Anthropology Medical Systems

The anthropology of health systems: A history and review

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953621006468

We conceptualize the anthropology of health systems as a field; review the history of this body of knowledge; and outline emergent literatures on policymaking, HIV, hospitals, Community Health Workers, health markets, pharmaceuticals, and metrics. …

The anthropology of health systems: A history and review

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34400012/

Ethnographies of health systems are a theoretically rich and rapidly growing area within medical anthropology. Critical ethnographic work dating back to the 1950s has taken …

Medical anthropology - Wikipedia

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Medical Anthropology | Department of Anthropology

https://anthropology.stanford.edu/research/medical-anthropology

Medical anthropology is the study of how health and illness are shaped, experienced, and understood in the context of cultural, historical, and political forces. It is one of the most …

Medical Anthropology < University of California, Berkeley

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The Joint UCB/UCSF PhD in Medical Anthropology is one of the pioneering programs in the discipline both nationally and globally. The program provides disciplinary leadership …

Medical Anthropology: Department of Anthropology

https://anthropology.northwestern.edu/undergraduate/career-paths/medical.html

Medical Anthropology also includes applied research geared toward solving specific problems related to the delivery of health care, including improving health care policies …

What Kind of Model for the Anthropology of Medical …

https://www.jstor.org/stable/677027

Foster's model, namely, that medical systems are more or less homogeneous, unchanging, and single. Foster does not define "medical system," but rather treats this concept as if …

An Introduction to Medical Anthropology

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Medical anthropology is a field of anthropology focused on the relationship between health, illness, and culture. Beliefs and practices about health …

What is Medical Anthropology? – Society for Medical …

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Medical Anthropology is a subfield of anthropology that draws upon social, cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology to better understand those factors which influence …

Anthropology and Biomedicine - Medical Anthropology

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Anthropology and Biomedicine. Early on, Biomedicine was the reality in terms of which other medical systems, professional or popular, were implicitly compared …