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Medical Anthropology Quarterly

International Journal for the Analysis of Health

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

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 40, Issue 3 (September, 2026)

Articles

What’s in a Name? Psychiatric Concept Creep and the Moral Legibility of Student Suffering within the Canadian University Context

Adrianna Nicole Wiley

Watching you wear out: Time as clinical labor

Stephanie Davies

Antibiotic use in Türkiye: Everyday encounters of translating policy and negotiating rationality

Ayse Nalan Azak

Breathing through the rage: Maternal refusal as ethnographic method

Lalaie Ameeriar

Medical pluralism and kincentric care in Indigenous Australia: Yanyuwa experiences of illness and the importance of keeping company

Amanda Kearney, Dinah Norman a-Marrngawi, John Bradley, and Mavis Timothy a-Muluwamara

Violence in harm reduction: Exploring the social, political, and emotional conditions of harm reduction work

Guillaume Dumont and Marie Jauffret-Roustide

Betwixt playing the waiting game and waiting in vain: Temporal governance and the thin alignment of care under universal health coverage in Kenya

Edwin Ambani Ameso

Book Review

Review of: The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office By Ilana Gershon, Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2024, 175 pp.

Camille Kroll

Review of: Infertile Environments: Epigenetic Toxicology and the Reproductive Health of Chinese Men By Janelle Lamoreaux, Durham: Duke University Press, 2022, 135 pp.

Jiawei Liu

Review of: Covid’s Chronicities: From Urgency to Stasis in a Pandemic Era By Lenore Manderson and Nancy J. Burke, eds. London: UCL Press, 2025, 405 pp.

Naomi Schoenfeld

Review of: A Tale of Two Surrogates: A Graphic Narrative on Assisted Reproduction By Elly Teman and Zsuzsa Berend, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2025, 208 pp.

Amal Sana Faizal

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