Bradley Stoner’s work on STDs in the US have identified indigenous “folk” patterns of STD treatment which, although inconsistent with biomedical views of disease, are nonetheless internally consistent with patients’ world views.

Bob Canfield is working on a ms. on connections between traditional practices of healing and conventional sources of power in Central Asia, “Efficacy and Hierarchy: Examples from Afghanistan.”

Lewis Wall has carried out field research on traditional medicine in West Africa (Hausa) and has an ongoing interest in the interrelations between bioscientific medicine and traditional belief systems in industrializing countries.

Chith Kudlu is conducting dissertation research on commodification of Ayurvedic medicine and ethnomedical knowledge in Kerala, India.