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| Preface | |
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| Healers and Healing Traditions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Backing into the Future | |
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| Menopause: Lessons from Anthropology Healing Traditions | |
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| Why not Call Modern Medicine ldquo;Alternativerdquo;? | |
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| Concepts of Arthritis in Indiarsquo;s Medical Traditions: Ayurvedic and Unani Perspectives | |
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| Cultural Studies of Biomedicine: an Agenda for Research | |
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| Good Homeopathic Medicine in the City of Oaxaca, Mexico: Patientsrsquo; Perspectives and Observations | |
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| The Epistemology of Traditional Healing Systems Patients and Healers | |
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| Perturbing the System: ldquo;Hard Science,rdquo; ldquo;Soft Science,rdquo; and Social Science, the Anxiety and Madness of Method | |
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| Clown Doctors: Shaman Healers of Western Medicine | |
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| Shamanism and its Discontents | |
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| Distal Nursing | |
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| Witnessing and the Medical Gaze: How Medical Students Learn to See at a Free Clinic for the Homeless | |
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| Biocultural Approaches Adaptation, Variation, Plasticity | |
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| Living at the Edge of Space | |
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| The Co-Evolution of People, Plants, and Parasites: Biological and Cultural Adaptations to Malaria | |
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| The Vital Role of the Skin in Human Natural History | |
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| Why Genes Donrsquo;t Count (for Racial Differences in Health) Evolutionary Medicine | |
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| Evolution and the Origins of Disease | |
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| Evolutionary Health Promotion | |
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| Evolutionary Health Promotion: a Consideration of Common Counterarguments Prehistory and History of Human Health | |
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| Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases: the Third Epidemiologic Transition | |
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| Health Conditions before Columbus: Paleopathology of Native North Americans | |
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| A Comparison of Health Complaints of Settled and Nomadic Turkana Men | |
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| The Resurgence of Disease: Social and Historical Perspectives on the ldquo;Newrdquo; Tuberculosis | |
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| Implications of Pandemic Influenza for Bioterrorism Response Ecology and Geography of Disease | |
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| Health Implications of Modern Agricultural Transformations: Malaria and Pellagra in Italy | |
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| Global Climate Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases | |
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| Ecology and Ethnomedicine: Exploring Links between Current Environmental Crisis and Indigenous Medical Practices | |
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| Culture-Oriented Approaches Concepts and Perspectives | |
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| Cultural Meaning, Explanations of Illness, and the Development of Comparative Frameworks | |
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| The Mindful Body: a Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology Mind-Body-Universe | |
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| Breast Cancer: Reading the Omens | |
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| Refugee Stress and Folk Belief: Hmong Sudden Deaths | |
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| Deconstructing the Placebo Effect and Finding the Meaning Response | |
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| Possible Efficacy of a Creek Folk Medicine through Skin Absorption: an Object Lesson in Ethnopharmacology Explanatory Models and Social and Politico-Economic Contexts | |
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| Cultural Contexts of Ebola in Northern Uganda | |
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| Health Beliefs and Folk Models of Diabetes in British Bangladeshis: a Qualitative Study | |
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| Social Scientists and the New Tuberculosis | |
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| Embodiment of Terror: Gendered Violence in Peacetime and Wartime in Croatia a | |
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