Medical Anthropology
Robert Pool and Wenzel Geissler
Recent decades have seen growing participation by medical anthropologists in medical research and public health, and medical anthropology has become the
single largest subdiscipline in anthropology.
Nowadays an increasing number of
medical research projects (at least once they progress beyond the initial laboratorybased phase) and public health interventions involve medical anthropologists – or
closely related social science disciplines – in some capacity. Increasingly, anthropologists and health professionals work hand-in-hand in an interdisciplinary effort
to alleviate suffering.
