Includes bibliographical references (p. 581-589).

Backing into the future / Charles Leslie -- Menopause: lessons from anthropology / Margaret Lock -- Why not call modern medicine alternative? / Don G. Bates -- Concepts of arthritis in India's medical traditions: Ayurvedic and Unani perspectives / Judy F. Pugh -- Homeopathic medicine in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico: patients' perspectives and observations / Michael B. Whiteford -- The epistemology of traditional healing systems / Russel Barsh -- Perturbing the system: "hard science," "soft science," and social science, the anxiety and madness of method / Joan Cassell -- Clown doctors: Shaman healers of Western medicine / Linda Miller Van Blerkom --

Shamanism and its discontents / Michael Fobes Brown -- Distal nursing / Ruth E. Malone -- Witnessing and the medical gaze: how medical students learn to see at a free clinic for the homeless / Beverly Ann Davenport -- Living at the edge of space / Christopher Wills -- The co-evolution of people, plants, and parasites: biological and cultural adaptations to malaria / Nina L. Etkin -- The vital role of the skin in human natural history / Bruce A. Cohn -- Why genes don't count (for racial differences in health) / Alan H. Goodman -- Evolution and the origins of disease / Randolph M. Nesse and George C. Williams -- Evolutionary health promotion / S. Boyd Eaton ... [et al.] --

Evolutionary health promotion: a consideration of common counterarguments / S. Boyd Eaton, Loren Cordain, and Staffan Lindeberg -- Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: the third epidemiologic transition / Ronald Barrett ... [et al.] -- Health conditions before Columbus: paleopathology of native North Americans / Debra L. Martin and Alan H. Goodman -- A comparison of health complaints of settled and nomadic Turkana men / Nanette L. Barkey, Benjamin C. Campbell, and Paul W. Leslie -- The resurgence of disease: social and historical perspectives on the "new" tuberculosis / Matthew Gandy and Alimuddin Zumla -- Implications of pandemic influenza for bioterrorism response / Monica Schoch-Spana --

Health implications of modern agricultural transformations: malaria and pellagra in Italy / Peter J. Brown and Elizabeth D. Whitaker -- Ecology and ethnomedicine: exploring links between current environmental crisis and indigenous medical practices / Charles Anyinam -- Cultural meaning, explanations of illness, and the development of comparative frameworks / Linda C. Garro -- The mindful body: a prolegomenon to future work in medical anthropology / Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Margaret M. Lock -- Breast cancer: reading the omens / Margaret Lock -- Refugee stress and folk belief: Hmong sudden deaths / Shelley R. Adler --

Deconstructing the placebo effect and finding the meaning response / Daniel E. Moerman and Wayne B. Jonas -- Possible efficacy of a Creek folk medicine through skin absorption: an object lesson in ethnopharmacology / Michelle M. Alexander and J. Anthony Paredes -- Cultural contexts of Ebola in northern Uganda / Barry S. Hewlett and Richard P. Amola -- Health beliefs and folk models of diabetes in British Bangladeshis: a qualitative study / Trisha Greenhalgh, Cecil Helman, and A Mu'min Chowdhury -- Social scientists and the new tuberculosis / Paul Farmer -- Embodiment of terror: gendered violence in peacetime and wartime in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina / Maria B. Olujic --

Immigrants from Chernobyl-affected areas in Israel: the link between health and social adjustment / L.I. Remennick -- Partner notification in context: Swedish and Zambian experiences / Elisabeth A. Faxelid and Kristina M. Ramstedt -- Erasmus, syphilis, and the abuse of stigma / Christopher J.M. Whitty -- Under the shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and health care / Vanessa Northington Gamble -- Does racism harm health? Did child abuse exist before 1962? On explicit questions, critical science, and current controversies: an ecosocial perspective / Nancy Krieger -- Getting the numbers right: statistical mischief and racial profiling in heart failure research / Jonathan Kahn --

The double puzzle of diabetes / Jared Diamond -- Ethics, epidemiology and the thrifty gene: biological determinism as a health hazard / Robyn McDermott -- Eating dirt / Gerald N. Callahan -- Using drug foods to capture and enhance labor performance: a cross-cultural perspective / William Jankowiak and Dan Bradburd -- The state of mind of vegetarians: psychological well-being or distress? / Marjaana Lindeman -- Breastfeeding, breast cancer, and the sudden infant death syndrome in anthropological perspective / Elizabeth D. Whitaker -- Growth in indigenous and nonindigenous Chilean schoolchildren from three poverty strata / Patricia Bustos ... [et al.] --

Genders, sexes, and health: what are the connections, and why does it matter? / Nancy Krieger -- Female-selective abortion in Asia: patterns, policies, and debates / Barbara D. Miller -- Women from polygamous and monogamous marriages in an out-patient psychiatric clinic / Alean Al-Krenawi -- "The worst hassle is you can't play rugby": haemophilia and masculinity in New Zealand / Julie Park -- Doing gender, doing surgery: women surgeons in a man's profession / Joan Cassell -- The cow tipping point / David Ehrenfeld -- Keeping an eye on the global traffic in human organs / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Therapeutic and reproductive cloning: a critique / Finn Bowring.