A History of Teaching Medical History in Medical Schools in Europe and America by In-sok YEO

“…Seeking productive cooperation with other humanities and social sciences that deal with medical issues, such as medical anthropology, medical sociology, and literature, will be a new task given to medical history today.…”
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Health, medicine and disease : among the barefoot doctors of Hangzhou by Fang, Xiaoping

“…In contrast to much of the existing scholarship in the field, which was based largely on written texts and archival documents, the fields of medical anthropology and sociology inspired me to develop a research methodology and theoretical framework from the perspective of historical anthropology. …”
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Anthropometry differences between younger and older Singaporeans by Low, Jacqueline May Lin.

“…Anthropometric studies play a major role in a wide variety of scientific and technical fields, such as in ergonomics, architecture, medical anthropology, industrial design and even in clothing design, where statistical data about the distribution of body dimensions in the human population are used to achieve effective design for high performance and productivity. …”
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Involuntary Civil Commitment for Substance Use Disorders in Puerto Rico: Neglected Rights Violations and Implications for Legal Reform by Caroline M. Parker, Oscar E. Miranda-Miller, Carmen Albizu-García

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Les expériences des pères d’enfants atteints de récidive de cancer by Naiara Barros Polita, Francine de Montigny, Chantal Verdon, Lucila Castanheira Nascimento

“…The way men deal with situations of childhood illness is influenced by social norms, beliefs, and cultural values. Therefore, medical anthropology and masculinities were chosen as theoretical frameworks of this study. …”
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Operationalizing the structural vulnerability profile within the medical examiner context by Caroline L. Znachko, Allysha Powanda Winburn, Meredith Frame, Sarah Maines

“…We apply theoretical frameworks from medical anthropology, public health, and social epidemiology to the context of medical examiner casework, highlighting the recently proposed Structural Vulnerability Profile developed and explored in other articles in this special issue. …”
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The State and Practice of African Traditional Medicine among the Ewe of Ghana: Contemporary Challenges and Prospects by Samuel Bewiadzi Akakpo

“…More significant is the fact that the study contributes to knowledge in the field of medical anthropology and Ewe ethno-medical history.…”
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Linking humans, their animals, and the environment again: a decolonized and more-than-human approach to “One Health” by Lainé Nicolas, Morand Serge

“…We show how considering anthropology and allied sub-disciplines (anthropology of nature, medical anthropology, and human-animal studies) highlights local knowledge on biodiversity as well as the way social scientists investigate diversity in relation to other forms of knowledge. …”
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Odontometric parameters in cases with mesognathic dental arches by E. G. Vedeshina, D. A. Domenyuk, S. V. Dmitrienko, D. S. Dmitrienko, L. V. Nalbandyan, N. F. Gagloyeva

“…There is evidence that identification of internal links between any components related to the structural and functional status of the organism rate among the most long-run objectives in medical anthropology.…”
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Social prescribing from the patient's perspective: A literature review by Kazuo Araki, Yoshimitsu Takahashi, Hiroshi Okada, Takeo Nakayama

“…This literature review critically evaluated SP from the patient's perspective through the lens of medical anthropology. The review was made with respect to the three key concepts: treatment evaluation, coproduction, and empowerment. …”
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Distinct and untamed: articulating bulimic identities by Eli, K

“…Yet, while anorexia has been analyzed extensively in medical anthropology, bulimia remains under-theorized. This is, perhaps, because, compared to self-starvation, binge eating presents a logic of practice that is difficult to reconcile with culturally reified notions of self-control, transcendence, and hard work. …”

Towards an ecology of AIDS: research on HIV/AIDS at Oxford

“…Thus, this initiative was taken within the programme for Medical Anthropology, which since its inception six years ago, has aimed to enhance understanding between the social and biological sciences within the medical field. …”

The resistance to mainstream assumptions about retribution in Job and Tobit as theologically positive deviance by Southwood, K

“…This article uses material from organizational studies and medical anthropology and sociology to address the value of the idea that bodily dysfunction or illness depart from a norm of health. …”

It Is Time to Strengthen the Malaria Control Policy of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Include Schools and School-Age Children in Malaria Control Measures by Sabin S. Nundu, Shirley V. Simpson, Hiroaki Arima, Jean-Jacques Muyembe, Toshihiro Mita, Steve Ahuka, Taro Yamamoto

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“There is nothing better than participating in this study”: Living the PAPAartis cardiovascular randomised controlled trial by Nuria Romo-Avilés, Johanna Fröhlich Zapata, Alena Keuneke, David Petroff, Christian D. Etz, David Epstein

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Potency-Enhancing Synthetics in the Drug Overdose Epidemic: Xylazine (“Tranq”), Fentanyl, Methamphetamine, and the Displacement of Heroin in Philadelphia and Tijuana by Fernando Montero, Philippe Bourgois, Joseph Friedman

“…The article combines economic and medical anthropology to develop an ethnographically-informed political economy approach to an urgent public health challenge among street-based drug users with the highest overdose mortality rates in the US Northeastern Rust Belt and the Northwestern Mexican borderland metroplex anchored by Tijuana. …”
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Jamu Cekok Components for Treating Children Have No Appetite: An Ethnomedicine Approach by Afiani Ika Limananti, Atik Triratnawati

“…Analysis data was descriptive using medical anthropology approach. The essential components of jamu cekok, called empon-empon are curcuma xanthorriza Robx (temulawak), Zingiber Americans l. …”
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Pain and its pain relief traditions: An anthropological inquiry in indigenous and ethnic knowledge of pain in Mukrian, Kurdistan by Loghman Shamsi, AbouAli Vedadhir, Hamidreza Farrokh-Eslamlou, Zohreh Anvari

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Marginalidad y otredad en Cataluña (siglos XIV-XVI) by Coral Cuadrada

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Ethnographic understandings of sexual and reproductive health and HIV care for adolescents in Blantyre, Malawi by Blessings N. Kaunda-Khangamwa, Alister Munthali, Lenore Manderson

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