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.

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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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