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Morphometric cranial standards for sex estimation of a population in two ethnic groups in Southwest Iran

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, Ali Reza Eftekhari Moghadam, Jafar Rezaian   +2 more
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Theoretical Approaches and Key Concepts in Medical Anthropology [PDF]

, 2016
The theoretical views and ideas offered in the following pages – which are quite long in order to offer a through explanation of the vast and diverse medical and anthropological literature we have available – regard specific concepts and paradigms that ...
IORIO, SILVIA
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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
wiley   +1 more source

What Role Does Medical Anthropology Play in Medical Education? A Scoping Review

Societies
Background: 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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Critical medical anthropology as a roadmap

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2021
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Bayla Ostrach
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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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Une famille et des professionnels médicaux face au cancer. Incertitudes et contraintes au Cambodge

Anthropologie & Santé, 2021
This article describes the cancer experience of a child and her family in Cambodia. She is a four-year-old girl whose therapeutic wandering is characteristic of the weaknesses and flaws of the Cambodian health care system.
Meriem M’Zoughi
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A Systematic Review of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Epigenetic Age Acceleration in Later Adult Life Measured With Second and Third‐Generation Epigenetic Clocks

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examined the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and epigenetic age acceleration (EAA) in adulthood as measured by second and third generation epigenetic clocks by performing a systematic review of the literature. The electronic databases MEDLINE and EMBASE were searched on 17 July 2023.
Matthew Green, Laura Horsfall, Azam Saied   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“We Don't Have to Look Very Far to See Who’s Being Maimed and Injured”

Svetovi
Susan 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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Molecular Profiling of Genes Associated With Methylphenidate Pathway Therapy and Discovery of New Variants in Amazonian Amerindian Populations

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), methylphenidate is one of the most widely used drugs, in which patient response significantly impacts prognosis. This study aimed to characterize the molecular profile of 10 genes associated with methylphenidate therapy.
Aline Pasquini Santos, Tatiane Carinta de Souza, Kaio Evandro Cardoso Aguiar, Ana Caroline Alves da Costa, Natasha Monte, Juliana Carla Gomes Rodrigues, Giovanna Gilioli da Costa Nunes, Rita de Cássia Calderaro Coelho, Ândrea Ribeiro‐dos‐Santos, André Maurício Ribeiro dos Santos, Sandro José de Souza, Sidney Emanuel Batista dos Santos, Rommel Mario Rodriguez Burbano, Marianne Rodrigues Fernandes, Ney Pereira Carneiro dos Santos   +14 more
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