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1 maj 2022 · The book's case by Simmons explored social tensions between doctors, nurses, and patients in a health center in Chile, and showed how differences between groups reflected social class, professional culture, and institutional organization.
This paper focuses on the cultural components of the social determinants of health models—helping the reader make sense of the complexity of culture within the larger social determinants of health enterprise—and demonstrates the process of theorizing culture from the perspective of medical anthropology.
23 mar 2022 · Gain an overview of the discipline and development of both cultural studies and social anthropology, including their theoretical and research approaches. Reflect upon the insights that cultural studies and social anthropology can give to our understanding of health, illness and healthcare.
Only by understanding the nature of social narrative can we see how practical meanings continue to be structured by the search for salvation. How to be saved—how to jump to the present from the past and into the future—is still of urgent social and existential concern.
9 paź 2003 · Exposing our everyday myths and narratives in a series of empirical studies that range from Watergate to the Holocaust, it shows how these unseen yet potent cultural structures translate into concrete actions and institutions.
A starting premise of health anthropology is that health-related issues, including disease and treatment, how and why one gets sick, and the nature of recovery, are far more than narrow biological phenomena.
26 lis 2020 · By triangulating among these data, anthropological studies have sharpened our understanding of how and why drug users begin and continue to use drugs, as well as how they experience their addiction, navigate relationships, and pursue recovery.
