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Medical Anthropology: Home

Guide to databases, journals, background information, and other sources related to medical anthropology.

Recommended Resources

Anthropology Librarians

Kate Blinn
Bryn Mawr College

Deadra Brown
Haverford College

Simon Elichko
Swarthmore College

Tracing Citations

You can use citation indexes to count how many times a source has been cited, which is one measure of scholarly influence. You can also use citation indexes to see which books/articles have cited the source in question.

By tracing a source forward and backward through time, you are tracing a thread of the scholarly conversation on this topic.