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 …

The major aim of this chapter is to stimulate scholarship in the area of place and health,
specifically examining how American Indian and Alaska Natives'(AIAN) health outcomes can …

This paper considers how the full range of human experience may catalyze a placebo
response. The placebo effect has been characterized as something to control in clinical …

In this introduction, we propose the notion of 'embodied belonging'as a fruitful analytical
heuristic for scholars in medical and psychological anthropology. We envision this notion to …

This article supports the call for the sensorially engaged anthropological study of healing
modalities, popular health culture, dietary practices, drug foods and pharmaceuticals, and …

US farmworkers include growing numbers of individuals from indigenous, pre-Columbian
communities in southern Mexico with distinctive languages and cultures. Given the high …

The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology provides a contemporary overview of the
key themes in medical anthropology. In this exciting departure from conventional …

The symptomatology for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) narrowly focuses on
particular diagnostic frames and a single triggering event. Such narrow definitions of trauma …

At a time of uncertainty and change in Oaxaca, Mexico, mental-health practice dovetails with
political-economic projects to reflect and produce tensions around “culture.” Promoting …

Patients of Venezuelan state clinics ascribe meanings to doctor–patient interactions that
reverberate beyond the immediacy of the clinical encounter to shape political subjectivities …