Special Interest Groups: home
The Society for Medical Anthropology supports several committees and caucuses which address the unique interests and needs of our membership. These Special Interest Groups offer linkages to scholars with shared concerns and sponsor informational newsletters, award competitions and projects. The current interest groups are listed below.
- If you belong to a group for which there is no information, please submit information to the webmaster, or, alternatively, create your own website and request a link from the SMA site.
Currently, the SMA sponsors twelve Special Interest Groups:
- Medical Anthropology Students Association (MASA)
- AIDS and Anthropology Research Group (AARG)
- Alcohol, Drug, and Tobacco Study Group (ADTSG)
- Bioethics Interest Group
- Clinically Applied Medical Anthropology (CAMA)
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Integrative Medicine (IM) Group
- Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR)
- Council on Infant and Child Health & Welfare (CICH)
- Council on Nursing and Anthropology (CNA)
- Critical Anthropology of Global Health Study Group (CAGH)
- Disability Research Interest Group
- Global Health and Emerging Diseases Study Group (merged with CAGH group, above)
- Science, Technology, and Medicine (STM) Group (Please note, this group has recently merged with the Pharmaceutical Studies Group)
