Medical Anthropology Courses and Concepts Tested on the MCAT: A Content Analysis of 40 U.S. Course Syllabi [PDF]
The Association of American Medical Colleges recommends students seeking to enter medical school complete courses in the social sciences. Despite calls to teach social science—including anthropology—in pre-medical curriculum, little is known about what ...
Tyler J Stodola, Sean P Bruna
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Analysis of Thematic Structure of Researches in Medical Anthropology Field [PDF]
Introduction: New applications of studies to draw the structure of science including clustering concepts and identifying new fields of studies. This study was co-word analysis of intellectual structure of knowledge in the field of throbbing headaches ...
Fathemeh Makkizadeh +3 more
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Critical Medical Anthropology in Midwifery Research [PDF]
In this article, we discuss the use of critical medical anthropology (CMA) as a theoretical framework for research in the maternity care setting. With reference to the doctoral research of the first author, we argue for the relevance of using CMA for ...
Elizabeth C. Newnham +2 more
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Unveiling the Intersection: Anthropological Insights into Health Disparities and Well-Being [PDF]
This research paper delves into the multifaceted realm where anthropology intersects with health, culture, and society. It unravels the profound contributions of various sub-disciplines within anthropology to our understanding of health disparities ...
José Briceño Osío
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Unveiling the Cultural Significance of Illness and Healing: Perspectives from Psychological and Medical Anthropology [PDF]
Psychological and medical anthropology converge in illuminating the symbiotic relationship between psychological well-being and physical health. Within the domains of psychology and medicine, anthropologists undertake investigations into the influence ...
Sergievskaya Ekaterina
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Introduction: Diagnostics, Medical Testing, and Value in Medical Anthropology
Introduction to the Special Issue on Diagnostics, Medical testing, and ...
Alice Street, Ann H. Kelly
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Evidencing in medical anthropology
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Eileen Moyer, Vinh-Kim Nguyen
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Edgework in medical anthropology
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Eileen Moyer, Vinh-Kim Nguyen
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Anthropological approaches to medical humanitarianism
Despite broadly shared interest in the welfare of ‘precarious lives’, medical anthropology and medical humanitarianism are too often in tension. In this survey, we sketch a history of the two disciplines, then track three major patterns through which ...
Isabel Beshar, Darryl Stellmach
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Anthropology of disease. In the wake of the Arctic Circle epidemics: field materials of I.S. Gurvich [PDF]
The unique body of materials collected by the Soviet ethnographer and the North scholar I.S. Gurvich (1919–1992) in places of compact residence of the indigenous peoples of Yakutia (the Yukagir expedition of 1959) for the first time determined scientific
Romanova E.N. , Stepanova L.B.
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