文化現象としての病いと健康を人類学の方法論を通して考察する医療人類学の分野の中でも、その「保健＝健康の政治経済学 Political Economy of Health」版とも言える、批判的医療人類学（Critical Medical Anthropology, CMA）について、複数ののテキストの検討を通して学ぶ。

◆　医療人類学辞典

テキスト：

Brown, Peter J. [compiled by] 1998. Understanding and applying medical anthropology. Mountain View, Calif. : Mayfield Pub. Co., c1998

Kleinman, Arthur. 1980, Patients and healers in the context of culture : an exploration of the borderland between anthropology, medicine, and psychiatry. Berkeley : University of California Press　（邦訳あり＝臨床人類学 : 文化のなかの病者と治療者 / アーサー・クラインマン [著] ; 大橋英寿 [ほか] 共訳. -- 弘文堂, 1992）

Cohen, Lawrence .1998　No aging in India : Alzheimer's, the bad family, and other modern things. Berkeley : University of California Press.

Manderson,Lenore., 1996. Sickness and the state : health and illness in colonial Malaya, 1870-1940. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996

Julie Margot Feinsilver, 1993.Healing the masses : Cuban health politics at home and abroad. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press.

Scheper-Hughes, N.1992. Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Singer, M. and H. Baer (1995), Critical Medical Anthroplogy. Amityville,New York: Baywood.