"First published in France as Anthropologie médicale: ancrages locaux, défis globaux."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bioscience and biotechnology under ethnographic surveillance : where do Canadian medical anthropologists stand? / Gilles Bibeau, Janice E. Graham, and Usher Fleising -- The anthropology of health in Québec : toward a blending of approaches and methods / Raymond Massé -- Medical anthropology in the United States / Arachu Castro and Paul Farmer -- Much more than medical anthropology : the healthy body and Brazilian identity / Annette Leibing -- Medical anthropology in Mexico : recent trends in research and education / Maria Beatriz Duarte-Gómez, Roberto Campos-Navarro, and Gustavo Nigenda -- Medical anthropology in France : a healthy discipline / Sylvie Fainzang -- Topographies, folklore and medical anthropology in Spain / Josep M. Comelles, Enrique Perdiguero, and Angel Martínez-Hernáez -- Suffering, politics, nation : a cartography of Italian medical anthropology / Mariella Pandolfi and Gilles Bibeau -- Medical anthropology(ies) in Germany / Angelika Wolf, Stefan Ecks, and Johannes Sommerfeld -- A cultural fascination with medicine : medical anthropology in the Netherlands / Sjaak Van der Geest -- British medical anthropology : past, present and future / Ronald Frankenberg -- Anthropology between medicine and society : Swiss health interfaces / Ilario Rossi -- Engendering medical anthropology / Carol H. Browner and Carolyn Sargent -- The politics of life : beyond the anthropology of health / Didier Fassin.