Thirty years since its first public use in 1980, the phrase structural adjustment remains
obscure for many anthropologists and public health workers. However, structural adjustment …

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 …

COOKING DATA is an ethnographic study of how demographic data is collected, handled,
processed, and manipulated by fieldworkers, researchers, policymakers, and NGOs in …

Power is a growing area of study for researchers and practitioners working in the field of
health policy and systems research (HPSR). Theoretical development and empirical …

Countries in sub-Saharan Africa were once dismissed by Western experts as being too poor
and chaotic to benefit from the antiretroviral drugs that transformed the AIDS epidemic in the …

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 …

In this lesson-packed book, Mark Nichter, one of the world's leading medical
anthropologists, summarizes what more than a quarter-century of health social science …

Based on an ethnography of the international Safe Motherhood Initiative (SMI), this article
charts the rise of evidence‐based advocacy (EBA), a term global‐level maternal health …

Indigenous populations worldwide are experiencing social, cultural, demographic,
nutritional, and psychoemotional changes that have a profound impact on health …

The global response to infectious diseases has seen a renewed interest in the use of
community engagement to support research and relief efforts. From a perspective rooted in …