| 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. | Robert Canfield’s study of the ways traditional practices of healing and delivering undergird conventional positions of power in Central Asia is soon to be published. | 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. |