imperative. Other anthropologists, critical of the medical Whether as clinicians, outside consultants,or world view, find themselves in the uncomfortable therapists, there are numerous situations where medical position of being asked to find out why the natives are anthropologists can contribute to clinical or preventive restless, and what can be done to improve their medicine. Obviously, for this to be possible, their contribution must be recognized by both government Nevertheless, despite these problems, it will become and health authorities, as well as by those responsible mportant in the future for medical anthropologists to for undergraduate medical education be perceived as having a specific, though independent ea of expertise, which is relevant to health care and 1. For "Type a personality see also Freedman, M.& preventive medicine. Above all, doctors will have to be Rosenman, ociation of specific overt behaviour onvinced of the usefulness of having anthropologists pattern wit avascular findings. Journal of the permanently on the faculties of medical schools and American blood an cadio ion, vol. 169. 10 hospitals- and of their value in designing systems of health care which are humane, culturally appropriate, Further Reading Note: There is now a considerable literature on clinically applied and cost-effective. In the United States by contrast, medical anthropology. The following list of publications is onl applied medical anthropology is well established. Many a partial one, but it covers some of the main works on the subject major medical schools have one or more medical published in the last eight years anthropologists on their staff; in many of these, they are integrated with departments of family or community Chrisman, Noel J. and Maretzki, Thomas W(eds)198 medicine, psychiatry, or schools of nursing. In these Clinically applied anthropology: Anthropologists departments, they are not only involved in teaching and science settings D Reidel Publishing Company research, but also provide a 'consultation-liaison service Foster, George M and Anderson, Barbara G. 1978. Medical providing expertise in cases where the socio-cultural anthropology, John Wiley and Sons background of the patient is relevant to diagnosis or Physicians of western medicine, DReidel Publishing Company. anthropologists working in clinical settings in the USA Harwood, Alan(ed) 1981. Ethnicity and medical care, (as well as strategies to increase their input into medical Helman, Cecil G. 1984. Culture, Health and llness: An care)are included in Chrisman and Maretzki's Clinically introduction for health professionals, John Wright and Sons Applied Anthropology, and in a recent issue of Kleinman, Arthur. 1980. Patients and healers in the context Medical Anthropology quarterly. Overall, it is among of culture, University of California Pi psychiatrists, family physicians, community physicians, Landy, David. (ed) 1977. Culture, disease, and healing nurses, midwives, and health educators that medical Macmillan anthropology has been most welcome in the USA-and the situation is similar in Britain alienists: ethnic minorities and psychiatry, Pe Anthropologists are in a unique position if they ar Marsella, Anthony J and White, Geoffrey M.(eds )1982 also trained as doctors or nurses. With this ' double vision they are hopefully able to bring an extra Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 1985, Vol. 16, No 3, dimension to their daily medical work- and a more pp59-7 ethnographic, qualitative, and comparative approach to Romanucci-Ross, Lola an, Daniel E and Tancredi, their research. It is also easier for them to be invisible Laurence R(eds)1983. The anthropology of medicine, Bergin field-workers, viewing the medical profession from and Garvey within its high walls. But it also raises the usual questions World Health Organization. 1978 The promotion and of applied anthropology: to what extent can one development of traditional medicine, WHO Technical Report successfully be both participant and observer, especially Series. No 622. in a clinical setting? How long can one remain an academic voyeur, in the presence of suffering or death? evertheless, the number of those in this po●●●●●●●●●●●●●● many more in the USA where MD-PhD and MD-MA programmes in medical anthropology are producing Research in Social Anth more graduates each year. It remains to be seen whethe 1975-1980 his will lead to a new generation of more humane Editor: Jonathan Webber clinicians or whether their new attitudes will be Register of Theses in Social frustrated by the medical systems in which they work Anthropology accepted for Psychotherapists are another group likely to find Higher Degrees at British anthropology of clinical value. In particular, the area Universities 1975-80. It was of family therapy is a promising one for anthropologists commissioned by the Social to work in, especially since the growth of the systems Anthropology Committee of the approach. This views the family as a complex system SSRC (now Economic and Social of relationships, which aims to maintain homoeostasis, Research Council. Abstracts of even at the cost of scapegoating one of its members nearly all the theses are included, Although one can recognize a dubious functionalism and they are indexed by author; by underlying this approach, I think it is possible- at least university; by country; by peopl in some contexts- to see the family as a partially cultures; and by subject. solated small-scale society. Some of the work of victor xliii, 425 pp. Hardback Turner on the symbolic resolution of social conflict ma ￡14/USs22, paperback￡8/USs13 well be relevant here, and should be explored further (25o discount for Fellows of the Anthropological concepts are beginning to enter famil RAi, post paid from RAI therapy, but often in the distorted form of ethnic Distribution Centre. Blackhorse tereotypes -the Italian family, 'the Irish familyand Rd, Letchworth SG6 1HN, Herts