A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities brings together exemplary articles on the key theoretical approaches in the field of medical anthropology and related science and technology studies. The editors' comprehensive introductions evaluate the historical lineages of this research and its value in addressing critical problems associated with contemporary forms of illness experience. Presents a key selection of both classic and new agenda-setting articles in medical anthropology Provides analytic and historical contextual introductions by leading figures in medical anthropology, medical sociology, and science and technology studies Demonstrates and examines the contribution of medical anthropology to a new global health movement aimed at reshaping international health agendas

Byron J. Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Sarah S. Willen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. She has been an NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and has taught in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good is Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and in the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.