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Academic medical anthropology in the twenty-first century encompasses the domains of individual experience, discourse, knowledge, practice, and meaning; the social, political, and economic relations of health and illness; the nature of interactions between biology and culture; the ecology of health and illness; the cross-cultural study of ethnomedical systems and healing practices; and the interpretation of human suffering and health concerns in space and time (Baer et al. 2003; Erickson 2008; Joralemon 1999; Lock and Scheper-Hughes 1996; McElroy and Townsend 2009; Nichter 1992; Sargent and Johnson 1996; Scheper-Hughes and Lock 1987; Singer and Baer 2007). Applied medical anthropology takes on the responsibility of making research useful for clinical or health educational applications, for influencing health policy, or for effecting social justice (Erickson 2003; Rylko-Bauer et al. 2006; Singer and Baer 2007), continuing the founding theme of bettering the public health. Despite our different interests, “our great strength is our diversity of theory and method, our holistic approach, our willingness to cross disciplinary boundaries, and our insistence on social justice” (Erickson 2003:4).