Includes bibliographical references (p. 581-589).

1. Backing into the future / Charles Leslie -- 2. Menopause : lessons from anthropology / Margaret Lock -- 3. Why not call modern medicine alternative? / Don G. Bates -- 4. Concepts of arthritis in India's medical traditions : Ayurvedic and Unani perspectives / Judy F. Pugh -- 5. Homeopathic medicine in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico : patients' perspectives and observations / Michael B. Whiteford -- 6. The epistemology of traditional healing systems / Russel Barsh -- 7. Perturbing the system : "hard science", "soft science", and social science, the anxiety and madness of method / Joan Cassell -- 8. Clown doctors : Shaman healers of Western medicine / Linda Miller Van Blerkom -- 9. Shamanism and its discontents / Michael Fobes Brown -- 10. Distal nursing / Ruth E. Malone --

11. Witnessing and the medical gaze : how medical students learn to see at a free clinic for the homeless / Beverly Ann Davenport -- 12. Living at the edge of space / Christopher Wills -- 13. The co-evolution of people, plants, and parasites : biological and cultural adaptations to malaria / Nina L. Etkin -- 14. The vital role of the skin in human natural history / Bruce A. Cohn -- 15. Why genes don't count (for racial differences in health) / Alan H. Goodman -- 16. Evolution and the origins of disease / Randolph M. Nesse and George C. Williams -- 17. Evolutionary health promotion / S. Boyd Eaton, Beverly I. Strassman, Randolph M. Nesse, James V. Neel, Paul W. Ewald, George C. Williams, Alan B. Weder, Stanley B. Eaton III, Staffan Lindeberg, Melvin J. Konner, Iver Mysterud and Loren Cordain --

18. Evolutionary health promotion : a consideration of common counterarguments / S. Boyd Eaton, Loren Cordain and Staffan Lindeberg -- 19. Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases : the third epidemiologic transition / Ronald Barrett, Christopher W. Kuzawa, Thomas McDade and George J. Armelagos -- 20. Health conditions before Columbus : paleopathology of native North Americans / Debra L. Martin and Alan H. Goodman -- 21. A comparison of health complaints of settled and nomadic Turkana men / Nanette L. Barkey, Benjamin C. Campbell and Paul W. Leslie -- 22. The resurgence of disease : social and historical perspectives on the "new" tuberculosis / Matthew Gandy and Alimuddin Zumla -- 23. Implications of pandemic influenza for bioterrorism response / Monica Schoch-Spana --

24. Health implications of modern agricultural transformations : malaria and pellagra in Italy / Peter J. Brown and Elizabeth D. Whitaker -- 25. Ecology and ethnomedicine : exploring links between current environmental crisis and indigenous medical practices / Charles Anyinam -- 26. Cultural meaning, explanations of illness, and the development of comparative frameworks / Linda C. Garro -- 27. The mindful body : a prolegomenon to future work in medical anthropology / Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Margaret M. Lock -- 28. Breast cancer : reading the omens / Margaret Lock -- 29. Refugee stress and folk belief : Hmong sudden deaths / Shelley R. Adler -- 30. Deconstructing the placebo effect and finding the meaning response / Daniel E. Moerman and Wayne B. Jonas --

31. Possible efficacy of a Creek folk medicine through skin absorption : an object lesson in ethnopharmacology / Michelle M. Alexander and J. Anthony Paredes -- 32. Cultural contexts of ebola in northern Uganda / Barry S. Hewlett and Richard P. Amola -- 33. Health beliefs and folk models of diabetes in British Bangladeshis : a qualitative study / Trisha Greenhalgh, Cecil Helman and A. Mu'min Chowdhury -- 34. Social scientists and the "new" tuberculosis / Paul Farmer -- 35. Embodiment of terror : gendered violence in peacetime and wartime in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina / Maria B. Olujic -- 36. Immigrants from Chernobyl-affected areas in Israel : the link between health and social adjustment / L. I. Remennick -- 37. Partner notification in context : Swedish and Zambian experiences / Elisabeth A. Faxelid and Kristina M. Ramstedt --

38. Erasmus, syphilis, and the abuse of stigma / Christopher J. M. Whitty -- 39. Under the shadow of Tuskegee : African Americans and health care / Vanessa Northington Gamble -- 40. Does racism harm health? Did child abuse exist before 1962? : on explicit questions, critical science, and current controversies : an ecosicial perspective / Nancy Krieger -- 41. Getting the numbers right : statistical mischief and racial profiling in heart failure research / Jonathan Kahn -- 42. The double puzzle of diabetes / Jared Diamond -- 43. Ethics, epidemiology and the thrifty gene : biological determinism as a health hazard / Robyn McDermott -- 44. Eating dirt / Gerald N. Callahan -- 45. Using drug foods to capture and enhance labor performance : a cross-cultural perspective / William Jankowiak and Dan Bradburd --

46. The state of mind of vegetarians : psychological well-being or distress? / Marjaana Lindeman -- 47. Breastfeeding, breast cancer, and the sudden infant death syndrome in anthropological perspective / Elizabeth D. Whitaker -- 48. Growth in indigenous and nonindigenous Chilean schoolchildren from three poverty strata / Patricia Bustos, Hugh Amigo, Sergio R. Munoz and Reynaldo Martorell -- 49. Genders, sexes, and health : what are the connections, and why does it matter? / Nancy Krieger -- 50. Female-selective abortion in Asia : patterns, policies, and debates / Barbara D. Miller -- 51. Women from polygamous and monogamous marriages in an out-patient psychiatric clinic / Alean Al-Krenawi -- 52. "The worst hassle is you can't play rugby" : haemophilia and masculinity in New Zealand / Julie Park -- 53. Doing gender, doing surgery : women surgeons in a man's profession / Joan Cassell --

54. The cow tipping point / David Ehrenfeld -- 55. Keeping an eye on the global traffic in human organs / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- 56. Therapeutic and reproductive cloning : a critique / Finn Bowring.