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Tourists and Tourism (1997)
Book Chapter
Abram, S., & Waldren, J. (1997). Tourists and Tourism. In S. Abram, J. Waldren, & D. Macleod (Eds.), Tourists and Tourism: Identifying with People and Places (1-12). Berg

Public participation and the problem of exclusion. (2008)
Book Chapter
Abram, S. (2008). Public participation and the problem of exclusion. In C. Garston, & M. Lindh de Montoya (Eds.), Transparency in a New Global Order (201-222). Edward Elgar Publishing

Children’s rights, mobility and transport in Ghana: access to education and health services (2011)
Book Chapter
Porter, G., Abane, A., Blaufuss, K., & Owusu Acheampong, F. (2011). Children’s rights, mobility and transport in Ghana: access to education and health services. In R. K. Ame, D. L. Agbényiga, & N. A. Apt (Eds.), Children’s rights in Ghana : reality or rhetoric ? (113-128). Lexington Books

Children’s physical mobility and access to transport is an issue commonly overlooked in the child rights context. However, the opportunity to be mobile, in order to access health and basic education services not available in close vicinity to the chi... Read More about Children’s rights, mobility and transport in Ghana: access to education and health services.

Seasonality, climatic unpredictability, food deprivation and polycystic ovary syndrome (2008)
Book Chapter
Shaw, L., & Elton, S. (2008). Seasonality, climatic unpredictability, food deprivation and polycystic ovary syndrome. In S. Elton, & P. O’Higgins (Eds.), Medicine and evolution : current applications, future prospects (77-97). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420051377.ch5

Stein and Leventhal’s finding of polycystic ovaries, which they eponymously described as part of a circumscribed clinical syndrome [1], has evolved to become a nebulous entity with polycystic ovaries as a prominent component. Biochemical aspects, bot... Read More about Seasonality, climatic unpredictability, food deprivation and polycystic ovary syndrome.

Child Well-Being: Anthropological Perspectives. (2014)
Book Chapter
Stevenson, E., & Worthman, C. (2014). Child Well-Being: Anthropological Perspectives. In A. Ben-Arieh, F. Casas, I. Frønes, & J. Korbin (Eds.), Handbook of Child Well-Being: Theories, Methods and Policies in Global Perspective (485-512). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9063-8_20

A major contribution of anthropological approaches to child well-being is that they address variation across a wide range of cultures and settings. This broad perspective is necessary because cultures vary widely both in care practices and in definit... Read More about Child Well-Being: Anthropological Perspectives..