Reddit reviews Medical anthropology (Understanding Public Health)

I am not in bio-anthropology, but have read much within political and economic anthropology. People who have not read anthropology or done research using ethnography or other methodologies probably need a basic introduction before anything can be said. In anthropology and ecology, uncertainty and complexity are all right. Economists, for example, can claim to be "scientists" because they assume away any aspects of human behavior that cause the equations to lose their elegance. Unfortunately, this also destroys the usefulness of economics in understanding what really goes on in core economic areas such as business. A good book to read, for demonstrating the usefulness of anthropological methodologies compared to economics, is Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street. Have you read anything by Robert Pool, for example http://www.amazon.com/Medical-Anthropology-Understanding-Public-Health/dp/0335218504