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It probably did not hurt Hasan’s case that physical anthropology had by this time become more biologically oriented, not only in terms of data favored but also in terms of questions asked. In any event, Foster was responsive: In revising the offending 1974 commentary for use in the first medical anthropology textbook, published in 1978 (twenty-plus years after Benjamin Paul edited the first casebook (1955)), Foster and his co-author Barbara Anderson took a more biologically informed position, even including a reference to Hasan.

Others, too, provided correctives. Take, for example, Medical Anthropology, which Gretel and Pertti (Bert) Pelto founded in 1977 (SMA was still at that time struggling to some degree with the generalist–specialist question and so only wanted a newsletter). The Peltos were committed to including a biological perspective, as reflected not only in the journal’s content but also in its editorial board (Gretel Pelto, Personal communication, December 18, 2008, and January 13, 2009). Also, a key teaching text first published in 1978 specifically highlighted biological and ecological perspectives (McElroy and Townsend 2004); and a 1980 textbook that took a biocultural approach proclaimed in its subtitle to be “expanding views of medical anthropology” (Moore et al. 1980).