In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist and informants? Having first published a more standard ethnographic study about Morocco, Rabinow here describes a series of encounters with his informants in that study, from a French innkeeper clinging to the vestiges of a colonial past, to ...

This international best-selling textbook provides an interdisciplinary review of the theories and research in cross-cultural psychology. These dynamic authors bring a diverse set of experiences in writing this text that provides cross-cultural perspectives on a wide range of applied topics.

This important book introduces the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to health promotion, detailing how policy making at all levels can foster the right conditions for better public health, but also examining the inherent challenges to such an overarching approach.

This book is an easy-to-read self-help guide for people facing cancer diagnosis and treatment. Following an effective Q&A format and based on a unique Wellbeing Essentials framework, it offers a valuable ‘dip in and out’ approach with signposting to evidence-based guidance on major challenges they may face.

This compelling collection of essays examines how historically significant marketing schemes have profoundly impacted women’s health and healthcare across the world, this book will find readers among students in Public Health, Allied Health, Gender Studies, Sociology and beyond.

This book explores the close connections between populism and conspiracy theory. It contributes to filling the gap in the research by providing in-depth analyses of specific configurations of populism and conspiracy theory, and nuanced considerations of more theoretical issues

Qualitative Research Writing: Credible and Trustworthy Writing from Beginning to End takes you through the writing process step by step, starting with how you think about your research, before you even consider writing. The authors offer practical guidance based on two decades working with faculty and doctoral students.

Counseling Individuals Through the Lifespan, Third Edition introduces students to the fundamentals of the counseling process during each stage of human development.

Leta Hong Fincher's landmark book Leftover Women shone a light on the resurgence of gender inequality in 21st-century China. Ten years on, women in China continue to experience a dramatic rolling back of rights and gains in the increasingly patriarchal political climate of the Xi Jinping era.

Leftover Women explores the structural discrimination against women and the broader problems with China's economy, politics, and development that lie behind them. This updated edition includes a new pre...

An indispensable guide for all ethnographers, Experimenting with Ethnography collects twenty-one essays that offer concrete suggestions for thinking about and doing ethnographic research and writing.