The flow of international aid from wealthier to poorer countries has increased dramatically
over the last decade. This is attributable in part to the efforts of health activists, including …

16| Chapter 2 tion, the involvement of social scientists, particularly anthropologists, in
enabling and justifying the violence of colonialism, and the scientific racism that provided its …

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 …

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 …

I argue here that there is a need for medical anthropology to innovate conceptual and
methodological tools to work effectively within complex social spaces created by the …

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 …

A variety of shifts emergent with globalization, which are reflected in part by nascent
programs in “Global Public Health,”“Global Health Sciences,” and “Global Health,” are …

This essay summarizes and responds to the Think Pieces gathered here through the lens of
critical global health. I ask: What does global health offer that differs from the international …

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 …

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 …