Book Review: OCCUPIED AFGHAN WOMEN'S LIVES: MULTIPLE EXPERIENCES, MULTIPLE CONSCIOUSNESSES Elaheh Rostami Povey Afghan Women: Identity and Invasion London: Zed Books, 2007, 159 pp., ISBN 978-1-84277-855-5

Nathan Sivin, Health Care in Eleventh-Century China (Cham, Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht, London: Springer, 2015), pp. xvii, 223, $119, e-book, ISBN: 978-3-319-20427-7; $159, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-319-20426-0.

The history of medicine in China is often studied through the lens of a textual approach, grounded on classical manuals or on the accounts of practitioners who, until fairly recently, were mostly involved with curing the ailments of the upper class. As such, the ‘other’ types of response to illness, namely the folk therapy, religious rites and other magical treatments tend to be left outside th...

Afghan people risk their lives to obtain health care: MSF.

Book Review: “Bagchi D., Swaroop A. (2017). Food Toxicology. CRC Press, Boca Raton. ISBN: 978-1-4987-0874-6”

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Afghan genetic mysteries.

Letter To The Editor This open access article is available in Human Biology: http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol/vol83/iss6/10 Letter to the Editor Afghan Genetic Mysteries I am a cultural anthropologist, and I have focused a large part of my research on Afghanistan populations. To my surprise, and despite the international attention given to this country in the last three decades, I have n...

Uptake and predictors of contraceptive use in Afghan women

BACKGROUND Afghanistan has one of the world's highest fertility rates and, related to this, an infant mortality rate far higher than its South Asian neighbors. Contraception enhances family spacing, improves women's safety in child birth and, as a result, reduces infant and child mortality. Until recently, there has been a paucity of information on the comparative rates of contraceptive practic...