Julio Tello as a medical anthropologist: assessing the antiquity of syphilis in ancient Peru by Christian Mesía-Montenegro

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The Medical Anthropologist as the Patient: Developing Research Questions on Hospital Food in Japan through Auto-Ethnography by Pamela Lynn Runestad

“…In this essay I argue that medical anthropologists working from a phenomenological perspective may regard their own bodies as assets rather than hindrances in research, and that because bodies are gendered, focusing on this facet of habitus can be particularly informative. …”
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Global Social Medicine for an Equitable and Just Future by Carlos Piñones-Rivera, Ángel Martínez-Hernáez, Michelle E. Morse, Kavya Nambiar, Joel Ferrall, Seth M. Holmes

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Paul Farmer : élaboration d’une représentation collective du sida en zone rurale d’Haïti au prisme du contexte historique et géopolitique haïtien (1983-1990) by Dolorès Pourette

“…Paul Farmer, a physician and medical anthropologist, highlights how local experiences and interpretations of AIDS, the subjective experience of the disease, and the discursive practices around AIDS are are profoundly affected by the sociohistorical and geopolitical context of the region, especially relations with the Hatian capital and the United States. …”
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Paul Farmer: A Model for the Theologian by Jorge Ferrer

“…Paul Farmer was a physician, medical anthropologist, and social justice activist. Although influenced by theology of liberation, he was not a professional theologian. …”
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Development and clinical feasibility testing of the Pain Treatment Planning Questionnaire by Tupper Susan M, Nilson JoAnn, King Jennifer, Downe Pamela, Hodgson Nancy, Schlosser Tara, Brose Kelsey

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Disability Justice as Part of Structural Competency: Infra/structures of Deafness, Cochlear Implantation, and Re/habilitation in India by Michele Friedner

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Advancing inclusive and democratic medical pluralism in Nepal by Bamdev Subedi

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Narratives of Personhood and Caregiving in Ontario Long-Term Care Homes During COVID-19 by Ellen Badone

“…At its best, caregiving is a two-way street, enabling the maintenance of personhood for the care recipient, and validating the caregiver’s sense of ‘moral agency,’ or what medical anthropologist Neely Myers (2015, 13) defines as the capacity to be recognized in one’s local sphere as a good person who can make intimate connections to others. …”
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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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Syndemic: A Synergistic Anthropological Approach to the COVID-19 Pandemic by Giuseppe Calcaterra, Pier Paolo Bassareo, Francesco Barilla, Francesco Romeo, Cesare de Gregorio, Paulette Mehta, Jawahar L. Mehta

“…The term “syndemic” was originally developed by the medical anthropologist Merrill Singer in the 1990s in order to recognize the correlation between HIV/AIDS, illicit drug use, and violence in the United States. …”
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Unraveling implementation context: the Basel Approach for coNtextual ANAlysis (BANANA) in implementation science and its application in the SMILe project by Juliane Mielke, Lynn Leppla, Sabine Valenta, Leah L. Zullig, Franziska Zúñiga, Sandra Staudacher, Alexandra Teynor, Sabina De Geest

“…Based on a literature review, BANANA was developed in ten discussion sessions with implementation science experts and a medical anthropologist to guide the SMILe project’s contextual analysis. …”
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Health in Context: COVID-19 Pandemic by Syed Muhammad Imran Majeed, Rehma Ahsan Gilani

“…Thus, COVID -19 is not just an epidemic10 but syndemic, a term coined by Merrill Singer, an American medical anthropologist. It is a synergistic epidemic characterized by aggregation of two or more concurrent disease clusters that adversely interact and affect each disease trajectory, resulting in an exacerbation of the prognosis and burden of disease.11 It appears that SARS CoV-2 patients in older age group, with chronic comorbidities like diabetes mellitus and hypertension and belonging to less advantage social strata racial and ethnic minorities, tend to suffer with more severe multisystem inflammatory syndrome. …”
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Wat levert een training voor voedselbankklanten op? Bevindingen uit een kwalitatieve studie by Hille Hoogland, Dorien Mul

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Ervaringen van schaamte en psychologisch lijden door voedselbankklanten by Hille Hoogland, Jonathan Berg

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Do No Cultural Harm by Derek Ayeh

“…Byron Good, another medical anthropologist, has a simple answer for why this happens. …”
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Social and cultural efficacies of medicines: Complications for antiretroviral therapy by Hardon Anita, van der Geest Sjaak

“…The authors are medical anthropologists specialised in the social and cultural analysis of pharmaceuticals.…”
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Les nouveaux défis pour l’anthropologie de la santé by Raymond Massé

“…In order to strengthen its leadership and to increase its credibility in dealing with new emerging research objects, medical anthropologists will have to accept many challenges, conceptual, theoretical, but especially methodological. …”
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Culture of vaccine acceptability or resistance: The curious case of Chile’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout and anthropology’s role in increasing vaccination uptake by Inayat Ali

“…For that, the countries lagging need to engage (medical) anthropologists as they are the culturologists.…”
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Durkheim’s effervescence and its Maussian afterlife in medical anthropology by Hsu, E

“…These insights have traction for medical anthropologists who are interested in finding an anthropological explanation for the efficaciousness of ‘traditional’ medicines or ‘indigenous’ healing techniques.…”