The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction and overview to the critical perspective
as it has evolved in medical anthropology over the last ten years. Standing as an opposition …

Now in its fourth edition, Exploring Medical Anthropology provides a concise and engaging
introduction to medical anthropology. It presents competing theoretical perspectives in a …

One of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his
recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essays. Arthur Kleinman, an anthropologist …

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 …

This article addresses anthropology's engagement with the emerging discipline of global
health. We develop a definition for global health and then present four principal …

Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on
foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior theory. It shows how to address …

▪ Abstract Anthropological approaches broaden and deepen our understanding of the
finding that high levels of socioeconomic inequality correlate with worsened health …

In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors
Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the …

These original essays, which combine theoretical argument with empirical observation,
constitute a state-of-the-art platform for future research in medical anthropology. Ranging in …