The percentage of India's national budget allocated to the health sector remains one of the
lowest in the world, and healthcare expenditures are largely out-of-pocket (OOP). Currently …

For Americans experiencing illnesses and disabilities, crowdfunding has become a popular
strategy for addressing the extraordinary costs of health care. The political, social, and …

Each year, more and more Americans travel out of the country seeking low cost medical
treatments abroad, including fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). As the …

The convergence of increasingly efficient high-throughput genetic sequencing technology
and ubiquitous Internet use has fueled the proliferation of companies that provide direct-to …

Women's rights to legal abortion in the United States are now facing their greatest social and
legislative challenges since its 1973 legalization. Legislation restricting rights and access to …

In Unmanageable Care, anthropologist Jessica M. Mulligan goes to work at an HMO and
records what it's really like to manage care. Set at a health insurance company dubbed …

With rapid consolidation of American medicine into large‐scale corporations, corporate
strategies are coming to the forefront in health care delivery, requiring a dramatic increase in …

Abstract Under the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid Expansion programs are extending
Medicaid eligibility and increasing access to care. However, stigma associated with public …

The Devil's Fruit describes the facets of the strawberry industry as a harm industry, and
explores author Dvera Saxton's activist ethnographic work with farmworkers in response to …

This article introduces a special issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly on health
insurance and health reform. We begin by reviewing anthropological contributions to the …