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
COVID Studies is a “state of the field” collection of essays that presents the latest research on the pandemic. Examining the pandemic as a process that was shaped by longer histories of what came before it and that continues to make new realities in the present, the contributors suggest that we are still researching and writing from inside the disaster.
A sweeping, thought-provoking exploration of how humans, as a species and as individuals, think about the world and themselves, How We Think takes the anthropological view about the human thought process, while focusing on what makes humans so different from each other although we are also universally so much alike.
Undoing Slavery excavates medical and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Facing many challenges to their goal of restoring embodied self-sovereignty to the enslaved, abolitionists learned that legal rights alone, while necessary, were not sufficient either to protect or heal the bodies of African-descended people from the consequences of slavery and racism.
Patients and Healers Across Traditional, Islamic, and Biomedical Health Sectors of Niger
Scott Youngstedt
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512828825
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
Negotiating Mistrust examines a wide diversity of patients and healers—and interactions between them—in Niamey, Niger through the analytical prism of mistrust. Author Scott M. Youngstedt offers a holistic study of the medical landscape in Niamey by focusing on the intersections between three medical sectors: traditional, Islamic, and biomedical.
Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting traces the history of what was considered a good, normal, or healthy voice in the nineteenth century. From parrots and preachers to stammerers and singers, the book delves not only into changing medical norms and musical ideals but also into the sometimes painful and awkward daily work of having a voice.
By analyzing ethnographic interviews with the youth of Aotearoa/New Zealand, Susanna Trnka reveals the emotional, financial, and deeply personal ideas at stake as understandings of health shift in the minds of young people, who are often at the vanguard of new trends in mental health, physical fitness, and digital health technologies.
The Science of the Body in Early Modern Women’s Poetry
Whitney Sperrazza
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512827590
Pub Date: June 2025
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Anatomical Forms excavates the shared material practices of women’s poetic work and anatomical study in early modern England. Whitney Sperrazza demonstrates how women writers such as Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter wielded poetics as a tool for scientific work in order to explore and challenge rapid developments in anatomy and physiology.
