Medical anthropology aimed at health profissionals. Its practic al relevance is both for medical care and preventive medicine. [contents] The scope of medical anthropology; cultural definitions of anatomy and physiology; diet and nutrition; caring and curing; doctorpaatient intercations; pain and culture; culture and pharmacology; ritual and the management of misfortune; transcultural psychiatry; cultural aspects of stress; cultural factors in epidemiolgy; clinical questionnaires