Research Guides: ANTH 331: Advanced Topics in Medical Anthropology (BMC): Scholarly Articles & Journals

Multidisciplinary Databases & Academic Search Engines

These citation databases and search aggregators will have journal content relevant to medical anthropology.

Anthropology Plus
Use this database to find scholarly journal articles in Anthropology.
AnthroSource
Use this database to find scholarly journal articles in Anthropology. Articles are from peer-reviewed journals published by the American Anthropological Association.
Google Scholar
Search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports in all disciplines. Linked to Tripod.
JSTOR
Access to millions of journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in most academic disciplines. For journals, coverage is from first issue through three to five years ago.
ProQuest Social Science Database
Provides citations and abstracts to articles from social sciences periodicals. Coverage from 1994 to present. From the "All Databases" search screen, use the "Databases" link to select any other relevant collections and do a combined search.
PubMed
Free database of biomedical and related life and behavioral sciences journal articles. Includes MEDLINE index and links to PubMed Central open access articles when available.

Journals

These journal links take you to the contents for an individual journal. This can be useful if you are browsing as you search for or refine your topic.
All of these journals are included in at least one additional place - JSTOR, Tripod articles search, or Proquest Social Sciences.

Journals that focus on Medical Anthropology:

American Journal of Public Health
Anthropology and Medicine
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
International Journal of Health Services
Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law
Journal of Health & Social Behavior
Journal of Public Health Policy The Journal of Public Health Policy is a peer-reviewed medical journal. It covers the field of public health and is the official journal of the National Association for Public Health Policy
Medical Anthropology
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
Medicine Anthropology Theory
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
Social Science & Medicine

General Anthropology Journals:

American Anthropologist
American Ethnologist
Current Anthropology
Ethos
Human Organization