Research Guides: Medical Anthropology: Home

Recommended Resources

Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology
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Describes the cultural practices relevant to health in the world's cultures and provides an overview of important topics in medical anthropology. Many of these essays include extensive bibliographies for further reading.

Annual Review of Anthropology
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Review articles covering the discipline of anthropology and highlighting important scholarship in the field. Recent articles in medical anthropology include "Diabetes and Culture" (2012), "Transnational Migration and Global Health" (2011), and "Medical Discourse" (2009).
AnthroSource
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Use AnthroSource to find scholarly journal articles in anthropology.
Anthropology Plus
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More expansive than AnthroSource, Anthropology Plus is an excellent database for finding scholarly articles in anthropology.

A Companion to Medical Anthropology (2015)
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ISBN: 9781118863213
A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today. Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960s.
Medical Anthropology at the Intersections by Marcia C. Inhorn; Emily A. Wentzell (Editors) In this important collection, prominent scholars who helped to establish medical anthropology as an area of study reflect on the field's past, present, and future. In doing so, they demonstrate that medical anthropology has developed dynamically, through its intersections with activism, with other subfields in anthropology, and with disciplines as varied as public health, the biosciences, and studies of race and ethnicity. Available as an ebook and print book.
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ISBN: 0822352702
Publication Date: 2012
The Anthropology of Alternative Medicine by Anamaria Ross
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Call Number: H Magill GN296 .R67 2012
ISBN: 1845208013
Publication Date: 2012-02-28
Alternative medicine is not a fashionable new trend but an established cultural strategy, as well as a dynamic feature of mainstream contemporary medicine, in which elements of folk traditions are often blended with western scientific approaches. The Anthropology of Alternative Medicineis a concise yet wide-ranging exploration of non-biomedical healing.

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.

Web of Science
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Use "Cited Reference Searching" to see how many times an article or book has been cited, and to see which articles/books have cited it.
Google Scholar
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Offers a quick (but not always perfectly accurate) measure of how many articles/books have cited the work you're searching for.