This list addresses the needs and concerns of medical anthropology graduate students, practicing anthropologists, scholars, and scholar activists who address issues of local, national and international health importance. The list and its accompanying web sites form the hub of an active research community and a storehouse for information supporting the endeavors of medical anthropologists and their colleagues in allied social science fields.

- Request for Manuscript Submissions - Disasters in the field  Gillian Ice and Darna Dufour at field.disasters@oucom.ohiou.edu - Spirits with Scalpels: Cultural Biology of Religious Healing...  Jennifer Collier <Jennifer@LCoastPress.com> - Cyberounds: Quantum of (Nephro) Solace  Dr Harry Levy <levy@cyberounds.com> - announcement of NEH Summer Seminar on "Disease in the Middle Ages"  Monica Green <Monica.Green@asu.edu> - theory in med anth in past few decades  Elisa Sobo, esobo@mail.sdsu.edu - Special Edition on Health Sector Reform in Venezuela  Joan Paluzzi JEPALUZZ <JEPALUZZ@uncg.edu> - Kellogg Health Scholars Program, 2009 Call for Applications, 12/03/2008 DEADLINE APPROACHING!  Kellogg Health Scholars Program <healthscholars@cfah.org>