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Medical anthropology grew dramatically in the last decades of the twentieth century, partly due to increased opportunities for applied medical anthropologists. But non-applied anthropologists interested in health saw that they, too, had something to gain by being identified as medical anthropologists. For one thing, those who affiliated with the subfield gained somewhat increased credibility in biomedicine and public health, and easier access to work within such organizations. This was and remains important to many medical anthropologists from the Global South, where anthropologists have generally had less interest in (and less support for) purely academic work (Laurie Krieger, personal communication, June 21, 2020; and see Mvetumbo et al. 2020). But also, the field’s relevance to theories regarding culture had grown more obvious. This trend intensified as the millennium drew near, due in part to richly ethnographic contributions in Dutch and Nordic medical anthropology (Ingstad and Talle 2009).