The Medical Anthropology Program introduces students to major theoretical approaches to health, medicine and society. The program is research oriented and emphasizes political economy, post-structuralism, interpretive theory and critical analysis of health care and health policy.

• Health and Political Economy
• Health Policy
• Medical Systems
• Ethnicity, Class, Gender, and Health Inequality
• Medicine, Science and Technology
• Religion, Ritual and Healing
• Alternative Medicine and Ethnomedicine
• Culture of Biomedicine
• Bioethics
• Psychological Anthropology
• Anthropology of the Body
• Environment and Health
• Health and Subjectivites
• Geographic Areas: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Latin America, United States

Training in the program includes graduate seminars in medical anthropology and course work tailored to meet students' interests. Additional course work includes the department's requirements in sociocultural or biocultural anthropology.

Graduates hold faculty positions in the U.S. and abroad as well as in nonacademic employment. The latter include positions evaluating government programs, administering medical services, overseeing the review of medical research proposals, and carrying out research on health. The Medical Anthropology Faculty have specific collaborations with a variety of centers and institutes across MSU including: African Studies Center, Asian Studies Center, Center for Advanced Study of International Development, Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies Julian Samora Research Institute, Women & International Development Program.

Recent M.A. and Ph.D. Research by Graduate Students:

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