The Medical Anthropology and Sociology Unit at the University of Amsterdam is located in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. The Unit is involved in teaching four master programmes; it runs special courses in its field, both at the University of Amsterdam and abroad; it is responsible for training and supervising PhD students; it carries out scientific and applied research, it organizes conferences and other academic meetings, and it publishes a journal and several book series. In carrying out the above tasks the Unit maintains links with a large number of other institutions in and outside The Netherlands.