Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Virtual Issue: Malaria & Infectious Disease

In honor of World Malaria Day (April 25),
MAQ presents a virtual issue on Malaria and Infectious Disease.

According to the World Health Organization, approximately half of the world's population is at risk of malaria, particularly those living in lower-income countries. The articles in the virtual issue below demonstrate ways that ethnography and human behavior studies help to change care management and public health policy.

The Straw that Breaks the Camel’s Back: Re-directing Health-seeking Behavior Studies on Malaria and Vulnerability
Joan Muela-Ribera.
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, March 2011

Malaria, Danger, and Risk Perceptions among the Yao in Rural Malawi
Annika Launiala and Marja-Liisa Honkasalo
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, September 2010

Anthropology and Environmental Policy: What Counts
Susan Charnley and William H. Durham
American Anthropologist, September 2010

Healing Herbs and Dangerous Doctors: “Fruit Fever” and Community Conflicts with Biomedical Care in Northeast Thailand
Jen Pylypa
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, December 2007

A Practical Discussion of Applied Public Health Research in the Context of Complex Emergencies: Examples from Malaria Control in Refugee Camps
Holly Ann Williams and Peter B. Bloland
NAPA Bulletin, May 2001

The Ethnoecology of Dengue Fever
Linda Whiteford
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, June 1997

Urbanization, Dengue, and the Health Transition: Anthropological Contributions to International Health
Carl Kendall, Patricia Hudelson, Elli Leontsini, Peter Winch, Linda Lloyd and Fernando Cruz
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, September 1991