Medical Anthropology Quarterly: info for contributors
The Medical Anthropology Quarterly: International Journal for the Analysis of Health publishes research and theory in the field of medical anthropology. This field is broadly taken to include all inquiries into health, disease, illness, and sickness in human individuals and populations that are undertaken from the holistic and cross-cultural perspective distinctive of anthropology as a discipline, that is, with an awareness of species' biological, cultural, linguistic, and historical uniformity and variation. It encompasses, but is not limited to, studies of ethnomedicine, epidemiology, maternal and child health, population, nutrition, human development in relation to health and disease, health-care providers and services, public health, health policy, and the language and speech of health and health care.
The journal's purpose is to stimulate debate on and development of ideas and methods in medical anthropology and to explore the relationships of medical anthropology to health practice, the parent discipline of anthropology, and other disciplines concerned with human illness and wellness. To accomplish these ends, the editor particularly welcomes theoretical and conceptual articles, as well as those that present the results of theory-based research. Research reviews, reports of applied research, and articles that use the special subject matter of medical anthropology to contribute to central problems in anthropology are also encouraged. Manuscripts that approach health, disease, and illness from a biological, cultural, linguistic, or holistic perspective will be considered.
Medical Anthropology Quarterly will publish articles, review articles, book reviews, and occasional film reviews. Review articles and book and film reviews will be solicited by the relevant editor. All manuscript submissions will be anonymously referred by at least three reviewers.
Submitting Your Manuscript
As of April 2008, all manuscripts are now required to be submitted online through Manuscript Central, a web-based, database-driven peer review and online submission application for scholarly publishers, used by Wiley-Blackwell, publisher of Medical Anthropology Quarterly. When it goes live, it can be reached at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/maq
Follow the directions there to create an account and start the submission process.
If you have difficulty submitting your manuscript, please contact us at maqsma@wayne.edu or mccarthy@wayne.edu
Medical Anthropology Quarterly uses the
AAA Style Guide, which can be accessed through
the AAA website at http://www.aaanet.org/pubs/style_guide.htm.
Editorial board members are available for consultation
with potential contributors about the development
of their manuscripts. Authors should not submit
their manuscripts to other journals or to edited
books while they are under consideration by Medical
Anthropology Quarterly.
Editors:
Mark Luborsky
Andrea Sankar
Correspondence related to permissions, subscription and membership, advertising, changes of address, and all other areas should be sent to:
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
American Anthropological Association
4350 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 640
Arlington, VA 22203-1620
As determined by the Awards Committee of the Society for Medical Anthropology, the best article published in each volume of MAQ receives the Polgar Prize.