Both public health experts and medical anthropologists are concerned with how health is
shaped by environmental forces. This creates an important cross‐disciplinary alliance, yet …

The concept of the social determinants of health has become increasingly accepted and
mainstream in anglophone public health over the past three decades. Moreover, it has been …

Background Focus on “social determinants of health” provides a welcome alternative to the
bio-medical illness paradigm. However, the tendency to concentrate on the influence of “risk …

The biomedical and public health sciences have established a clear warrant for their
existence. A warrant is a broadly shared justification for a research-based discipline (Katz …

The field of public health has increasingly promoted a social ecological approach to health,
shifting from an individual, biomedical paradigm to a recognition of social and structural …

In 1946, the newly formed World Health Organization boldly sought to conceptualize “health”
as wellbeing in the positive sense,“not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” Yet nearly …

Many serious public health problems confront the world in the new millennium.
Anthropology and Public Health examines the critical role of anthropology in four crucial …

Conceptually and methodologically, medical anthropology is well-positioned to support a
“big-tent” research agenda on health and society. It fosters approaches to social and …

Now in its third edition, this textbook serves to frame understandings of health, health-related
behavior, and health care in light of social and health inequality as well as structural …

From public health luminary Nancy Krieger comes a revolutionary way of addressing health
justice and the embodied truths of lived experience. Since the 1700s, fierce debates in …