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Medical anthropologists examine how the health of individuals, larger social formations, and the environment are affected by interrelationships between humans and other species; cultural norms and social institutions; micro and macro politics; and forces of globalization as each of
This course offers an intensive introduction to medical anthropology through these shifts in problems and approaches, with additional foci on contemporary questions of addiction, disability, metabolism, and care, in and beyond the U.S.
Handbook of medical anthropology : contemporary theory and method I edited by Carolyn F. Sargent and Thomas M. Johnson.-Rev. ed. p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-313-29658-8 (hardcover: alk. paper) I. Medical anthropology. I. Sargent, Carolyn Fishel. II. Johnson, Thomas M. (Thomas Malcolm). GN296.M423 1996
Medical anthropology involves up-close, person-centered, and ethically engaged examination of the complex cultural dynamics that underpin and give rise not only to health and wellbeing, illness and death, but also the medical systems on which we rely for treatment and cure.
16 paź 2018 · Medical Anthropology is a subfield of anthropology that draws upon social, cultural, bio logical, and linguistic anthropology to better understand those factors which influence health and well...
4 sie 2022 · Medical anthropology : a biocultural approach. by. Wiley, Andrea S., 1962-. Publication date. 2009. Topics. Medical anthropology. Publisher. New York : Oxford University Press.
Physical or biological anthropologists usu-ally practice within biomedical research and study relations between bodily processes and sociocultural practices such as nutrition, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society, First Edition.
