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The strong cultural bent among the subfield’s main organizers was reflected in the seven goals drafted by the initial steering committee of the emerging network of medical anthropologists: Biological factors received no mention. Furthermore, all of the goals stressed communication (Browner 1997). This was likely in part because, while physical (today’s “biological”) anthropologists had been working and publishing in and with medicine since anthropology’s inception, cultural anthropologists as a whole were still at that time rather new to cross-disciplinary communication and seemed uncomfortable in the medical milieu. In comparison to their physical/biological counterparts, they generally lacked easy access to it anyhow and could claim little authority within it. Cultural scholars’ desire for increased intellectual discourse, reflected in the goals list, also drove the creation of newsletters and forums that would become the subfield’s flagship journals, cementing its anthropological institutionalization, providing venues for specifically anthropological dissemination.