Medical Anthropology Quarterly: International Journal for the Analysis of Health publishes research and theory in the field of medical anthropology. This field is broadly taken to include all ...

From global health to human adaptation and disease, our program covers a broad range of subjects to equip you for the diverse field of medical anthropology. You’ll work closely with our faculty—which ...

Psychiatrist and anthropologist interested in how science and personal experiences might inform one another ...

Benjamin David Paul, a Stanford University professor whom many consider the founding father of medical anthropology, has died. He was 94. Paul died May 24 in Atlanta from complications after a ...

Medical Anthropology is an interdisciplinary field that examines the multifaceted relationships between health, illness and culture. Researchers in this discipline engage in in‐depth qualitative ...

The combined BA/MA in anthropology-medical anthropology concentration program is an accelerated five-year track for students interested in pursuing careers in the health professions requiring an ...

As a student in our MA in Medical Anthropology and Global Health program, you and a small cohort of classmates will dive into topics such as contemporary anthropology theory, ethnographic and ...

Anthropology at WMU provides students with the tools to critically examine cultural and biological change, social inequality, and human diversity. Through engaging coursework, field experiences, and ...

Robin Bernstein and Dennis Van Gerven served as invaluable consultants to Gabriela Sheets in her dissertation research on The Developmental Ecology of the Infant Gut Microbiome. The SMA Dissertation ...

Archaeology Field School student Izzie Guerrero excavates a 9,000-year-old archaeological site at 12,600 feet in the Andes Mountains of Peru. (Randy Haas/UC Davis) When people think about anthropology ...

The MA degree program includes 30 credit hours of Anthropology coursework, completion of first-year student requirements and a master’s project paper. A minimum 24 credit hours must be taken in ...

Health and well-being are often studied at the individual patient level, and recent efforts have focused on the effect of the physical environment in health. However, most medical studies pay little ...