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Epidemiology, social history, and the beginnings of medical anthropology in the highlands of New Guinea

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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Cultivating cultural awareness among medical educators by integrating cultural anthropology in faculty development: an action research study

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, Junko Iida, Yasunobu Ito, Hiroshi Nishigori   +3 more
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Ethics as Embodied Practice: Reflexivity, Dialogue and Collaboration – in Conversation with Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger

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, Hansjörg Dilger   +1 more
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Surgery-for-life:Aging, sexual fitness and self-management in Brazil [PDF]

, 2014
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork on plastic surgery to explore tensions in aging norms and ideals for women in Brazil.  I situate my analysis in relation to debates about a “de-chronologized life course.”  Some scholars argue that the life ...
Edmonds, Alexander
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A Companion to Medical Anthropology

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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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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Diseases of the Indigenous Peoples of Yakutia in Photo Projects of the Late XIX ‒ First Third of the XX Centuries [PDF]

Гуманитарный вектор, 2021
Disease theme of indigenous population of the Northern national outskirts of Russia, as well as the study of special knowledge in the field of traditional medicine and healing practices, for a long time belonged to the taboo part of knowledge. However,
Lena B. Stepanova
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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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A reflection on medical anthropology and epidemiology

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2020
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Craig R. Janes
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The case of Heinrich Wilhelm Poll (1877-1939): A German-Jewish geneticist, eugenicist, twin researcher, and victim of the Nazis [PDF]

, 2006
This paper uses a reconstruction of the life and career of Heinrich Poll as a window into developments and professional relationships in the biological sciences in Germany in the period from the beginning of the twentieth century to the Nazi seizure of ...
Braund, James, Sutton, Douglas G.
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