Medical+Anthropology+Overview

What is Medical Anthropology
Medical Anthropology is a subfield of social and cultural anthropology.


 * Events:**
 * 1976**
 * The Conference on "Theory in Medical Anthropology"** (National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., Nov. 20-22, 1976). Arthur Kleinman presented the paper, "Concepts and a Model for the Comparison of Medical Systems as Cultural Systems."

Biocultural anthropology (link: [|Wikipedia])
 * Influential strands:**

Journals
//**Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry**//
 * This journal is an international and interdisciplinary forum for the publication of work in the fields of medical and psychiatric anthropology, cross-cultural psychiatry, and associated cross-societal and clinical epidemiological studies. [line: [|publisher]]
 * Previously edited by Arthur Kleinman, Byron Good, and Mary-Jo Good, Harvard University. Since 2007, it have been edited by Atwood Gaines, Case Western Reserve.
 * //Medical Anthropology Quarterly//**
 * This journal It is an international journal for the analysis of health publishes research and theory in the field of medical anthropology. Journal of Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA). [link: [|SMA]]
 * //Medical Anthropology//**
 * This journal is dedicated to publishing papers that examine human behavior, social life and health in an anthropological context. [link: [|publisher]]
 * Originally a University of Connecticut journal
 * //Social Science and Medicine//**
 * This journal provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the dissemination of social science research on health. [link: [|publisher]]
 * Scottish and British run journal but when medical anthropology became one section it was edited for years since 1976 by American anthropologist, Charles Leslie.
 * //Sante et Medicine//**
 * French Canadian journal of the University of Montreal, edited by Gilles Bibeau et al.
 * //AM. Rivista Italiana di Antropologia Medica// **
 * Journal of the Italian Society for Medical Anthropology
 * //Ethnomedizin//**
 * a German journal of medical anthropology

Institutes/Organizations

 * Society for Medical Anthropology**: a section of the American Anthropological Association [link: http://www.medanthro.net/]

Somatoshere: http://somatosphere.net
 * Blogs**

Interview with Alan Harwood [link: sound record]

Interesting sources
Wiki sites
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_anthropology
 * http://medanth.wikispaces.com/ [link as "medanth" in this Wiki] a wikispace about medical anthropology created by students and faculties at University of South Florida.