Medical Anthropology

Medical Anthropology

Medical Anthropology has emerged as one of the most vibrant areas of theoretical and applied research in Anthropology today.  As the study of health and illness through space and time, medical anthropology engages numerous “life and death” issues;  these range from particular disease histories to the structure of the body and its maladies to cross-cultural comparisons of diverse medical systems to the psychic, religious, and somatic experiences of human suffering, to name only a few.