Medical Anthropology
Overview
Medical Anthropology is a scholarly journal that explores the intersection of anthropology and medicine, focusing on the cultural, social, and political aspects of health and healthcare. It publishes research articles, case studies, and theoretical discussions, providing valuable insights into the diverse ways in which societies understand, experience, and respond to health and illness.
Details
Details
Abbr.
Med Anthropol
Start
1977
End
Continuing
Frequency
Quarterly
p-ISSN
0145-9740
e-ISSN
1545-5882
Country
United States
Language
English
Specialty
Social Sciences
Metrics
Metrics
h-index / Ranks: 7207
51
SJR / Ranks: 6254
705
CiteScore / Ranks: 5824
4.50
Recent Articles
1.
Daly L
Med Anthropol
. 2025 Mar;
:1-15.
PMID: 40079123
This article concerns vernacular practices of "self-help" among the indigenous Makushi people of Amazonian Guyana. Contrasted with "Western" self-care, the article examines , a traditional system of communal work grounded...
2.
Cogburn M
Med Anthropol
. 2025 Mar;
:1-15.
PMID: 40065598
Today in rural Tanzania, nurses instruct pregnant women to go to maternity waiting homes (MWH), spaces of surveillance-care, long before due dates. Envisioned as a place risk in policies of...
3.
Chen S
Med Anthropol
. 2025 Mar;
:1-14.
PMID: 40050223
Based on an ethnography of a Chinese village, this article examines the re-stigmatization of recovered COVID-19 patients in China's COVID-19 response between 2020 and 2022. I show that distrust in...
4.
Rajtar M
Med Anthropol
. 2025 Mar;
:1-16.
PMID: 40050136
Sensations have emerged as an increasingly important topic in anthropological studies of health and disease. In this article, I draw from ethnographic research conducted among people living with selected rare...
5.
Lynch R
Med Anthropol
. 2025 Feb;
:1-16.
PMID: 40019887
In an era of increasing interest in self-monitoring technologies to improve population health, this article considers how participants in a public health trial engaged with such technologies. Exploring how their...
6.
Waldstein A, Irving J, Francis D
Med Anthropol
. 2025 Feb;
:1-17.
PMID: 40016950
Health sovereignty - the assertion of rights to culturally and ecologically appropriate medicines and the ability of communities to structure their own healthcare - is a biopolitical goal of the...
7.
Arey W
Med Anthropol
. 2025 Feb;
:1-15.
PMID: 40013408
In this article, I explore connections of reproductive coercion and surveillance care through ethnographic research conducted at two independent abortion clinics in North Carolina from 2018 to 2019. Examining the...
8.
Desy A, Marre D
Med Anthropol
. 2025 Feb;
:1-13.
PMID: 39957212
Beyond the laws, different institutions watch over - or - the access to and practice of medically assisted reproductive care in France. Although a shift in the moral regimes underlying...
9.
Speculating About Futures with Covid Reinfection in the UK: The Body as a Site of Educated Guesswork
Dowrick A, Qureshi K, Rai T
Med Anthropol
. 2025 Feb;
:1-12.
PMID: 39905752
We revisit a time in 2021 when people in the UK were coming to terms with an unwanted future characterized by chronic COVID-19 infection. Drawing on experiences of people who...
10.
Haaland I, Ogillo K
Med Anthropol
. 2025 Jan;
44(1):83-95.
PMID: 39851211
Pre-exposure prophylaxis, commonly known as PrEP, is an HIV-preventative pill taken to reduce the risk of contracting HIV. During a PrEP study in Dar es Salaam among queer PrEP users,...