"The" "Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology" provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology. In this exciting departure from conventional handbooks, compendia and encyclopedias, the three editors have written the core chapters of the volume, and in so doing, invite the reader to reflect on the ethnographic richness and theoretical contributions of research on the clinic and the field, bioscience and medical research, infectious and communicable disease, biomedicine, complementary and alternative modalities, structural violence and vulnerability, gender and...