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Anthropology in the Clinic: The Problem of Cultural Competency and How to Fix It
PLoS Medicine, 2006 Cultural competency has become a fashionable term for clinicians and researchers. Yet no one can defi ne this term precisely enough to operationalize it in clinical training and best practices. It is clear that culture does matter in the clinic.
A. Kleinman, P. Benson
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Rural Landscapes: Society Environment History, 2015 This paper explores the value of cross-cutting ties and conflicting loyalties for the peaceful management of conflicts and the emergence of collective action across previously violently contested community boundaries in two communities in the Lake ...
Eric Mutisya Kioko, Michael Bollig
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Use and Misuse of Machine Learning in Anthropology [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Machine learning (ML), being now widely accessible to the research community at large, has fostered a proliferation of new and striking applications of these emergent mathematical techniques across a wide range of disciplines. In this paper, we will focus on a particular case study: the field of paleoanthropology, which seeks to understand the ...
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Anthropology and Open Access [PDF]
, 2014 While still largely ignored by many anthropologists, open access (OA) has been a confusing and volatile center around which a wide range of contentious debates and vexing leadership dilemmas orbit.
Anderson, Ryan B., Jackson, Jason B.
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Recent advancements in wearable healthcare have brought accessible continuous glucose monitoring systems (CGMs) for diabetes management. To address the limitations of CGMs, closed‐loop systems utilizing monitored glucose levels for insulin dosing are being developed.
Wei Huang +5 more
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Anthropology and Ethnicity: From Herder to Hermeneutics [PDF]
, 1998 For a long time, the central focus of anthropology has been on the study of the so-called traditional societies. However, with the transformation of those societies into ethnicized groups within state systems, anthropologists have had to rethink their ...
Eller, Jack
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how university‐based teacher education programs in diverse historical, sociocultural, and political settings in the U.S. and in Chile, served to foster immigrant empowerment and liberation. Using a Funds of Knowledge approach, the study analyzed the educational practices of migrant families and their integration into ...
Ana Christina da Silva Iddings +3 more
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Educational potential of teaching evolution as an interdisciplinary science
Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2020 Evolution education continues to struggle with a range of persistent challenges spanning aspects of conceptual understanding, acceptance, and perceived relevance of evolutionary theory by students in general education.
Susan Hanisch, Dustin Eirdosh
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INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY [PDF]
, 2013 Anthropology is the study of mankind (anthropos). Etymologically, anthropology comes from the word anthropos meaning man and logos meaning knowledge. Anthropology looks at humans as something complex in terms of physical, emotional, social, and cultural ...
Aspari Ismail, Reviewed by: +1 more
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An Anthropology of Biomedicine
, 2018 An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist
M. Lock, V. Nguyen
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