1. What?s so cultural about disease? -- 2. Anthropological questions and methods in the study of sickness and healing -- 3. Recognizing biological, social, and cultural interconnections : evolutionary and ecological perspectives on a cholera epidemic -- 4. Expanding the vision of medical anthropology : critical and interpretive views of the cholera epidemic -- 5. The global petri dish -- 6. Healers and the healing professions -- 7. Drugs : a fieldwork encounter with drugs -- 8. Applying medical anthropology -- 9. Anthropology and medical ethics -- 10. A look back and a glance ahead.