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 …

The Anthropology of Health and Healing provides the first holistic approach to the study of
medical anthropology. Over the past two decades, medical anthropology has been the most …

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 …

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 …

The third edition of Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action, provides
students with a first exposure to the growing field of medical and health anthropology. The …

A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities brings
together articles from the key theoretical approaches in the field of medical anthropology as …

In this important collection, prominent scholars who helped to establish medical
anthropology as an area of study reflect on the field's past, present, and future. In doing so …

The study of health disparities has emerged as an important theme in public health and the
social sciences, and efforts to eliminate health disparities are a major thrust of governments …

BACKGROUND Since its inception, medical anthropology has had an applied orientation;
much of the work done by medical anthropologists is concerned with understanding and …

Human health and well being is biocultural. Thus, it might be expected that biocultural
perspectives on health, ones that consider the many imbrications, linkages, and …