Books

Monica Konrad has extensive experience doing grant-funded fieldwork in the UK, Europe and Southeast Asia, across diverse sites. Ranging from treatment settings with patients, healers and other knowledge holders to global health agencies and medical charities supporting refugees and vulnerable communities.

Her books and publications address cultural ideas about the human body; health and cross-cultural healing practices; narrative ethnography and the realities of lived, embodied experiences.

Nameless Relations
A clinic-based ethnography exploring women’s lived experiences of infertility treatments.

“a work of ethnographic and analytical excellence”
Reviews in Anthropology

Collaborators Collaborating
Health practitioners and ethnographers reflect on collaborative processes across diverse projects, countries and continents.

“…succeeds in catalyzing what is undoubtedly one of the most salient debates within 21st-century anthropology. The rich ethnographic chapters provide readers with food for thinking through the changes – from participation to collaboration, from informants to interlocutors – that are both the object of study for contributors and the imperatives that they are confronted with.”
Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale

Narrating the New Predictive Genetics
How does the promise of so-called ‘predictive medicine’ affect the hearts and minds of people living with inherited illnesses? Focusing on the experiences of families affected by Huntington’s disease, this book explores some of the dilemmas people have faced.

“An original and important contribution to current scholarship…”
“Refreshingly self-reflexive…shows how individuals and families really respond to genetic information, rather than assumptions about what their reactions will or ought to be”
Canadian Journal of Sociology Online