Against the background of debates about expanding HIV testing and counseling, we
summarize the evidence on the social and behavioral dimension of testing and its …

In the domain of health, not only are the raw effects of economic, social, and medical
inequalities continually devastating, but novel processes of reconfiguring illness experience …

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Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played
around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot …

On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet
Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of …

Biocapital is a major theoretical contribution to science studies and political economy.
Grounding his analysis in a multi-sited ethnography of genomic research and drug …

If I drive two miles down the road that takes me to the supermarkets and retail shops of the
midwestern town where I grew up, I will pass the local branch of Across-the-Globe-Research …

Will to Live tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to
universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies--a breakthrough made possible by an …

This innovative volume is an extended intellectual conversation about the ways personal
lives are being undone and remade today. Examining the ethnography of the modern …

In this lesson-packed book, Mark Nichter, one of the world's leading medical
anthropologists, summarizes what more than a quarter-century of health social science …