… This brings us to medical anthropology per se, a field of knowledge … as Social Science &
Medicine, Medical Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Anthropology & Medicine, …

… subject matter of medical anthropology—human health… social and cultural factors associated
with blood pressure, and I point to other examples of this synthesis in medical anthropology. …

… a bridge between social science and medicine, and what is new is the awareness of some
of their social dimensions by MD's, and the use of social scientists in medical and epidemio…

… medical anthropology andepidemiology is important to contemporary health research because
both fieldsaddress biological, social… relevance of social science theoryto epidemiological …

… to medicine and also of interest to social scientists … to medicine and social science. Each
chapter reviews in depth a facet of stress that has relevance for the study of disease in social …

… tious now seems to me too limiting to the scope of anthropology … In this paper, I argue
that the medical anthropologist … the making social of disease, and in the more general concepts …

… that is concerned with the application of anthropological and social science theories and …
premise that social forces and relations infuse medical anthropologist’s field. When these social …

… ) as a body politic, an artifact of social and political control. After discussing ways in which
anthropologists, other social scientists, and people from various cultures have conceptualized …

… social anthropology and sociology? Although the similarities and differences between
medical anthropology and medical … of the biological sciences, the social sciences, and the …

… of the anthropologist was to help medical personnel find ways to demonstrate the superiority
of scientific medicine, … into the first one, the illnesses routinely brought to the medical doctor. …