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Relational Chronicities: kinship, care and ethics of responsibility
Volume 30, Issue 3, 2023 pages 171-312
Chronic illness in South Asia
Volume 30, Issue 2, 2023 pages 81-170
New Chronicities
Volume 29, Issue 1, 2022 pages 1-121
Yoga Bodies, Yoga Minds: Contextualising the Health Discourses and Practices of Modern Postural Yoga
Volume 28, Issue 3, 2021 pages 279-410
Medicine's Shadowside: Revisiting Clinical Iatrogenesis
Volume 28, Issue 2, 2021 pages 141-278
The Apocalyptic and Other Crises: Ethnographies of Morality, Health, and Wellbeing in Futures at Risk
Volume 28, Issue 1, 2021 pages 1-139
Conceiving Contemporary Parenthood: Imagining, Achieving and Accounting for Parenthood in New Family Forms
Volume 25, Issue 3, 2018 pages 243-355
Genomics and Genetic Medicine
Volume 25, Issue 1, 2018 pages 1-120
The Fragile Medical: The Slippery Terrain between Medicine, Anthropology and Societies
Volume 24, Issue 3, 2017 pages 241-367
Diverse bodies: the challenge of new theoretical approaches to medical anthropology
Volume 24, Issue 2, 2017 pages 131-x
'Medical pluralism and beyond' for 'Anthropology & Medicine'
Volume 23, Issue 2, 2016 pages 129-227
Museum of Failed HIV Research
Volume 22, Issue 3, 2015 pages 213-337
Mediating Medical Technologies: Flows, Frictions and New Socialities
Volume 21, Issue 2, 2014 pages 107-263
Social suffering and the culture of compassion in a morally-divided China
Volume 21, Issue 1, 2014 pages 1-105
Therapeutic crises, diversification and mainstreaming
Volume 20, Issue 2, 2013 pages 117-207
Irrational reproduction: new intersections of politics, gender, race, and class across the north-south divide
Volume 19, Issue 2, 2012 pages 137-259
Medical Anthropology in Europe: shaping the field
Volume 19, Issue 1, 2012 pages 1-135
Shrines, substances and medicine in sub-Saharan Africa: archaeological, anthropological, and historical perspectives
Volume 18, Issue 2, 2011 pages 145-302
Healing holidays? Itinerant patients, therapeutic locales and the quest for health
Volume 18, Issue 1, 2011 pages 1-144
Towards an era of bureaucratically controlled medical compliance?
Volume 17, Issue 2, 2010 pages 113-247
Biomedical Technology and Health Inequities in the Global North and South
Volume 16, Issue 2, 2009 pages 97-228
When the Field is a Ward or a Clinic: Hospital Ethnography
Volume 15, Issue 2, 2008 pages 69-149

Special issue information

Anthropology and Medicine publishes 1-2 Special Issues a year. These Guest Edited issues of the journal have covered a range of topics of interest to our readers including new medical technologies, suffering and compassion in China, failed HIV research and medical anthropology in Europe.

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