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 …

The focus of this book is medicines (swallowed, injected, rubbed on), as understood by
anthropologists concerned solely with their social uses. The text begins with examples of a …

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 …

Medical anthropology has developed distinct and separate biological and cultural
approaches to the study of health and disease in human populations. Within cultural …

Medical practitioners and the ordinary citizen are becoming more aware that we need to
understand cultural variation in medical belief and practice. The more we know how health …

Recent discussion in critical medical anthropology has turned to the issue of application
beyond the academy. Building on Gorz's notion of “non‐reformist reform,” that is, applied …

Ethnographies of health systems are a theoretically rich and rapidly growing area within
medical anthropology. Critical ethnographic work dating back to the 1950s has taken …

In this review I will adopt the definition of medical anthropology that is used implicitly by
workers in the field. In this definition, neither concepts, methods, nor aims are criterial, but …

Today's era of globalization is characterized by intensified interspecies encounters, growing
ecological concerns and the (re-) emergence of infectious diseases, manifesting themselves …