1. Introduction: the scope of medical anthropology -- 2. Cultural definitions of anatomy and physiology -- 3. Diet and nutrition -- 4. Caring and curing: the sectors of health care -- 5. Doctor-patient interactions -- 6. Gender and reproduction -- 7. Pain and culture -- 8. Culture and pharmacology -- 9. Ritual and the management of misfortune -- 10. Cross-cultural psychiatry -- 11. Cultural aspects of stress -- 12. Cultural factors in epidemiology -- 13. Medical anthropology and global health -- 14. New research methods in medical anthropology
