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Medical Anthropology Quarterly

International Journal for the Analysis of Health

Medical Anthropology Quarterly publishes research and theory in all areas of medical anthropology. Its goal is to stimulate development of important theory, methods, and debates in medical anthropology and to explore the links between medical anthropology, the broader field of anthropology, and neighboring fields in the humanities, social sciences, and health-related disciplines, including public health and clinical practice.

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Latest Issue

Volume 39, Issue 4 (December, 2025)

Articles

From leprosy to ground zero: Imagining futures in a world of elimination

James Staples

Living with acuteness in chronic illness: The temporal underpinnings of endometriosis

Elina Helosvuori and Venla Oikkonen

Slippery Knowledge: Ignorance, Ecologies, and Environment in Endometriosis Framing

Andrea Ford

Claiming normal: Disability, stigma, and relationality in Amman

Christine Sargent

Anxious Projections: Mass Hysteria and the Problem of Interpretation

Aidan Seale-Feldman

Lead as pharmakon: IQ, violence, and the racialization of a toxic element

Stefanie Toney Graeter

Contextualizing adherence: Iron supplementation treatment among Peruvian caretakers and their anemic children

Achsah F. Dorsey

Epidemiology of conspiracy: Infected vaccines, infectious patients, and superspreaders for hire

Tankut Atuk

“I’d rather die”: Patients’ will and decision-making practice in Japanese community psychiatry

Yuto Kano

“More Than Just the Two Percent”: The reproductive politics of envisioning abortion and miscarriage in Turner syndrome

AJ Jones

Book Reviews

Review of Collateral damages: Tracing the debts and displacements of the Iraq War By Nadia El-Shaarawi, Oakland: University of California Press. 2025. 239 pp.

Zainab Saleh

Review of Disability worlds By Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, Durham: Duke University Press. 2024. 288 pp.

Kim Fernandes

Review of Fragile kinships: Child welfare and well-being in Japan By Kathryn E. Goldfarb, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 2024. 220 pp.

Amy Borovoy

Review of Physicians of the future: Doctor-influencers, patient-consumers, and the business of functional medicine By Rosalynn A. Vega, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 2024. 336 pp.

Anamaria Iosif Ross

Review of How to be disabled in a pandemic By Mara Mills, Harris Kornstein, Faye Ginsburg, and Rayna Rapp, New York, New York: New York University Press. 2025. 392 pp.

Megan Moodie

Review of Making sense: Language, ethics, and understanding in deaf Nepal By E. Mara Green, Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2024. pp. 240

Kelly Fagan Robinson

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