MAJOR
PUBLICATIONS IN
MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Compiled by Dennis Wiedman, Ph.D.
Web Page: www.fiu.edu/~wiedmand Email: wiedmand@fiu.edu
Florida International University
February 1, 2000
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Here is an alphabetical
listing of major publications in the field of medical anthropology.
Compiled for use by students in medical anthroplogy at
Florida International Univeristy, Miami, Florida.
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Ackerknecht, Erwin
1971 Medicine and Ethnology: Selected Essays. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins.
*Agar, Michael
Alland, Alexander
1970 Adaptation in Cultural Evolution: An Approach to Medical Anthropology.
New York: Columbia University
Press.
Anderson, Robert
1996 Magic, Science, and Health: The Aims and Achievements of Medical Anthropology.
Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace.
Armelagos, George J. and Allen Swedlund.
1989 Health and Disease of Populations in Transition: Epidemiological and
Anthropological Perspectives. S. Hadley, Mass.: Bergin and Garvey.
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Baer, Hans
1987 Encounters with Biomedicine: Case Studies in Medical Anthropology. New York: Gordon
and Breach Science Publishers.
1989 The American Dominative Medical System
as a Reflection of Social Relations in the Larger Society. Social Science and Medicine 28:
1103-1112.
Baer, Hans, Merrill Singer, and Ida Susser
1997 Medical Anthropology and the World System: A Critical Perspective. Westport, Conn:
Bergin and Garvey.
Bastien, Joseph
1992 Drum and Stethoscope: Integrating Ethnomedicine and Biomedicine in Bolivia. Salt Lake
City: University of Utah Press.
Bateson, Gregory
1972 Steps to an Ecology of Mind. St. Albans, England: Palladin Books.
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Campbell, Kenneth, and James Wood
1994 Human Reproductive Ecology: Interactions of Environment, Fertility and Behavior.
Volume 709, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Cassell, Joan
1991 Expected Miracles: Surgeons at Work. Temple University Press. Reviewed MAQ 8:2.
Caudill, William
1958 The Psychiatric Hospital as a Small Society. Cambridge: Harvard U. Press.
Chen, Lincoln, Arthur Kleinman and Norma Ware
1994 Health and Social Change in International Perspective. Boston: Harvard University
Press.
Chrisman, Noel, and Thomas Maretzki, eds.
1982 Clinically Applied Anthropology: Anthropologists in Health Science Settings.
Dordrecht: D. Reidel.
Clark, Margaret, and Barbara Anderson
1967 Culture and Aging. Springfield, IL: Charles Thomas.
Cohen, Mark Nathan
1989 Health and the Rise of Civilization. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Cohen, Mark Nathan, and George Armelagos,
eds.
1984 Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture. Conference on Paleopathology and
Socioeconomic Change at the Origins of Agriculture (1982: State University of New York
College at Plattsburgh). New York: Academic Press.
*Coreil, Jeannine, and J. Dennis Mull
1990 Anthropology and Primary Health Care. Boulder: Westview Press.
Crosby, Alfred
1972 The Colombian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Greenwood Press
1986 Ecological Imperialism: The Biological
Expansion of Europe, 1500-1900. Cambridge U. Press.
1994 Germs, Seeds, and Animals: Studies in
Ecological History. M. E. Sharpe.
*Csordas, Thomas
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Davis-Floyd, Robbie and Joseph Dumit, eds.
1998 Cyborg Babies From Techno-Sex to Techno Tots. NY: Routledge. Revied in MAQ 13-4:509.
Dettwyler, Katherine
1994 Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa. Prospect Heights, Ill: Waveland
Press.
DeSantis, Lydia, and Robert Halberstein
1992 The Effects of Immigration on the Health Care System of South Florida. Human
Organization 51:3:223-234.
Devereux, George
1978 Ethnopsychoanalysis: Psychoanalysis and Anthropology as Complementary Frames of
Reference. Berkeley: U. of Cal. Press.
DiGiacomo, Susan
1992 Metaphor as Illness: Postmodern Dilemmas in the Representation of Body, Mind, and
Disorder. Medical Anthropology 14:109-137.
Douglas, Mary
1970 Natural Symbols. NY: Vintage.
Dow, James
1986 Universal Aspects of Symbolic Healing: A Theoretical Synthesis. American
Anthropologist 88:56-69.
Dubos, Rene J.
1959. Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change. Garden City, NY:
Doubleday.
Dunn, Frederick
1977 Health and Disease in Hunter-Gatherers: Epidemiological Factors. IN
Landy, David, ed., Culture, Disease and Healing: Studies in Medical Anthropology. New
York: Macmillan Publishing Co.
Eaton, S. Boyd, Marjorie Shostak, and Melvin
Konner.
1988 Paleolithic Prescription: A Program of Diet and Exercise and a Design for Living. NY:
Harper and Row.
Evans-Pritchard E. E.
1937 Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fabrega, Horacio
1973 Illness and Shamanistic Healing in Zinacantan. Stanford U. Press.
1974 Disease and Social Behavior: An
Interdisciplinary Perspective. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Farmer, Paul
1992 AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
Feldman, Douglas, and Thomas Johnson
1986 The Social Dimensions of AIDS. New York: Praeger.
Foster, George
1982 Applied Anthropology and International Health: Retrospective and Prospect. Human
Organization 41:189-197.
Foster, George, and Barbara G. Anderson
1978 Medical Anthropology. NY: John Wiley and Sons.
Foucault, Michael
1973 Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. NY: Vintage.
1975 The Birth of a Clinic: An Archeology of
Medical Perception. NY: Vintage.
Frankenberg, Ronald
1980 Medical Anthropology and Development: A Theoretical Perspective. Social Science and
Medicine 14B: 197-207.
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Gaines, Atwood, ed.
1992 Ethnopsychiatry: The Cultural Construction of Professional and Folk Psychiatries.
Albany, NY: State University of New York: SUNY Press, 1992. Reviewed MAQ 7:2.
Gavin W. Jones, Robert Douglas, John Caldwell
and Rennie D’Souza.
1998 The Continuing Demographic Transition. NY: Oxford U. Press.
Good, Byron
1994 Medicine, Rationality, and Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Goodman, Alan, Darna Dufour and Gretel Pelto
1999 Nutritional Anthropology: Biocultural Perspectives on Food and Nutrition. Mountain
View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co.
Grossinger, Richard
1990 Planet Medicine: From Stone Age Shamanism to Post Industrial Healing. Berkeley, CA:
North Atlantic Books.
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Hahn, Robert
1995 Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective. Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press.
Harner, Michael
1980 The Way of the Shaman: A Guide to Power and Healing. NY: Bantam Books.
Harris, Marvin, and Eric B. Ross, eds.
1987 Food and Evolution: Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press. GN 407 F65 1987.
Helman, Cecil
1994 Culture, Health and Illness: An Introduction for Health Professionals. Oxford:
Butterworth/Heinemann.
Holden, Pat, and Jenny Littlewood, eds.
1991 Anthropology and Nursing. London: Routledge. Reviewed in MAQ 7:4.
Hill, Carol, Ed.
1991 Training Manual in Medical Anthropology. Special Publication #27. Professional
Series. Washington: American Anthropological Association. Reviewed in MAQ 7:1.
Hultkrantz, Ake
1992 Shamanic Healing and Ritual Drama: Health and Medicine in Native North American
Religious Traditions. New York: Crossroads, for the Lutheran General Health System.
Reviewed MAQ 8:2.
Hunt, Linda M., and Cheryl Mattingly
1998 Diverse Rationalities and Multiple Realities in Illness and healing. Medical
Anthropology Quarterly 12:267-272.
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Janes, Craig R.
1990 Migration, Social Change and Health: A Samoan Community in Urban California. Stanford
University Press.
Janes, Craig, Ron Stall, and Sandra Gifford
1986 Anthropology and Epidemiology: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Health
and Disease. Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company. (GN 296 A55 1986)
Janzen, John
1978 The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire. Berkeley: U. of Cal. Press.
Johnson, Thomas, and Carolyn F. Sargent, Eds.
1990 Medical Anthropology: A Handbook of Theory and Method. New York: Greenwood Press.
1996 Medical Anthropology: Contemporary
Theory and Method. New York: Praeger. (Paperback edition of 1990 volume.)
Jordan, Brigitte
1978 Birth in Four Cultures. Montreal: Eden Press Women's Publications.
Justice, Judith
1986 Policies, Plans, and People: Culture and Health Development in Nepal. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
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Katz, Richard
1982 Boiling energy: Community Healing among the Kalahari !Kung. Cambridge. MA: Harvard
University Press.
Kiev, Ari, ed.
1966 Magic, Faith and Healing: Studies in Primitive Psychiatry Today. NY: Free Press of
Glencoe.
*Kleinman, Arthur
1980 Patients and Healer in the Context of Culture: An Exploration of the Borderland
between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry. Berkeley: University of California Press.
1988 Rethinking Psychiatry: From Cultural
Category to Personal Experience.
1995 Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between
Anthropology and Medicine. Berkeley: University of California Press.
*Kleinman, Arthur and Byron Good, eds.
1985 Culture and Depression: Studies in Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of
Affect and Disorder. Berkeley: U. of California Press.
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Landy, David, ed.
1977 Culture, Disease and Healing: Studies in Medical Anthropology. New York: Macmillan
Publishing Co.
Langdon, E., Jean Matteson, and Gerhard Baer,
eds.
1992 Portals of Power: Shamanism in South America. Albuquerque, NM: University of New
Mexico Press. Reviewed MAQ 8:2.
*Leininger, Madeline
1991 Culture Care Diversity and Universality: A Theory of Nursing. NY: National League for
Nursing Press.
Leslie, Charles and Allan Young, eds.
1992 Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Lindenbaum, Shirley and Margaret Lock, eds.
1993 Knowledge, Power, and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
Livingston, Frank
1958 Anthropological Implication of Sickle Cell Gene Distribution in West Africa. American
Anthropologist 60:533-562.
Lock, Margaret and Deborah Gordon, eds.
1988 Biomedicine Examined. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Logan, H. Michael, and Edward E. Hunt, Jr.
1978 Health and the Human Condition: Perspectives on Medical Anthropology. North Scituate,
Mass: Duxbury Press.
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MacAndrew, C. And Robert Edgerton
1969 Drunken Comportment: A Social Explanation. Chicago: Aldine.
Mascie-Taylor, C. G. N.
1993 The Anthropology of Disease. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mattingly, Cheryl
1998 Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots. New York: Cambridge
University Press.
McElroy, Ann and Patricia Townsend
1985 Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective. Boulder: Westview Press.
Mering, Otto Von and Leonard Kasdan, eds.
1970 Anthropology and the Behavioral and Health Sciences. Pittsburg: University of
Pittsburgh Press.
Mintz, Sidney
1985 Sweetness and Power. NY: Penguin Press.
*Moerman, Daniel
Placebo Effect
Murdock, George Peter
1980 Theories of Illness: A World Survey. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
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Opler, Marvin
Opler, Morris
1936 Some Points of Comparison and Contrast Between the Treatment of Functional Disorders
by Apache Shamans and Modern Psychiatric Practice. American Journal of Psychiatry
92:1371-87.
Page, J. Bryan and Jose S. Fraile
1999 Use of Needles and Syringes in Miami and Valencia: Observations of High and Low
Availability. 13(14):413-435.
Paul, Benjamin
1955 Health, Culture and Community. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
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Rathbun, Ted and Jane Buikstra
1984 Human Identification: Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology. Springfield, Ill:
Charles Thomas.
Reff, Daniel T.
1990 Disease, Depopulation, and Culture Change in Northwestern New Spain, 1518-1764. Salt
Lake City, UT: Univ. of Utah Press
Rivers, W. H. R.
1924 Medicine, Magic, and Religion. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co.
Romanucci-Ross, Lola, Daniel E. Moerman,
Laurence R. Tancredi, eds.
1983 The Anthropology of Medicine: From Culture to Medicine. New York: J.F. Bergin
Publishers.
1997 Third Edition of above, with additional
chapters and topics.
Rosenberg, Karen and Wenda Trevathan
1996 Bipedalism and Human Birth: The Obstetrical Dilemma Revisited. Evolutionary
Anthropology 4(5):161-168.
*Rubel, Arthur, O'Nell, and Collado-Ardon
1984 Susto: A Folk Illness. Berkeley: U. of Cal. Press.
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Sargent, Carolyn and Caroline Brettell
1996 Gender and Health: An International Perspective. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice
Hall.
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy
1979 Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland. Berkeley: U. of
Cal. Press.
1992 Death Without Weeping: The Violence of
Everyday Life in Brazil. Berkeley: U. of Cal. Press.
Scrimshaw, Susan and E. Hurtado
1987 Rapid Assessment Procedures For Nutrition and Primary Health Care: Anthropological
Approaches to Improving Program Effectiveness. Tokyo: United Nations University.
Settipane, Guy A. (ed.).
1995 Columbus and the New World: Medical implications. Providence, RI: Oceanside
Publications
Sharma, Ursula
1992 Complementary Medicine Today: Practitioners and Patients. New York: Routledge.
Reviewed in MAQ 7:4.
Singer, Merrill
1992 The Application of Theory in Medical Anthropology. N.Y.: Gordon and Breach.
Singer, Merrill and Hans Baer
1995 Critical Medical Anthropology. Amityville, NY: Baywood Press.
Singer, Merrill, Hans Baer and Ellen Lazarus
1990 Critical Medical Anthropology: Theory and Research. Special Issue of Social Science
and Medicine. 30(2).
Sontag, Susan
1978 Illness as Metaphor. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Stein, Howard
1990 American Medicine as Culture. Boulder: Westview Press.
Stewart, T. D.
1984 Essentials of Forensic Anthropology: Especially as Developed in the United States.
Springfiled, ILL: Charles Thomas.
Swedlund, Alan C., and George J. Armelagos
1990 Disease in Populations in Transition: Anthropological and Epidemiological
Perspectives. New York: Bergin and Garvey.
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Verano, John W., and Douglas Ubelaker
1993 Disease and Demography in the Americas. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution
Press.
Van Der Geest, Sjaak, and Susan Reynolds,
eds.
1991 The Context of Medicines in Developing Countries: Studies in Pharmaceutical
Anthropology. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis Publishers. Reviewed in MAQ 8:2.
Young, James and Linda Garro
1981 Medical Choice in a Mexican Village. Prospect Heights, ILL: Waveland Press.
Ward, R. H., and K. M. Weiss
1976 The Demographic Evolution of Human Populations. New York: Academic Press Inc.
Weidman, Hazel
1982 Research Strategies, Structural Alterations, and Clinically Relevant Anthropology. IN
Noel Chrisman and Thomas Maretzki, eds. Clinically Applied Anthropology: Anthropologists
in Health Science Settings. Dordrecht: D. Reidel. p. 201-43.
1986 Origins: Reflections on the History of
the SMA and Its Official Publication. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 17(5):115-124.
Weil, Connie and Joseph L. Scarpaci, eds.
1992 Health and Health Care in Latin America During the Lost Decade: Insights for the
1990's. Minnesota Latin American Series, 3, and Iowa International Papers 5-8. 359 pp.
Reviewed MAQ 8:2.
Winkelman, Michael
1992 Shamans, Priests and Witches: A Cross-Cultural Study of Magico-Religious
Practitioners. Tempe: Arizona State University. Anthropological Research Papers, No. 44.
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