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Medical Anthropology Quarterly

International Journal for the Analysis of Health

Published by the American Anthropological Association on behalf of the Society for Medical Anthropology

Edited by:
Dr. Mark Luborsky and Dr. Andrea Sankar


ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 22/61 Anthropology; 20/29 Social Sciences, Biomedical
Impact Factor: 0.881


Medical Anthropology Quarterly publishes research and theory in the field of medical anthropology. Addressing the broad subject of health and disease in human individuals and populations from a holistic and cross-cultural perspective, Medical Anthropology Quarterly explores the relationships of medical anthropology to both health practice and the parent discipline of anthropology.

TopNews and Announcements

Medical Anthropology Quarterly is one of more than 20 publications featured in AnthroSource, the American Anthropological Association's online portal serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Click here to learn more about AnthroSource!

Medical Anthropology Quarterly is included in the INASP, HINARI and OARE programs. As a part of these initiatives, the journal is available (for free or at very low cost) in more than 100 developing world countries.

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TopHighlights

Read the most downloaded articles in 2009 from Medical Anthropology Quarterly:

On Recognition, Caring, and Dementia
Janelle S. Taylor

What Can Critical Medical Anthropology Contribute to Global Health?
James Pfeiffer, Mark Nichter

Genital Cutting and Western Discourses on Sexuality
Kirsten Bell

Health Identities and Subjectivities
Susan Reynolds Whyte

Race, Ethnicity, and Racism in Medical Anthropology, 1977-2002
Clarence C. Gravlee, Elizabeth Sweet

Defining Women's Health: A Dozen Messages from More than 150 Ethnographies
Marcia C. Inhorn

Syndemics and Public Health: Reconceptualizing Disease in Bio-Social Context
Merill Singer, Scott Clair

Being Anorexic
Sigal Gooldin

Sexuality Issues in the Movement to Abolish Female Genital Cutting in Sudan
Ellen Gruenbaum

The Story Catches You and You Fall Down: Tragedy, Ethnography, and ''Cultural Competence"
Janelle S. Taylor