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Health Unbound: Anthropological Inquiries into Biomedicine, Politics and the Environment

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Health Unbound

Anthropological Inquiries into Biomedicine, Politics and the Environment

Janina Kehr and Ciara Kierans

298 pages, 7 figs, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80768-113-5 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (April 2027)

eISBN 978-1-80768-114-2 eBook


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"<p>This is a timely and important edited collection that sheds light on the changing ways in which health and environments are being considered and addressed by anthropology in the context of rapidly evolving and intersecting crises.</p>" — Sahra Gibbon, University College London

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Health Unbound assembles a collection of ethnographic studies on health-environment relations, illustrating how disease, harm and wellbeing emerge in novel ways as health becomes unbound from biomedical approaches. The authors discuss a range of topics including climatic medicine, medical pluralism, pesticides, air pollution, vernacular epidemiologies and medicinal foodways, writing from locations in Africa, Europe, Latin America and Asia. In doing so, they generate original insights into the variegated and troubled landscape of health and medicine today.

Janina Kehr is Professor of Medical Anthropology and Global Health at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna. She directs the research network Health in Society and the research group Health Matters, working on inequalities, colonial hauntings, moral economies and environmental effects of biomedicine and public health.

Ciara Kierans is Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark. She works at the intersections of health and environment and is Principal Investigator of FILTERSCAPE - Filtering Futures: Contaminant Flows, Landscape Governance and the Making of New Anthropological Knowledge for Planetary Health (ERC AdG 2025-2030).

Subject: Medical AnthropologyPolitical and Economic AnthropologySociology


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