Introduction: What is Medical Anthropology?P. J. Brown, R. Barrett, and M. Padilla, Medical Anthropologies: An Introduction to the FieldsPART I: UNDERSTANDING MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGYBiosocial ApproachesEvolution, Health, and MedicineS. B. Eaton, M. Shostak, and M. Konner, Stone-agers in the Fast Lane L. Oliwenstein, Dr. DarwinHuman Biological VariationR. Martorell, Body Size, Adaptation, and Function C. Ritenbaugh and C. S. Goodby, Beyond the Thrifty Gene: Metabolic Implications of Prehistoric Migration into the New World M. Boutte, Genetic Prophecy: Promises and Perils for Late-Onset DiseasesBioarchaeology and HistoryG. Armelagos, Health and Disease in Prehistoric Populations in Transition T. McKeown, Determinants of HealthCultural and Political Ecologies of DiseaseP. J. Brown, Cultural Adaptations to Endemic Malaria in Sardinia R. Desowitz, The Fly That Would Be King P. Farmer, Social Inequalities and Emerging Infectious DiseasesCultural ApproachesBelief and Ethnomedical SystemsG. M. Foster, Disease Etiologies in Nonwestern Medical Systems K. Finkler, Sacred Healing and Biomedicine Compared C. Levi-Strauss, The Sorcerer and His Magic R. Hahn, The Nocebo Phenomenon: Concept, Evidence, and Implications for Public HealthThe Social Construction of Illness and the Social Production of HealthN. Waxler, Learning to be a Leper: A Case Study in the Social Construction of Illness L. Clark, Gender and Generation in Poor Women's Household Health Production ExperienceHealers in Cross-Cultural PerspectiveM. F. Brown, The Dark Side of Shaman M. Konner, Transcendental Medication P. Singer, Psychic Surgery: Close Observation of a Popular Healing PracticeCulture, Illness, and Mental HealthA. Kleinman, Do Psychiatric Disorders Differ in Different Cultures? A. Rubel, The Epidemiology of a Folk Illness: Susto in Hispanic AmericaCritical Medical AnthropologyN. Scheper-Hughes and M. M. Lock, The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology M. Singer, Beyond the Ivory Tower: Critical Praxis in Medical AnthropologyPART II: APPLYING MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGYCase Studies in Explanatory ModelsW. Dressler, Ethnomedical Beliefs and Patient Adherence to a Treatment Regimen: A St. Lucian Example Centers for Disease Control: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Health Beliefs and Compliance with Prescribed Medication among Black WomenNew Orleans 1985-86 M. Trawick, An Ayurvedic Theory of Cancer A. Harwood, The Hot-Cold Theory of Disease: Implications for the Treatment of Puerto-Rican PatientsEthnicity and Health CareR. A. Hahn, The State of Federal Health Statistics on Racial and Ethnic Groups M. S. Bates and W. T. Edwards, Ethnic Variations in the Chronic Pain Experience R. Trotter, A Case of Lead Poisoning from Folk Remedies M. Singer et al., Why Does Juan Garcia Have a Drinking Problem? E. A. Berlin and W. C. Fowkes, A Teaching Framework for Cross-Cultural Health CareStigma and Coping with Chronic IllnessG. Becker, Coping with Stigma: Lifelong Adaptation of Deaf People M. C. Inhorn, Genital Herpes: An Ethnographic Inquiry into Being Discreditable in American Society R. W. Murphy, The Damaged Self P. Farmer and A. Kleinmen, AIDS as Human SufferingGender and Women's HealthE. Martin, Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Menstruation and Menopause C. West, Routine Complications: Troubles with Talk between Doctors and Patients R. Rapp, Accounting for Amniocentesis N. Scheper-Hughes, Culture, Scarcity, and Maternal ThinkingCulture and Nutrition: Fat and ThinK. A. Dettwyler, The Biocultural Approach in Nutritional Anthropology: Case Studies of Malnutrition in Mali P. J. Brown and M. Konner, An Anthropological Perspective on ObesityInternational Health Issues and ProgramM. Nichter and E. Cartwright, Saving the Children for the Tobacco Industry C. Kendall, D. Foote, and R. Martorell, Ethnomedicine and Oral Rehydration Therapy K. Heggenhougen, The Epidemiology of Functional Apartheid and Human Rights Abuses