From the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School (A.E.B., A.K.), and the Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital (A.E.B.) — both in Boston; and the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (A.K.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Kleinman at the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland St...

The literature on the diffusion of rural innovations in Third World countries reveals a spectrum of approaches to the diffusion process. It is argued here that the effectiveness of a particular approach in the diffusion of particular innovations would depend on the technical, the economic and the social characteristics of the innovations. A typology of innovations in terms of these characterist...

Nursing in the Western world developed mainly as an applied field, and has contributed to social-cultural theory only in the past 30 years. The purpose of this presentation is to document (a) the contributions of nursing to medical anthropology, (b) the influence anthropology has had on nursing, (c) the differences between the interface of nursing and anthropology and that of medicine and anthr...