A Companion to Medical Anthropology

The Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology offers a series of comprehensive syntheses of the traditional subdisciplines, primary subjects, and geographic areas of inquiry for the field. Taken together, the series represents both a contemporary survey of anthropology and a cutting edge guide to the emerging research and intellectual trends in the field as a whole.

1 A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology, edited by Alessandro Duranti

2 A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics, edited by David Nugent and Joan Vincent

3 A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians, edited by Thomas Biolsi

4 A Companion to Psychological Anthropology, edited by Conerly Casey and Robert B. Edgerton

5 A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan, edited by Jennifer Robertson

6 A Companion to Latin American Anthropology, edited by Deborah Poole

7 A Companion to Biological Anthropology, edited by Clark Larsen

8 A Companion to the Anthropology of India, edited by Isabelle Clark-Decès

9 A Companion to Medical Anthropology, Second Edition, edited by Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson, and César E. Abadía-Barrero

10 A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology, edited by David B. Kronenfeld, Giovanni Bennardo, Victor C. de Munck, and Michael D. Fischer

11 A Companion to Cultural Resource Management, edited by Thomas King

12 A Companion to the Anthropology of Education, edited by Bradley A. Levinson and Mica Pollock

13 A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment, edited by Frances E. Mascia-Lees

14 A Companion to Paleopathology, edited by Anne L. Grauer

15 A Companion to Folklore, edited by Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem

16 A Companion to Forensic Anthropology, edited by Dennis Dirkmaat

17 A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe, edited by Ullrich Kockel, Máiréad Nic Craith, and Jonas Frykman

18 A Companion to Border Studies, edited by Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan

19 A Companion to Rock Art, edited by Jo McDonald and Peter Veth

20 A Companion to Moral Anthropology, edited by Didier Fassin

21 A Companion to Gender Prehistory, edited by Diane Bolger

22 A Companion to Organizational Anthropology, edited by D. Douglas Caulkins and Ann T. Jordan

23 A Companion to Paleoanthropology, edited by David R. Begun

24 A Companion to Chinese Archaeology, edited by Anne P. Underhill

25 A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion, edited by Janice Boddy and Michael Lambek

26 A Companion to Urban Anthropology, edited by Donald M. Nonini

27 A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East, edited by Soraya Altorki

28 A Companion to Heritage Studies, edited by William Logan, Máiréad Nic Craith, and Ullrich Kockel

29 A Companion to Dental Anthropology, edited by Joel D. Irish and G. Richard Scott

30 A Companion to Anthropology of Environmental Health, edited by Merrill Singer

31 A Companion to South Asia in the Past, edited by Gwen Robbins Schug and Subhash R. Walimbe

32 A Companion to Anthropology of Africa, edited by Roy Richard Grinker, Stephen C. Lubkemann, Christopher B. Steiner, and Euclides Goncalves

33 A Companion to Anthropological Genetics, edited by Dennis H. O’Rourke

The New Wiley Blackwell Companion to Linguistic Anthropology , edited by Alessandro Duranti, Rachel George, and Robin Conley Riner

A Companion to Biological Anthropology , Second Edition, edited by Clark Larsen

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Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson, and César E. Abadía-Barrero

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Names: Singer, Merrill, editor. | Erickson, Pamela I. (Pamela Irene), 1951-editor. | Abadía-Barrero, César, editor.

Title: A companion to medical anthropology / edited by Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson, César E. Abadía-Barrero.

Description: Second edition. | Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2022. | Series: Wiley Bblackwell companions to anthropology | Includes bibliographical references and index.