A memorial service will be held Tuesday for Mary Margaret Clark, a leading researcher of the cultural aspects of medicine who founded one the first graduate programs in medical anthropology at UCSF ...

Psychiatrist and anthropologist interested in how science and personal experiences might inform one another ...

Medical Anthropology Quarterly: International Journal for the Analysis of Health publishes research and theory in the field of medical anthropology. This field is broadly taken to include all ...

From global health to human adaptation and disease, our program covers a broad range of subjects to equip you for the diverse field of medical anthropology. You’ll work closely with our faculty—which ...

Benjamin David Paul, a Stanford University professor whom many consider the founding father of medical anthropology, has died. He was 94. Paul died May 24 in Atlanta from complications after a ...

Medical Anthropology Quarterly: International Journal for the Analysis of Health publishes research and theory in the field of medical anthropology. This field is broadly taken to include all ...

As a student in our MA in Medical Anthropology and Global Health program, you and a small cohort of classmates will dive into topics such as contemporary anthropology theory, ethnographic and ...

The MA degree program includes 30 credit hours of Anthropology coursework, completion of first-year student requirements and a master’s project paper. A minimum 24 credit hours must be taken in ...

Medical Anthropology is an interdisciplinary field that examines the multifaceted relationships between health, illness and culture. Researchers in this discipline engage in in‐depth qualitative ...

Health and well-being are often studied at the individual patient level, and recent efforts have focused on the effect of the physical environment in health. However, most medical studies pay little ...