About this journal

Anthropology & Medicine is dedicated to publishing papers that examine medicine, health and illness in an anthropological context. This broad field reflects the journal’s commitment to interdisciplinary research on the interrelationship between culture and health.

The journal publishes original papers, reviews, commentaries and debates within the broad framework of medical anthropology, for an international readership. In addition to usual recent book reviews, each issue of Anthropology & Medicine also includes The Canon, which features a reappraisal of a past text that may be considered unfashionably canonical, classical or at least of continuing interest in medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry. The journal also features regular guest edited thematic issues on contemporary topics. Please see the proposal guidelines here. Commentaries could be a statement of position by the author, response to a recent publication, or a standalone piece and does not need to be based on original fieldwork or research.

Anthropology & Medicine aims to develop ideas and stimulate debate about the interface between culture and health. We encourage our readers and authors to engage with the new theoretical developments in the field and to participate in current critical debates in the world around us. The journal provides a forum for exploring subjects such as the globalisation and politics of biomedicine, the spread and impact of new medical technologies, gender, reproduction and the body. Topics such as global health, migration and mobility, mental health, chronic illness and ageing are explored through scholarly papers to elucidate the way experiences of health and illness and medical practice are innately cultural. As an interdisciplinary journal, we encourage work that explores the connection between health practice and anthropology including cross cultural psychiatry and hospital and clinic based ethnographies. Anthropology & Medicine seeks to establish a critical platform for this diversity and promotes a cross-fertilisation of concepts at the borderland of culture and medicine.

Anthropology & Medicine addresses academics, practitioners and students in the following areas: medical anthropology; social anthropology; the anthropology of conflict, trauma and reconciliation; medical sociology; primary care medicine; psychiatry; psychology; psychotherapy; ethology; public health and nursing; social history; social work; social geography; and development studies.

The journal is signatory to the WHO joint statement (January 2004) issued by editors of scientific journals publishing mental health research from low and middle income countries. For details see: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/82/3/en/Perspective.pdf

The Section of Transcultural Psychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association endorses the publication of Anthropology & Medicine as a significant contribution to the scientific literature of transcultural psychiatry and its related disciplines.

Peer review policy

Taylor & Francis is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be single or double anonymized peer reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees.

Editor-in-Chief & Founding Editor:
Sushrut Jadhav - Division of Psychiatry, University College London, UK

Deputy Editors:
Sumeet Jain - University of Edinburgh, UK
Aaron Parkhurst - University College London, UK

Associate Editors:
Rochelle Burgess - University College London, UK
Dalia Iskander - University College London, UK
Ben Kasstan - London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Carrie Ryan - University College London, UK

Reviews Editor:
Roland Littlewood - Centre for Medical Anthropology, University College London, UK

Board of Editors:
Anne Becker - Harvard Medical School, USA
Roberto Beneduce - Frantz Fanon Centre, Italy
Gilles Bibeau - University of Montreal, Canada
Yoram Bilu - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Ivette Çardena - University of Mexico, Mexico
Stefan Ecks - University of Edinburgh, UK
Abdullahi Osman El-Tom - St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Eire
Guido Giarelli - Faculty of Medicine and Surgery University 'Magna Graecia', Italy
Sahra Gibbon - University College London, UK
David Goldberg - St George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK
Peter J Guarnaccia - Rutgers University, USA
Murphy Halliburton - City University of New York, New York, USA
Ian Harper - University of Edinburgh, UK
Elisabeth Hsu - University of Oxford, UK
Sudhir Kakar - Vikram Sarabhai Foundation, India
Vinay R. Kamat - The University of British Columbia, Canada
Susie Kilshaw - Centre for Medical Anthropology , University College London, UK
Laurence Kirmayer - McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Arthur Kleinman - Harvard University, USA
Inga-Britt Krause - University College London, UK
Helen Lambert - University of Bristol, UK
Murray Last - University College London, UK
Sing Lee - Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Rebecca Lester - Washington University, USA
Rebecca Lynch - Kings College London, UK
Begum Maitra - UK
Lenore Manderson - Monash University, Australia
Harry Minas - University of Melbourne, Australia
Sherill Mulhern - Laboratoire des Rumeurs, France
Neely Laurenzo Myers - Southern Methodist University, USA
Ashis Nandy - Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, India
David Napier - University College London, UK
Harish Naraindas - Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Charles Nuckolls - Brigham Young University, USA
Gananath Obeyesekere - Princeton University, USA & Sri Lanka
Brigit Obrist - Basel University, Switzerland
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney - University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan - Centre de la Vieille Charité, France
Mariella Pandolfi - University of Montreal, Canada and University of Rome, Italy
David Parkin - Oxford University, UK
Kaveri Qureshi - University of Edinburgh, UK
Richard Rechtman - Institut Marcel Rivière, France
Susan Reynolds-Whyte - University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Iman Roushdy-Hammaby - Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, USA
Vieda Skultans - University of Bristol, UK
Elisa Sobo - San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
Marilyn Strathern - University of Cambridge, UK
Koenraad Stroeken - University of Ghent, Netherlands
Maya Unnithan - University of Sussex, UK
Paul Unschuld - Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany
Sjaak van der Geest - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Piers Vitebsky - University of Cambridge, UK
Ehler Voss - University of Bremen, Germany
Bill Wedenoja - Southwest Missouri State University, USA
Mitchell Weiss - Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Switzerland
Allan Young - McGill University, Canada

Updated 20-06-2023