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Epidemiology, social history, and the beginnings of medical anthropology in the highlands of New Guinea [PDF]
Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2018 Shirley Lindenbaum’s study in the early 1960s of the origins and transmission of kuru among the Fore people of the eastern highlands of New Guinea is one of the earliest examples of an explicitly medical anthropology.
Warwick Anderson
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A Companion to Medical Anthropology [PDF]
Anthropological Review, 2016 Merrill Singer and Pamela I. Erickson (eds.). 2015. A Companion to Medical Anthropology. Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Wiley Blackwell, United Kingdom, 541 pp. ISBN: 978-1-118-86321-3.
Żądzińska Elżbieta
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Critical Medical Anthropology – a voice for just and equitable healthcare [PDF]
Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 2015 The article presents a paradigm current in contemporary medical anthropology – Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA), which merges political-economic approaches with a culturally sensitive analysis of human behaviour grounded in anthropological methods. It
Anna Witeska-Młynarczyk
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Teaching medical anthropology in UK medical schools: cultivating autoethnographic practice among medical students [PDF]
, 2023 Behavioural and social sciences (BSS) are a core component of undergraduate medical education in the United Kingdom. Despite the formal recognition of BSS by the UK’s General Medical Council (GMC), anthropology remains largely at the periphery in the ...
Dikomitis, Lisa +5 more
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, 2021 Drawing upon the empirical scholarship and research expertise of contributors from all settled continents and from diverse life settings and economies, Viral Loads illustrates how the COVID-19 pandemic, and responses to it, lay bare and load onto people ...
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American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Dynamin 1 is a GTPase protein involved in synaptic vesicle fission, which facilitates the exocytosis of neurotransmitters necessary for normal signaling. Pathogenic variants in the DNM1 gene are associated with intractable epilepsy, often manifested as infantile spasms at onset, developmental delay, and a movement disorder, and are located in ...
Davide Mei +4 more
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Ut over ”illness” og ”disease”
Kulturella Perspektiv, 2015 In this article I introduce readers to the history of medical anthropology. Medical anthropology is a subfield within social anthropology that has the cultural dimensions of health and illness as its main research interest and focus.
Karine Aasgaard Jansen
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International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 2022 Hansjörg Dilger is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin with a specialisation in critical medical anthropology and the anthropology of religious diversity.
Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo +1 more
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BMC Medical Education, 2022 Background In faculty development, understanding each participant’s cultural context is important. However, there is scarce evidence on how to improve cultural understanding in faculty development.
Sayaka Oikawa +3 more
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Kekuasaan: Determinan Sosial dan Kebudayaan Penyakit Tuberkulosis Paru di Cinangka, Serang, Banten
Jurnal Antropologi: Isu-Isu Sosial Budaya, 2022 The backgrounds of this research are the reality of pulmonary tuberculosis cases in Indonesia which has never been resolved since the colonial era until now, and the ignorance of biomedical experts to the results of medical anthropology research on ...
M Farid
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