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Partially to better demonstrate ties to the parent discipline the GMA continued to push the AAA (which at that time did not have “sections”) to create a mechanism for its affiliation with AAA as a subgroup. Eventually, largely due to the GMA’s own organizing efforts, this came to pass (see Weidman 1986, pp. 121, 124): the group adopted a “constitution” in 1970, incorporated, and in 1972 became an official AAA “affiliate” (Society for Medical Anthropology 1975). This move firmly anchored the group – now the Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA) – within academic anthropology, although many members remained SfAA members also. Additionally, partly because anthropologists eschewing applied work tended not to join SMA née GMA (cf. Good 1994, p. 4), the influence of applied perspectives remained strong. Many SMA members were employed in schools of medicine, nursing, or public health or in the international and public health fields. The authority of biomedical clinical culture, where curative work and saving lives takes precedence, was manifest (Singer 1992a).