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  • Health and Ethnicity

    Edited by Helen Macbeth, Prakash Shetty ...
    In modern multicultural societies, the topic of 'health and ethnicity' has become increasingly recognised as highly relevant. All too frequently, academic coverage of the topic has been scattered in specialist literature of different disciplines; a book bringing these perspectives together has so far been lacking.The aim of the book is to explain the diversity in health experience due to ... Read more

    $142.90 CAD

  • Pure Food

    Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by Paul Collinson, Helen Macbeth ...
    Series Book 12 - Anthropology of Food & Nutrition
    In presenting a variety of theoretical and cross-cultural perspectives on pure food, this volume demonstrates similarities and variations in cultural beliefs, behaviours and practices in different societies. These in turn highlight that pure food is a common issue for humanity, whatever the society, whatever the era. As a subject with much contemporary and cross-disciplinary relevance, Pure Food ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Consuming the Inedible

    Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice

    Edited by Jeremy M. MacClancy, Jeya Henry, Helen Macbeth ...
    Series Book 6 - Anthropology of Food & Nutrition
    Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Contributors, utilizing anthropological, nutritional, biochemical, psychological and health-related perspectives, examine in a rigorously comparative manner the consumption of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Food in Zones of Conflict

    Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Paul Collinson, Helen Macbeth ...
    Series Book 8 - Anthropology of Food & Nutrition
    The availability of food is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict because conflict nearly always impinges on the production and the distribution of food, and causes increased competition for food, land and resources Controlling the production of and access to food can also be used as a weapon by protagonists in conflict. The logistics of supply of food to military personnel ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century

    Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Paul Collinson, Iain Young, Lucy Antal, Helen Macbeth ...
    Series Book 9 - Anthropology of Food & Nutrition
    Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from international scholars working in social, cultural and biological anthropology, ecology and environmental biology, this volume brings many new perspectives to the problems we face. Its cross-disciplinary framework of chapters with local, regional and continental perspectives ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Liquid Bread

    Beer and Brewing in Cross-Cultural Perspective

    Edited by Wulf Schiefenhövel, Helen Macbeth ...
    Series Book 7 - Anthropology of Food & Nutrition
    “This important volume sheds new light on the social, political, and economic role of beer in society.... Highly Recommended.”—ChoiceA Choice Outstanding Academic Book of The Year 2011Winner of the 2011 Gourmand World Cookbook UK AwardBeer is an ancient alcoholic drink which, although produced through a more complex process than wine, was developed by a wide range of cultures to become ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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    by Kaye Wellings, Larry Bencze, Erminia Pedretti ...
    This key textbook provides a firm grounding in theoretical and practical aspects of the study of sexual health for both undergraduates and post-graduates. ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Epidemiology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Rodolfo Saracci ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is epidemiology? What are the causes of a new disease? How can pandemics be prevented? Epidemiology is the study of the changing patterns of disease and its main aim is to improve the health of populations. It's a vital field, central to the health of society, to the identification of causes of disease, and to their management and prevention. Epidemiology has had an impact on many areas of ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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  • Ultra-Processed People

    Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food

    by Chris van Tulleken ...
    **THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION • The bestselling and eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and impact of ultra-processed food.With a new Afterword by the author.Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR • The Economist • The Times • The New Yorker • Smithsonian • Daily Mail • The Guardian • Financial Times • and more! ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Social Determinants of Health

    Edited by Michael Marmot, Richard Wilkinson ...
    Social Determinants of Health, 2nd Edition gives an authoritative overview of the social and economic factors which are known to be the most powerful determinants of population health in modern societies. Written by acknowledged experts in each field, it provides accessible summaries of the scientific justification for isolating different aspects of social and economic life as the primary ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Eating to Extinction

    The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

    by Dan Saladino ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice**What Saladino finds in his adventures are people with soul-deep relationships to their food. This is not the decadence or the preciousness we might associate with a word like “foodie,” but a form of reverence . . . Enchanting." —Molly Young, The New York TimesDan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Rose's Strategy of Preventive Medicine

    by Geoffrey Rose ...
    The Strategy of Preventive Medicine, by Geoffrey Rose, first published in 1993 remains a key text for anyone involved in preventive medicine. Rose's insights into the inextricable relationship between ill health, or deviance, in individuals and populations they come from, have transformed our whole approach to strategies for improving health. His personal and unique book, based on many years ... Read more

    $50.59 CAD