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This emphasis on work undertaken at the periphery or even extra-disciplinarily and then returned to the anthropological fold also was seen in the SMA’s 2009 conference theme, “Medical Anthropology at the Intersections,” which highlighted work in twelve areas: global public health, mental health, medical history, feminism and technoscience, science and technology studies, genetics/genomics, bioethics, public policy, occupational science, disability studies, gender/sexuality studies, international and area studies. Convener Marcia Inhorn, reminiscent of Marcus, identified these disciplines as housing “the cutting edges of our field” (2007, p. 249).

The emphasis on interdisciplinarity has been accompanied by a new appreciation for applied research: practicing anthropologists who have not contributed to anthropology through publications became eligible for SMA awards in 2004, when the George Foster Practicing Anthropology Award was instituted. Concurrently, the subfield began to address constructively its low profile by engaging more thoughtfully in discussion regarding dissemination. Although public and clinical health professionals have increasingly appreciated the anthropological perspective, work for hire has commonly been appropriated without attribution; and many in the subfield continue to find writing for non-anthropologists quite a challenge (see Sobo 2009).