Curare (magazine)
| Curare - Journal of Medical Anthropology
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| description | Science magazine |
| Area of Expertise | Ethnology, medicine |
| language | German English |
| publishing company | WVB - Publishing House for Science and Education (Germany) |
| Headquarters | Berlin |
| First edition | 1978 |
| Frequency of publication | 4 issues annually |
| Editor | Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnologie und Medizin e. V. (AGEM) |
| Web link | agem.de/curare |
| ISSN (print) | 0344-8622 |
Curare. Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie is a scientific journal in the field of medical anthropology that has been published since 1978 , published by the Working Group Ethnology and Medicine, which was founded as an association in 1970 (until 2018 under the name Working Group Ethnomedicine ). The journal offers an international and interdisciplinary forum for the scientific discussion of medical anthropological topics, which covers all aspects of health, disease, medicine and healing in the past and present in all parts of the world.
After an initial review by the editorial team, all scientific research articles are subjected to an external review in a double-blind process. All other contributions are reviewed internally by the editorial team. In addition to research articles, conference reports and book reviews are also published. The Forum section also offers space for essayistic contributions, interviews and ethnographic vignettes.
Curare publishes articles in English and as the only journal for medical anthropology also in German. It supports the publication of special issues through guest editors.
The magazine appears in the Berlin publishing house for science and education, before that in the Vieweg publishing house. The subtitle of the journal was until 2007 Journal for Ethnomedicine and Transcultural Psychiatry.
The journal's h-index is 18 (as of 2016).