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Bodies of knowledge: medical anthropology and interdisciplinarity [PDF]
Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, 2015 Medical anthropology at Oxford was intended to be a short-term departure from my first degree in chemical engineering, motivated by my desire to understand health and illness in the context of wider society rather than within the confines of the lab ...
Caroline M. Potter
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A reflection on medical anthropology and epidemiology
Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2020 n ...
Craig R. Janes
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Translational Research in Anatomy, 2023 Background: This study aimed to evaluate the cephalometric landmarks, cranial measurements, and cephalic index based on geographical and ethnic characteristics to make a database for the southwest Iranian population.
Forouzan Absalan +2 more
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, 2019 Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and events which encompass and exercise
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Palaeoproteomic Deconvolution of Physical and Genetic Collagen Mixtures
Advanced Science, EarlyView.ClassiCOL_v2 uses a novel “peptide patching” framework that treats any collagen sample as a patchwork of peptide sequences derived from phylogenetically related species. This allows the algorithm to simultaneously resolve two previously intractable problems: multi‐species samples and/or database deficiencies.
Ian Engels +12 more
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What Role Does Medical Anthropology Play in Medical Education? A Scoping Review
SocietiesBackground: The medical humanities (MH) are important in medical education, and one of the most relevant is medical anthropology. This discipline constitutes the bridge between the biomedical world and the human sciences because it can detect social ...
Davide Costa, Raffaele Serra
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Transformations et perspectives de l’anthropologie de la santé : un regard épistémologique
Anthropologie & Santé, 2010 Commenting on the new objects and the perspectives opened to the anthropology of health, the author analyses the historical context of the terminology shift.
Anne Marie Moulin
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American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT UBE3A is a dosage‐sensitive HECT E3 ubiquitin ligase whose neuronal expression is shaped by genomic imprinting at the 15q11.2‐q13 locus. Opposite directions of UBE3A dosage imbalance contribute to distinct neurodevelopmental phenotypes: loss of maternal UBE3A underlies Angelman syndrome, whereas maternally derived 15q11.2‐q13 copy‐number gains,
Ruslan Kurmashev
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“We Don't Have to Look Very Far to See Who’s Being Maimed and Injured”
SvetoviSusan Levine’s work is positioned at the intersection of medical, political, and visual anthropology. She is the convenor of the Health Humanities and the Arts interdisciplinary master’s program at the University of Cape Town.
Nežka Struc, Susan Levine
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Critical medical anthropology as a roadmap
Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2021 N ...
Bayla Ostrach
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