Medical anthropology is definitely a thing. It studies the cultural aspects of medicine: popular beliefs about the nature of health and sickness, attitudes towa

Medical anthropology is definitely a thing. It studies the cultural aspects of medicine: popular beliefs about the nature of health and sickness, attitudes toward treatment, the relationship between doctors and patients, etc. Given the complicated and often counterproductive beliefs about disease control in the US today, it feels like a pretty important field. A popular science title from this area is The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, about the relationship between a Hmong family with an epileptic child and their doctors. I think it's often assigned reading for students in the medical professions.