Medical Anthropology
Medical anthropology studies "human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation". It views humans from multidimensional and ecological perspectives. It is one of the most highly developed areas of anthropology and applied anthropology, and is a subfield of social and cultural anthropology that examines the ways in which culture and society are organized around or influenced by issues of health, health care and related issues. The term "medical anthropology" has been used since 1963 as a label for empirical research and theoretical production by anthropologists into the social processes and cultural representations of health, illness and the nursing/care …
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National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation · 11 March 2024 English
An analysis of the impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on adherence of secondary prevention of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease at Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in the Northern Territory …
People’s understanding of rheumatic fever. Medical anthropology, 38(1), pp.1-14. Matthews, V., Bailie …
HDRO: United Nations Human Development Report Office · 11 March 2024 English
The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Human Development Report Office …
Chen, J., Willer, R., and Zaki, J. 2020. Medical Anthropology 41(1): 19–33. “Conservative and Liberal …
ASC: Alzheimer Society of Canada · 9 January 2024 English
/ 6 / ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF CANADA / THE LANDMARK STUDY: PEOPLE Data from the Landmark Study The Many Faces of Dementia in Canada is the second in a series …
Treating homelessness in safety-net hospitals. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 36(1), 44–63. https://doi.org/10 …
American Academy of Arts and Sciences · 14 November 2023 English
There is a good deal of quantitative and qualitative data about the treatment out-comes of particular kinds of therapy, and much reportage about their practices, to suggest they are.10 And …
at Harvard University, and Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine and …
American Academy of Arts and Sciences · 14 November 2023 English
And the systems of care are just as problem-plagued, costly, and egregiously inadequate as the rest of health care.1 In high-, middle-, and low-income countries alike, half of the world’s …
at Harvard University, and Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine and …
American Academy of Arts and Sciences · 14 November 2023 English
the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University, and Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine and Professor of Psy- chiatry at Harvard Medical School …
at Harvard University, and Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine and …
American Academy of Arts and Sciences · 14 November 2023 English
The formal boundaries of the Fort Belknap Indian reservation–comprising less than seven hundred thousand acres–were established in 1888, though a small strip of land in the Little Rocky Mountains was …
Abstinence in a Northern Plains Tribe,” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 20 (2) (2008): 160–181, https://doi …
American Academy of Arts and Sciences · 14 November 2023 English
Bendell, Editor in Chief Peter Walton, Associate Editor Key Bird, Assistant Editor The images on the inside covers are meant to suggest the cultural, historical, and scientific con- tributions to …
at Harvard University, and Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine and … at Harvard University, and Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine and … Abstinence in a Northern Plains Tribe,” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 20 (2) (2008): 160–181, https://doi … at Harvard University, and Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine and …
INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 10 November 2023
L.M. The ethnoecology of dengue fever. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 1997, 11, 202-223. WILLIAMS-BLANGERO …
INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 25 October 2023
include ethno- medicine, ethnobotany, and medical anthropology. We propose an approach which can be used …
