Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing papers that situate the relationship between human behavior, social life, and health within an anthropological context. It provides a forum for inquiring into how knowledge, meaning, livelihood, power, and resource distribution are shaped and how, in turn, these phenomena go on to shape patterns of disease, experiences of health and illness, and the organization of treatments. We welcome papers that focus on empirical research as well as those that focus on methodological and theoretical issues.
Announcements
Ferzacca’s Term as Editor to End December 31, 2009 |
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| As the 2009 calendar comes to an end so will my term as editor of Medical Anthropology. The transition from my editorial office to Dr. Lenore Manderon’s, the incoming editor who begins with the new year, has been a smooth one. |
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Medical Anthropology Names New Editor |
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| Routledge, an international leader in publishing, is pleased to announce Dr. Lenore Manderson as the new editor for Medical Anthropology Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness. Dr. Lenore Manderson, Professor of Medical Anthropology at Monash University in Victoria, Australia, will begin her term in January 2010. Manderson replaces Dr. Steve Ferzacca of the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, who has held the position the last three years. Under Ferzacca's leadership, the journal has grown and is one of the leading voices in the growing field of medical anthropology. |
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August 2009 issue is now available |
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| The August 2009 issue of Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness is now available. This issue includes three editorials on Influenza A:H1N1 (the so-called "Swine Flu") as well as research articles on the contrasting perspectives of patients and receptionists and the different ways they experience waiting rooms in three U.S. medical clinics; an Ayurvedic doctor from Nepal; HIV risk narratives in South Africa; and the ways Caribbean meanings of ethnicity and illness are reworked as Barbadian state medical practitioners become involved in facilitating the international genetics research on race and disease. | More... |
May 2009 issue now available |
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| The May 2009 issue of Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness is now available. This is a special issue on Globalizing Chinese Medicine and is guest-edited by Gunnar Stollberg and Elisabeth Hsu. | More... |
February 2009 issue now available |
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| The February 2009 issue of Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness is now available. Highlights include an editorial on the ethics of intimacy, kin, and confinement in global psychiatry by Sarah Pinto; and research articles on narcolepsy; the scientific-industrial networking of Korean medicine; labor, social exclusion, and chronic muscular illness; and teaching AIDS science on the front line. | More... |
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