<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-be1a3189-7fff-0acc-180f-94d1e78305f2"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear colleagues,  </span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I am writing to let you know about a volume I am involved in </span><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/language-and-health-in-action-9780198933922?lang=en&cc=cr" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Language and Health in Action</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">that has just come out with Oxford University Press.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> The book includes all new scholarship at the intersection of linguistic and medical anthropology and is designed for undergraduate teaching in anthropology and beyond. I invite you to consider adopting it for teaching if it is a good fit for your courses. </span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We conceptualized the book</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to introduce anthropology and pre-health students to the ways that language and health practices shape each other. Over three years, we have worked closely with contributing chapter authors and solicited feedback and input from undergraduates at UMass Amherst and Colgate University, where two of us co-editors taught the manuscript and received enthusiastic positive reviews from students. </span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The book includes a foreword written by Charles Briggs that lays out the history of work at the linguistic-medical anthropology intersection, an afterword by Mara Buchbinder that discusses the value of centering language and narrative approaches in medical school curriculum, a foundational “Key Concepts” chapter, and 15 original research chapters that are organized across five thematic sections, each with a short section introduction: Clinical Interaction, Language Access, Community and Communicability, Health and Environment, and Healing Practices. </span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chapters are written in accessible prose and include clearly defined terms and immersive examples from qualitative and ethnographic research. To support instructors and students, each chapter concludes with a set of reflection and discussion questions. And we have compiled a list of complementary multimedia resources that is available on a </span><a href="https://global.oup.com/booksites/content/9780198933922/#13" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;tex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