The long journey to reclaiming the buried at the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Asylum Hill continues with the ...

Medical anthropology studies the universal human experience of health and illness, and practices and technologies of medicine and treatment, across societies and cultures, in different historical and ...

This course focuses on anthropological perspectives on health, illness, bodies and medicine. It presents current ethnographic research on the interactions between biology, culture, society, and ...

What does it mean to practice medicine in a time of political upheaval, environmental crisis, and deepening inequality? This unsettled question anchored the 11th Biennial Conference of the Society for ...

This course introduces anthropological perspectives on health, illness and medicine, and explores the interactions between biology, society and culture. It aims to present a contextual and comparative ...

The Centre for Anthropology and Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA) is excited to announce its 2026/2027 Masters Scholarships (MA and MRes). As a recently launched UKRI-funded research centre, ...

Women now make up over half of medical students in Canada, but only one-third of practicing surgeons. A new study suggests part of the gap stems from gender norms embedded in workplace culture. The ...

Medical anthropology explores how people understand health, experience illness and navigate systems of care. Research examines how culture, community and environment shape well-being across societies, ...

The medical anthropology concentration within UB’s MA in Anthropology prepares you to examine health, illness and disability as lived human experiences shaped by culture, history and power. You will ...

The CSI television franchise has significantly boosted public interest in forensic science, leading to a surge in recent years of students seeking training in related programs such as forensic ...

Roland Littlewood, medical anthropologist whose interests ranged from zombies to Albanian blood feuds As a young radical, Littlewood seized a policeman’s helmet in 1968 during the ‘Battle of Grosvenor ...