NOTABLE MEDICAL
ANTHROPOLOGISTS
Compiled by Dennis Wiedman, Ph.D.
Web Page: www.fiu.edu/~wiedmand Email: wiedmand@fiu.edu
Florida International University
March 1, 2000
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Persons are in alphabetical
order by last name followed with key words related to their specializations in health
research, historical role, cultural groups, or geographic regions.
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Erwin Ackerknecht: Ethnomedicine,
geography of disease, paleopathology, earliest medical anthropologist.
Alexander Alland: Evolution,
adaptation and disease, health ecology. Founder of medical anthropology.
Robert Anderson: Europe,
chiropracty, low-back pain.
Michael Angrosino: Public policy,
mental health, US and West Indies.
George Armelagos: Disease and
human evolution, modernization.
Hans Baer: Critical medical
anthropology, naturopathy, Afro-American ethnomedicine, osteopathy, chiropractors.
Gay Becker: Aging, strokes,
deafness, infertility, US.
Linda Bennett: Family culture,
alcoholism, drug studies, Eastern Europe, US.
Barry Bogin: Human growth and
development, evolution of human childhood, biocultural interactions. Maya in Florida.
Ralph Bolton: Hypoglycemia, Latin America,
homosexuality, AIDS.
Peter J. Brown: Infectious diseases, malaria,
genetic evolution, obesity, Sardinia.
Carol Browner: Reproduction, women's roles, Latin
America.
Jane Buikstra: Paleopathology, diet, demography,
tuberculosis, sedentism, maize agriculture, US archeology.
John Cassel: Epidemiology, comprehensive health
programs, Zulu of Africa.
Claire Cassidy: Malnutrition, alternative
medicines, acupuncture.
William Caudill: Psychiatric hospital,
psychoanalysis, stress.
Leo Chavez: Cancer, US Latinas.
Margaret Clark: Aging, Mexican-Americans,
modernization.
Noel Chrisman: Health beliefs and health care
seeking, American beliefs, nursing, clinically applied anthropology.
Cohen, M. N.: Paleopathology, food, population
regulation.
Jean Comaroff: Social construction of medicine,
leukemia, Africa.
Jean Coreil: International health, development,
oral rehydration therapy, diarrheal diseases, public health.
Alfred Crosby: Disease and discovery of New World,
syphilis.
Thomas Csordas: Therapeutic process, charismatic
healing, Afro-American spirit possession, Navaho.
Robbie Davis-Floyd: Birthing, midwifery,
obstetrics training.
Lydia DeSantis: Nursing anthropology, Cuban and
Haitian immigrant health, China.
George De Vos: Culture and self, symbolic
analysis, psychological tests, Japan.
George Devereux: Ethnopsychoanalysis, normal and
abnormal, Mohave, Native Americans..
Marlene Dobkin de Rios: Plant hallucinogens,
altered states of consciousness, Peru, Amazon.
Henry Dobyns: Native American populations and
disease, ethnohistory.
Molly Dougherty: Nursing anthropology, midwifery,
rural US Blacks..
Mary Douglas: Risk and environmental dangers,
food, natural symbols, Africa.
James Dow: Symbolic healing, shamanism, Otoni,
Mexico
William Dressler: Stress, cardiovascular disease,
Caribbean, Brazil, US South, American Blacks, Mexico.
Frederick Dunn: Health and disease in
hunter-gatherers, parasites, Asian medicine.
Eaton, S. B.: Paleolithic nutrition.
Robert Edgerton: Institutionalized people,
psychiatry, Africa.
Sue Estroff: Social construction of chronicity,
health policy, mental illness.
Nina Etkin: Ethnopharmacology, ethnobotany,
Western Africa, infectious disease.
Horatio Fabrega: Comparative medical systems,
disease/illness distinctions, psychiatry, shamanism, Zinacantan.
Paul Farmer: AIDS, Haiti.
Douglas Feldman: AIDS, Africa and US, global
policy.
Spero Manson: Cross-Cultural Mental Health, Native
Americans
George Mcclelland Foster: Humoral medicine,
international health agencies, Tzintzuntzan.
Michel Foucault: Medical perception, sexuality,
insanity, power and knowledge, clinics, prisons.
Ronald Frankenberg: AIDS/HIV, temporality in
biomedicine, narratives of chronic suffering, Africa and Italy.
Atwood Gaines: Ethnopsychiatry, Ethnomedicine,
physicians.
Clifford Geertz: Curing, sorcery, magic, Java.
Byron Good: Therapeutic process, clinical
anthropology, physician training, Iran.
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good: Psychiatry, pain, Iran.
Allen Goodman: Paleopathology, enamel hypoplasias,
Native Americans.
Robert Hahn: Ethical and legal issues, physicians,
biomedicine, US health agencies.
Michael Harner: Shamanism, witchcraft, altered
states, Jivaro.
Allen Harwood: Hot/cold theories, Puerto Rico.
Dwight Heath: Alcohol and drinking behaviors,
Bolivia, US.
Cecil Helman: Psychosomatic disorders, heart
disease.
James Henry: Hypertension, psychological
projective tests, Brazil.
Carole Hill: Primary health care policy,
intervention evaluations, Costa Rica and US, Theory and practice..
John Honigmann: Abnormality, witch-fear,
psychiatry, Eskimo.
Nancy Howell: Paleodemography, hunter-gatherer
life courses, population theory.
Charles Hughes: Ethnopsychiatry, culture bound
syndromes, Eskimo, Africa.
Rebecca Huss-Ashmore: Nutrition and
paleopathology, Africa.
Craig Janes: Migration and health, social support,
blood pressure, Somoa, Tibet.
John Janzen: Quest for therapy, therapy
management, Africa.
Thomas M. Johnson: Clinical anthropology,
physician-patients, medical schools, AIDS, premenstrual syndrome.
Brigitte Jordon: Cross-cultural obstetrics,
birthing, women's issues, midwives.
Judith Justice: International health. planning and
development, Nepal.
Sharon Kaufman: Aging, geriatric assessment,
stroke, US.
Jeane Kayser-Jones: Aging, nursing homes, US and
Scotland.
Arthur Kleinman: Patients and healers in context
of culture, therapeutic process, psychiatry, depression, China.
Clyde Kluckhohn: Psychological anthropology,
personality, Navaho.
Weston La Barre: Cults, psychological
anthropology.
Ellen Lazarus: Political economy of health,
doctor/patient relations, pregnancy and childbirth.
Robert Lee: Hunter-gatherer demography, lactation,
infanticide, Kung, Africa.
Madeline Leininger: Nursing anthropology,
transcultural care, culturalogical patient assessment.
Charles Leslie: Professionalization, Chinese
medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, India, medical pluralism.
Shirley Lindenbaum: AIDS, kuru, New Guinea, US,
Power and Biomedicine
F. B. Livingston: Malaria, sickle-cell anemia,
genetics, West Africa.
Leslie-Sue Lieberman: Nutrition, Type I and II
diabetes, African Americans.
Margaret Lock: Anthropology of the body,
life-cycle transitions, menopause, organ transplants, biomedicine, Japan.
Setha Low: Anthropology of the body, nervios,
Costa Rica.
Patricia Marshall: Ethical decision making, AIDS,
organ transplants.
Emily Martin: Cultural construction of immunology
and the body, gender, reproduction, technohuman practices.
Sidney Mintz: Food and biocultural evolution,
sugar, plantations, Caribbean, African Americans.
Ellen Messer: Nutritional anthropology,
ethnobotany, Mexican-Americans.
Daniel Moerman: Symbolic healing, Native American
medicinal plants, placebo effect.
Scheir Morsy: Political economy of health,
reproduction, Egypt.
James Neel: Genetics, South American Indians,
infectious diseases, diabetes.
Mark Nichter: Ethnophysiology, digestion and
diarrhea, psychiatry, India, Risk Perception..
Marvin Opler: Cross-cultural psychiatry, culture
and mental health, Ute of Utah.
Morris Opler: Shamanism, psychological
anthropology, Apache, India, Japanese in US.
J. Bryan Page: AIDS, needle drug users, cannabis,
crack houses, South Florida, Costa Rica.
Benjamin Paul: Community and public health,
Guatemala.
Gretel Pelto: Infant and maternal nutrition,
Primary care, US, Mexico and Finland.
Pertti Pelto: Technological change and
modernization, US, Mexico and Finland, Arctic, field research methods.
Barbara Pillsbury: International health planning
and evaluation, family planning, Asia, Middle East and Africa.
Steven Polgar: Population control, natality and
fertility.
M. L. Powell: Status and health in prehistory,
dental wear, North American archeology.
Irwin Press: Hospitals and clinics, Maya.
Raymond Prince: Ethnopsychotherapy, trance and
possession states, Yoruba, Africa.
Sarah Quandt: Nutritional anthropology, infant
nutrition, nutrition survey and interviewing methods.
Rapp,
J. C. Rose: Diet and dentition, paleopathology.
Lorna Rhodes: Biomedicine as cultural system,
psychiatric institutions and practice, emergency units.
Lola Romanucci-Ross: Transcultural psychiatry,
hierarchy of resort, biomedicine, Melanesia.
Cheryl Ritenbaugh: Nutritional anthropology, body
image, diabetes, cancer, household refuse.
Arthur Rubel: Ethnomedicine, epidemiology of folk
illnesses, susto, Mexico, Philippine Islands, US.
Robert Rubinstein: International health,
epidemiology, aging, Central America, Urban US, and Egypt.
Carolyn Sargent: Therapeutic choice, obstetrics,
reproduction, professionalization, midwifery, Benin of Africa.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes: Social production of
illness, child survival, hunger, Sicily, Ireland, Brazil, South Africa.
Susan Scrimshaw: Infant mortality, contraceptives,
diarrheal diseases, rapid assessment methods, Ecuador, Central America.
Demitri Shimkin: Community health and
hypertension. Mississippi, clinical anthropology, American Blacks, Shoshone.
Merrill Singer: Critical medical anthropology,
AIDS, US Hispanics, Haiti, Christian Science healing.
Clyde Snow: Forensic anthropology, human facial
reconstructions and identifications.
Loudell Snow: American Blacks, Ethnomedicine.
Ron Stall: AIDS, drug use, alcohol use, sexual
activity, epidemiology.
Kenyon Stebbins: Tobacco and health, Mexico, rural
health services, hazardous wastes.
Howard F. Stein: Psychoanalytic anthropology,
culture of medicine, Slovak-Americans.
Patricia Stuart-Macadam: Biocultural perspectives
on breastfeeding, reproduction.
Emoke Szathmary: Biological anthropology,
diabetes, Canadian aborigines.
Michael T. Taussig: Nutrition, development,
consciousness, colonialism, shamanism, South America.
Victor Turner: Ritual healing, divination,
religion and symbolism, Africa
Wenda Trevathan: Evolutionary
Medicine, primate and hominid birthing.
Toni Tripp-Reimer: Nursing
anthropology, aging, human variability, clinical assessment.
Robert T. Trotter: Alcohol and
drug use, Mexican American farm laborers, AIDS, curanderismo, lead poisoning.
Bill True: Epidemiology,
post-traumatic stress disorder, drug use.
Douglas Ubelaker: Human skeletal
biology, paleopathology, forensic anthropology, demography, archeology.
Maria-Luisa Urdaneta: Metabolic
disorders, Diabetes, Mexican-American health and nutrition, Texas.
Allan Young: Discourse and
medical knowledge, psychiatry, Ethiopia, Nepal, US.
James Young: Medical choices,
Mexico.
Anthony Wallace: Psychological
anthropology, disasters, Seneca of NE US.
Hazel Weidman: Clinical
anthropology., transcultural healthcare, Miami ethnic groups, Founder of Society for
Medical Anthropology.
Kenneth M. Weiss: Human genome,
molecular anthro., behavioral adaptation of primates and humans, demography.
Linda Whiteford: Maternal and
child health, reproduction, Caribbean.
John Wesley Whiting: Child
rearing, personality, psychological anthropology, world comparisons, Melanesia.
Michael Winkelman: Consciousness,
altered states, therapeutic effects of hallucinogens, Baja California.
Irving Zola: Medical
institutions, physically disabled, crime, poverty.
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