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Nonsecular Medical Anthropology
Medical Anthropology, 2015A nonsecular medical anthropology insists on the ways medicine and science have constituted 'the secular' itself through the 'secular self'-how medical knowing has been used to craft the secular political subject. As James Boon noted, too often in social theory, "religion gets safely tucked away-restricted theoretically to 'meaning' rather than power" (
Ian, Whitmarsh, Elizabeth F S, Roberts
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The Medical Anthropology of Sensations
Transcultural Psychiatry, 2008In psychological theory, sensations are the first experiential responses to stimuli that ultimately lead to (or become incorporated into) more elaborate perceptions of objects and events. What kind of experience is a sensation? It is difficult to get ‘behind’ sensations because in some ways the phenomenal world is built up out of basic sensations ...
Devon E, Hinton +2 more
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Medical Anthropology, 2011
In the past two decades, the Internet has played an important role in social, cultural, economic, and political life, influencing health and illness in many ways.
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In the past two decades, the Internet has played an important role in social, cultural, economic, and political life, influencing health and illness in many ways.
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Medical Anthropology at the Intersections
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2007It may be hard to believe, but the discipline of medical anthropology is now nearly 50 years old. In 1959, one of the first references to "medical anthropology" was made in a article by a physician-anthropologist named James Roney, entitled "Medical Anthropology: A Synthetic Discipline" (Roney 1959).
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Teaching Anthropology In the Medical Curriculum
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 2000Practicing medicine well requires recognizing the breadth of human experience and attending to the psychological and sociocultural dimensions of patients as well as their physical needs. Central to the concerns of anthropology are the shared beliefs and values expressed in social practices and traditions that give meaning to everyday life.
J A, Carrese, P A, Marshall
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2023
This chapter explores the insights that medical anthropology contributes to studies of health, medicine, diseases, and the body. It describes how the traditional anthropological methods of participant observation, extended field work, and the study of kinship relations can reveal previously obscured patterns of disease transition.
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This chapter explores the insights that medical anthropology contributes to studies of health, medicine, diseases, and the body. It describes how the traditional anthropological methods of participant observation, extended field work, and the study of kinship relations can reveal previously obscured patterns of disease transition.
Chenhall, Richard +2 more
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On the Medicalization of Medical Anthropology
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 1999The following address was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA), November 21,1997, Washington, DC, by outgoing SMA president Carole Browner. It has been edited slightly for publication.
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Medical Anthropology as Cultural Anthropology
American Anthropologist, 1995Book reviewed in this article: Medicine, Rationality, and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective. Byron J. Good. Knowledge, Power, and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life. Shirley Lindenbaum and Margaret Lock, eds.
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2019
Materials on theoretical human morphology are presented. The basic principles of modern morphology, features of growth and development of an organism, structure of a body and Constitution of the person are considered; extensive data on physical development, the General sizes and proportions of a body are resulted.
Tat'yana Galkina, Oleg Kalmin
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Materials on theoretical human morphology are presented. The basic principles of modern morphology, features of growth and development of an organism, structure of a body and Constitution of the person are considered; extensive data on physical development, the General sizes and proportions of a body are resulted.
Tat'yana Galkina, Oleg Kalmin
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SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Anthropology News, 1989Jeannine Coreil, Roberta Baer
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