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Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology: A Holistic Approach to Healthcare
Introduction:
Are you intrigued by the intricate interplay between culture, society, and health? Do you believe healthcare is more than just treating symptoms; it's understanding the patient's entire world? Then understanding and applying medical anthropology is crucial for you. This comprehensive guide delves into the core principles of medical anthropology, exploring its applications in various healthcare settings and showcasing how it can revolutionize our approach to patient care. We'll explore its theoretical foundations, practical applications, and future implications, equipping you with the knowledge to integrate this perspective into your own work or studies.
What is Medical Anthropology?
Medical anthropology is an interdisciplinary field that examines the relationship between health, illness, and culture. It moves beyond a purely biological understanding of disease, acknowledging that experiences of health and illness are deeply shaped by social, cultural, economic, and political factors. Instead of focusing solely on the individual body, medical anthropology considers the wider social contexts influencing health outcomes. This includes examining:
Disease Etiology: How different cultures explain the causes of illness (e.g., supernatural, spiritual, biomedical).
Healing Practices: The diverse methods used to treat and prevent illness, ranging from traditional medicine to modern biomedicine.
Health Systems: The organization and function of healthcare systems across different societies.
Health Inequalities: The social and cultural factors contributing to disparities in health outcomes.
The Biocultural Approach: Recognizing the inseparable link between biology and culture in shaping health experiences.
Core Concepts in Medical Anthropology
Understanding and applying medical anthropology requires grasping several key concepts:
#### 1. The Illness-Disease Distinction:
Arthur Kleinman's work highlighted the crucial difference between "illness" and "disease." Disease refers to the biological and physiological aspects of a condition, diagnosable by biomedical science. Illness, however, encompasses the patient's lived experience of the condition, including their suffering, perceptions, and beliefs about its causes and consequences. This distinction emphasizes the importance of understanding the patient's perspective and incorporating their cultural context into treatment.
#### 2. Cultural Models of Illness:
Every culture develops unique ways of understanding and explaining illness. These cultural models dictate how people perceive symptoms, seek help, and respond to treatment. Understanding these models is essential for effective communication and culturally sensitive care.
#### 3. Medical Pluralism:
In many societies, people utilize a range of healthcare systems concurrently – integrating traditional medicine, complementary therapies, and biomedicine. Medical anthropology explores the reasons behind this pluralism and examines how different systems interact and influence each other.
Applying Medical Anthropology in Practice
The principles of medical anthropology are not merely theoretical; they have significant practical applications across diverse healthcare settings:
Improving Patient-Provider Communication: Understanding a patient's cultural background and beliefs allows healthcare providers to tailor their communication style and approach to build trust and enhance the effectiveness of treatment.
Developing Culturally Appropriate Interventions: Medical anthropology informs the design of healthcare programs and interventions that are sensitive to the specific cultural context and needs of the target population.
Addressing Health Disparities: By identifying social and cultural factors contributing to health inequalities, medical anthropology helps develop strategies to reduce disparities and promote health equity.
Global Health Initiatives: Understanding the cultural dimensions of health is crucial for successful global health interventions, particularly in diverse and marginalized communities.
Bioethics and Research: Medical anthropologists play a vital role in ensuring ethical conduct in biomedical research by addressing issues of informed consent, cultural sensitivity, and community engagement.
The Future of Medical Anthropology
Medical anthropology continues to evolve, adapting to global challenges such as climate change, emerging infectious diseases, and increasing health inequalities. The field is increasingly incorporating new methodologies, including digital ethnography and data science, to address complex issues in health and well-being. Furthermore, the intersection of medical anthropology with other disciplines, such as public health and global health, promises to yield valuable insights and interventions in the years to come.
Conclusion:
Understanding and applying medical anthropology offers a crucial perspective for anyone involved in healthcare or related fields. By considering the broader social, cultural, and economic factors that shape health experiences, we can move towards a more holistic, patient-centered, and equitable approach to healthcare. This holistic approach is not just about treating the disease; it's about understanding and addressing the illness, within the context of the patient's unique cultural world.
FAQs:
1. How is medical anthropology different from other social sciences studying health? While sociology, psychology, and other social sciences also examine health, medical anthropology distinguishes itself by its explicit focus on the cross-cultural comparison of health systems, beliefs, and practices.
2. Can medical anthropology be applied in Western healthcare settings? Absolutely. Even within seemingly homogenous societies, cultural diversity exists, necessitating culturally sensitive care. Medical anthropology helps bridge this gap.
3. What are the career paths for someone with a background in medical anthropology? Careers include research, teaching, public health, global health initiatives, healthcare policy, and working directly with patients in diverse settings.
4. How can I learn more about medical anthropology? Start by exploring introductory textbooks, taking relevant university courses, attending conferences, and engaging with research articles and journals in the field.
5. Is medical anthropology relevant in the age of advanced biomedicine? More than ever. Advanced biomedicine requires thoughtful integration into existing healthcare systems and cultures; medical anthropology provides the framework to achieve this responsibly and effectively.
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| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology Peter J. Brown, 1998 This collection of readings exposes students to the breadth of theoretical viewpoints and issues in the field of medical anthropology. The text provides specific examples and case studies of research as it is applied in a range of health settings - from clinical encounters to preventive services to international health. |
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| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Exploring Medical Anthropology Donald Joralemon, 2017-03-16 Now in its fourth edition, Exploring Medical Anthropology provides a concise and engaging introduction to medical anthropology. It presents competing theoretical perspectives in a balanced fashion, highlighting points of conflict and convergence. Concrete examples and the author’s personal research experiences are utilized to explain some of the discipline’s most important insights, such as that biology and culture matter equally in the human experience of disease and that medical anthropology can help to alleviate human suffering. The text has been thoroughly updated for the fourth edition, including fresh case studies and a new chapter on drugs. It contains a range of pedagogical features to support teaching and learning, including images, text boxes, a glossary, and suggested further reading. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Culture and Health Michael Winkelman, 2005 |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Introducing Medical Anthropology Merrill Singer, Hans A. Baer, 2011-11-04 This revised textbook provides students with a first exposure to the growing field of medical anthropology. The narrative is guided by unifying themes. First, medical anthropology is actively engaged in helping to address pressing health problems around the globe through research, intervention, and policy-related initiatives. Second, illness and disease cannot be fully understood or effectively addressed by treating them solely as biological in nature; rather, health problems involve complex biosocial processes and resolving them requires attention to range of factors including systems of belief, structures of social relationship, and environmental conditions. Third, through an examination of health inequalities on the one hand and environmental degradation and environment-related illness on the other, the book underlines the need for going beyond cultural or even ecological models of health toward a comprehensive medical anthropology. The authors show that a medical anthropology that integrates biological, cultural, and social factors to truly understand the origin of ill health will contribute to more effective and equitable health care systems. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Critical Medical Anthropology Jennie Gamlin, Sahra Gibbon, Paola M. Sesia, Lina Berrio , 2020-03-12 Critical Medical Anthropology presents inspiring work from scholars doing and engaging with ethnographic research in or from Latin America, addressing themes that are central to contemporary Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA). This includes issues of inequality, embodiment of history, indigeneity, non-communicable diseases, gendered violence, migration, substance abuse, reproductive politics and judicialisation, as these relate to health. The collection of ethnographically informed research, including original theoretical contributions, reconsiders the broader relevance of CMA perspectives for addressing current global healthcare challenges from and of Latin America. It includes work spanning four countries in Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala and Peru) as well as the trans-migratory contexts they connect and are defined by. By drawing on diverse social practices, it addresses challenges of central relevance to medical anthropology and global health, including reproduction and maternal health, sex work, rare and chronic diseases, the pharmaceutical industry and questions of agency, political economy, identity, ethnicity, and human rights. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology Lenore Manderson, Elizabeth Cartwright, Anita Hardon, 2016-05-12 The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology. In this exciting departure from conventional handbooks, compendia and encyclopedias, the three editors have written the core chapters of the volume, and in so doing, invite the reader to reflect on the ethnographic richness and theoretical contributions of research on the clinic and the field, bioscience and medical research, infectious and non-communicable diseases, biomedicine, complementary and alternative modalities, structural violence and vulnerability, gender and ageing, reproduction and sexuality. As a way of illustrating the themes, a rich variety of case studies are included, presented by over 60 authors from around the world, reflecting the diverse cultural contexts in which people experience health, illness, and healing. Each chapter and its case studies are introduced by a photograph, reflecting medical and visual anthropological responses to inequality and vulnerability. An indispensible reference in this fastest growing area of anthropological study, The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology is a unique and innovative contribution to the field. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Medical Anthropology In Ecological Perspective Ann McElroy, Patricia K Townsend, 1996-10-17 The third edition of this classic text in medical anthropology has been revised to reflect new developments in theory and research. In theory, it addresses new thinking about political ecology and critiques older theoretical approaches. AIDS is a prominent topic in this new edition, as are other timely issues such as disability, medical pluralism, and health care seeking behavior. The authors have also expanded the number of health profiles to include migrant worker health, famine in the Horn of Africa, and paleopathology in the southwestern United States. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Medical Materialities Aaron Parkhurst, Timothy Carroll, 2019-01-14 Medical Materialities investigates possible points of cross-fertilisation between medical anthropology and material culture studies, and considers the successes and limitations of both sub-disciplines as they attempt to understand places, practices, methods, and cultures of healing. The editors present and expand upon a definition of ‘medical materiality’, namely the social impact of the agency of often mundane, at times non-clinical, materials within contexts of health and illness, as caused by the properties and affordances of this material. The chapters address material culture in various clinical and biomedical contexts and in discussions that link the body and healing. The diverse ethnographic case studies provide valuable insight into the way cultures of medicine are understood and practised. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Medical Anthropology at the Intersections Marcia C. Inhorn, Emily A. Wentzell, 2012-07-19 This work offers productive insight into the field of medical anthropology and its future, as viewed by some of the world's leading medical anthropologists. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: On Knowing and Not Knowing in the Anthropology of Medicine Roland Littlewood, 2016-07 Social scientific studies of medicine typically assume that systems of medical knowledge are uniform and consistent. But while anthropologists have long rejected the notion that cultures are discrete, bounded, and rule-drive entities, medical anthropology has been slower to develop alternative approaches to understanding cultures of health. This provocative volume considers the theoretical, methodological, and ethnographic implications of the fact that medical knowledge is frequently dynamic, incoherent, and contradictory, and that and our understanding of it is necessarily incomplete and partial. In diverse settings from indigenous cultures to Western medical industries, contributors consider such issues as how to define the boundaries of “medical” knowledge versus other kinds of knowledge; how to understand overlapping and shifting medical discourses; the medical profession’s need for anthropologists to produce “explanatory models”; the limits of the Western scientific method and the potential for methodological pluralism; constraints on fieldwork including violence and structural factors limiting access; and the subjectivity and interests of the researcher. On Knowing and Not Knowing in the Anthropology of Medicine will stimulate innovative thinking and productive debate for practitioners, researchers, and students in the social science of health and medicine. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Anthropology in Public Health Robert A. Hahn, Kate W. Harris, 1999 Cultural and social boundaries often separate those who participate in public health activities, and it is a major challenge to translate public health knowledge and technical capacity into public health action across these boundaries. This book provides an overview of anthropology and illustrates in 15 case studies how anthropological concepts and methods can help us understand and resolve diverse public health problems around the world. For example, one chapter shows how differences in concepts and terminology among patients, clinicians, and epidemiologists in a southwestern U.S. county hinder the control of epidemics. Another chapter examines reasons that Mexican farmers don't use protective equipment when spraying pesticides and suggests ways to increase use. Another examines the culture of international health agencies, demonstrates institutional values and practices that impede effective public health practice, and suggests issues that must be addressed to enhance institutional organization and process.; Each chapter characterizes a public health problem, describes methods used to analyse it, reviews results, and discusses implications; several chapters also describe and evaluate programs designed to address the problem on the basis of anthropological knowledge. The book provides practical models and indicates anthropological tools to translate public health knowledge and technical capacity into public health action. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, 2003-12-31 Medical practitioners and the ordinary citizen are becoming more aware that we need to understand cultural variation in medical belief and practice. The more we know how health and disease are managed in different cultures, the more we can recognize what is culture bound in our own medical belief and practice. The Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology is unique because it is the first reference work to describe the cultural practices relevant to health in the world's cultures and to provide an overview of important topics in medical anthropology. No other single reference work comes close to marching the depth and breadth of information on the varying cultural background of health and illness around the world. More than 100 experts - anthropologists and other social scientists - have contributed their firsthand experience of medical cultures from around the world. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: A Reader in Medical Anthropology Byron J. Good, Michael M. J. Fischer, Sarah S. Willen, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, 2010-03-22 A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities brings together articles from the key theoretical approaches in the field of medical anthropology as well as related science and technology studies. The editors’ comprehensive introductions evaluate the historical lineages of these approaches and their value in addressing critical problems associated with contemporary forms of illness experience and health care. Presents a key selection of both classic and new agenda-setting articles in medical anthropology Provides analytic and historical contextual introductions by leading figures in medical anthropology, medical sociology, and science and technology studies Critically reviews the contribution of medical anthropology to a new global health movement that is reshaping international health agendas |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Medical Anthropology Pool, Robert, Geissler, Wenzel, 2005-09-01 This book provides an introduction to the basic concepts, approaches and theories used, and shows how these contribute to understanding complex health related behaviour. Public health policies and interventions are more likely to be effective if the beliefs and behaviour of people are understood and taken into account. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: New Horizons in Medical Anthropology Margaret Lock, Mark Nichter, 2003-09-02 These cutting edge essays and case studies on issues like AIDS, medical technologies and overpopulation, are collected here in honour of Charles Leslie, the influential anthropologist. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Medicine, Rationality and Experience Byron J. Good, 1994 Biomedicine is often thought to provide a scientific account of the human body and of illness. In this view, non-Western and folk medical systems are regarded as systems of 'belief' and subtly discounted. This is an impoverished perspective for understanding illness and healing across cultures, one that neglects many facets of Western medical practice and obscures its kinship with healing in other traditions. Drawing on his research in several American and Middle Eastern medical settings, in this 1993 book Professor Good develops a critical, anthropological account of medical knowledge and practice. He shows how physicians and healers enter and inhabit distinctive worlds of meaning and experience. He explores how stories or illness narratives are joined with bodily experience in shaping and responding to human suffering and argues that moral and aesthetic considerations are present in routine medical practice as in other forms of healing. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Medical Anthropology Thomas Malcolm Johnson, Carolyn F. Sargent, 1990 |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Biomedicine Examined M. Lock, D. Gordon, 2012-12-06 The culture of contemporary medicine is the object of investigation in this book; the meanings and values implicit in biomedical knowledge and practice and the social processes through which they are produced are examined through the use of specific case studies. The essays provide examples of how various facets of 20th century medicine, including edu cation, research, the creation of medical knowledge, the development and application of technology, and day to day medical practice, are per vaded by a value system characteristic of an industrial-capitalistic view of the world in which the idea that science represents an objective and value free body of knowledge is dominant. The authors of the essays are sociologists and anthropologists (in almost equal numbers); also included are papers by a social historian and by three physicians all of whom have steeped themselves in the social sci ences and humanities. This co-operative endeavor, which has necessi tated the breaking down of disciplinary barriers to some extent, is per haps indicative of a larger movement in the social sciences, one in which there is a searching for a middle ground between grand theory and attempts at universal explanations on the one hand, and the context-spe cific empiricism and relativistic accounts characteristic of many historical and anthropological analyses on the other. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Critical Medical Anthropology Merrill Singer, Hans Baer, 2018-10-26 The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction and overview to the critical perspective as it has evolved in medical anthropology over the last ten years. Standing as an opposition approach to conventional medical anthropology, critical medical anthropology has emphasized the importance of political and economy forces, including the exercise of power, in shaping health, disease, illness experience, and health care. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Visual Interventions Sarah Pink, 2007-12-01 Visual anthropology has proved to offer fruitful methods of research and representation to applied projects of social intervention. Through a series of case studies based on applied visual anthropological work in a range of contexts (health and medicine, tourism and heritage, social development, conflict and disaster relief, community filmmaking and empowerment, and industry) this volume examines both the range contexts in which applied visual anthropology is engaged, and the methodological and theoretical issues it raises. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Public Anthropology in a Borderless World Sam Beck, Carl A. Maida, 2015-07-01 Anthropologists have acted as experts and educators on the nature and ways of life of people worldwide, working to understand the human condition in broad comparative perspective. As a discipline, anthropology has often advocated — and even defended — the cultural integrity, authenticity, and autonomy of societies across the globe. Public anthropology today carries out the discipline’s original purpose, grounding theories in lived experience and placing empirical knowledge in deeper historical and comparative frameworks. This is a vitally important kind of anthropology that has the goal of improving the modern human condition by actively engaging with people to make changes through research, education, and political action. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Chronic Conditions, Fluid States Lenore Manderson, Carolyn Smith-Morris, 2010 A major collection of essays from leaders in the field of medical anthropology, Chronic Conditions, Fluid States pays much-needed attention to one of the greatest challenges currently faced by both the wealthiest and poorest of nations. For anyone wishing to think critically about chronic illness in cross-cultural perspective, the social forces shaping this issue, and its impact on the lived experiences of people worldwide, there is no better place to start than this pioneering volume.---Richard Parker, Columbia University, and editor-in-chief, Global Public Health -- |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Applied Health Research Manual Anita Hardon, P. Boonmongkon, P. Streefland, M. L. Tan, 2005-03 This volume focuses on a number of important problem areas and issues, such as vaccination, reproductive health and AIDS, equity and community health financing, self-care and the use and distribution of pharmaceuticals, that confront health professionals and health planners. Public health staff at different levels are involved in providing health education and primary health care and are confronted with difficulties related to the socio-cultural context in which they work as they implement health programs. Anita Hardon is professor of anthropology of care and health, University of Amsterdam and dean of the Amsterdam School of Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam. Pimpawun Boonmongkon is assistant professor of Medical Anthropology at Mahidol University in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand. Pieter Streefland is senior research fellow at the Royal Tropical Institute, full professor of applied development sociology, and professor of master medical anthropology and sociology, University of Amsterdam. Michael Lim Tan is medical anthropologist and lecturer, University of the Philippines, and director of Health Action Information Network. Thavitong Hongvivatana is professor of medical social science and director of the Center for Health Policy Studies, Mahidol University in Nakhon Pathom. Sjaak van der Geest is professor of medical anthropology, University of Amsterdam. Anneloes van Staa is medical doctor and medical anthropologist, and lecturer, Institute of Health Policy and Management at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Corlien Varkevisser is a medical sociologist-anthropologist professor emeritus in Health System Research, University of Amsterdam. Cecilia Acuin, M.D., F.P.A.F.P, Department of Family Medicine of the De La Salle University in Manila. Mushtaque Chowdhury is visiting professor, Columbia University and deputy executive director of the research and evaluation division of BRAC in Bangladesh. Abbas Bhuiya is head of the Social and Behavioural Sciences Programme, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh. Luechai Sringeryuang is associate professor of medical anthropology, Mahidol University in Nakhon Pathom. Els van Dongen is associate professor in medical anthropology, University of Amsterdam. Trudie Gerrits is a medical anthropologist and research fellow, Amsterdam School of Social Science Research. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Plants, Health and Healing Elisabeth Hsu, Stephen Harris, 2012 Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South America. Even though medicinal plants have always attracted considerable attention, there is surprisingly little research on the interface of ethnobotany and medical anthropology. This volume, which brings together (ethno-)botanists, medical anthropologists and a clinician, makes an important contribution towards filling this gap. It emphasises that plant knowledge arises situationally as an intrinsic part of social relationships, that herbs need to be enticed if not seduced by the healers who work with them, that herbal remedies are cultural artefacts, and that bioprospecting and medicinal plant discovery can be viewed as the epitome of a long history of borrowing, stealing and exchanging plants. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Lissa Hamdy, Sherine, Nye, Coleman, 2017-11-15 As Anna and Layla reckon with illness, risk, and loss in different ways, they learn the power of friendship and the importance of hope. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: The Anthropology of Infectious Disease Peter J. Brown, Marcia Claire Inhorn, 1997 Anthropological contributions to the study of infectious disease and to the study of actual infectious disease eradication programmes have rarely been collected in one volume. In the era of AIDS and the global resurgance of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, there is widespread interest and concern about the cultural, ecological and political factors that are directly related to the increased prevalence of infectious disease. In this book, the authors have assembled the growing scholarship in one volume. Chapters explore the coevolution of genes and cultural traits; the cultural construction of 'disease' and how these models influence health-seeking behaviour; cultural adaptive strategies to infectious disease problems; the ways in which ethnography sheds light on epidemiological patterns of infectious disease; the practical and ethical dilemmas that anthropologists face by participating in infectious disease programmes; and the political ecology of infectious disease. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Medical Anthropology Andrea S. Wiley, John Scott Allen, 2013 An ideal core text for introductory courses, Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach, Second Edition, offers an accessible and contemporary overview of this rapidly expanding field. For each health issue examined in the text, the authors first present basic biological information on specific conditions and then expand their analysis to include evolutionary, historical, and cross-cultural perspectives on how these issues are understood. Medical Anthropology considers how a biocultural approach can be applied to more effective prevention and treatment efforts and underscores medical anthropology's potential to improve health around the world. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology Sarah Boslaugh, 2008 Presents information from the field of epidemiology in a less technical, more accessible format. Covers major topics in epidemiology, from risk ratios to case-control studies to mediating and moderating variables, and more. Relevant topics from related fields such as biostatistics and health economics are also included. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Chasing Polio in Pakistan Svea Closser, 2010-08-16 From remote villages and nomadic encampments to World Health Organization headquarters, a vivid ethnography of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Anatomy and Physiology J. Gordon Betts, Peter DeSaix, Jody E. Johnson, Oksana Korol, Dean H. Kruse, Brandon Poe, James A. Wise, Mark Womble, Kelly A. Young, 2013-04-25 |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Introducing Cultural Anthropology Brian M. Howell, Jenell Paris, 2019-06-18 What is the role of culture in human experience? This concise yet solid introduction to cultural anthropology helps readers explore and understand this crucial issue from a Christian perspective. Now revised and updated throughout, this new edition of a successful textbook covers standard cultural anthropology topics with special attention given to cultural relativism, evolution, and missions. It also includes a new chapter on medical anthropology. Plentiful figures, photos, and sidebars are sprinkled throughout the text, and updated ancillary support materials and teaching aids are available through Baker Academic's Textbook eSources. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Global Mental Health Brandon A Kohrt, Emily Mendenhall, 2016-07-01 While there is increasing political interest in research and policy-making for global mental health, there remain major gaps in the education of students in health fields for understanding the complexities of diverse mental health conditions. Drawing on the experience of many well-known experts in this area, this book uses engaging narratives to illustrate that mental illnesses are not only problems experienced by individuals but must also be understood and treated at the social and cultural levels. The book -includes discussion of traditional versus biomedical beliefs about mental illness, the role of culture in mental illness, intersections between religion and mental health, intersections of mind and body, and access to health care; -is ideal for courses on global mental health in psychology, public health, and anthropology departments and other health-related programs. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Medical Anthropology and the World System Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer, Ida Susser, 1997 A critical examination of the field and study of medical anthropology in the world system. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Troubling Natural Categories Naomi Adelson, Leslie Butt, Karina Kielmann, 2013-11 A collection of essays taking up Margaret Lock's enduring project to question our deeply held assumptions about biology, medicine, and culture. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Applied Anthropology Erve Chambers, 1985 This book presents a coherent view of the field of applied anthropology; it details such areas as specialization, applied research & cultures of policy. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: The Illness Narratives Arthur Kleinman, 2020-10-13 From one of America's most celebrated psychiatrists, the book that has taught generations of healers why healing the sick is about more than just diagnosing their illness. Modern medicine treats sick patients like broken machines -- figure out what is physically wrong, fix it, and send the patient on their way. But humans are not machines. When we are ill, we experience our illness: we become scared, distressed, tired, weary. Our illnesses are not just biological conditions, but human ones. It was Arthur Kleinman, a Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist, who saw this truth when most of his fellow doctors did not. Based on decades of clinical experience studying and treating chronic illness, The Illness Narratives makes a case for interpreting the illness experience of patients as a core feature of doctoring. Before Being Mortal, there was The Illness Narratives. It remains today a prescient and passionate case for bridging the gap between patient and practitioner. |
| understanding and applying medical anthropology: Waterworlds Kirsten Hastrup, Frida Hastrup, 2015-11-01 In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors’ detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world where unbounded relationalities and unsettled frames of orientation mark the lives of all, anthropologists included. Water emerges as a fluid object in more senses than one, challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their objects of study and to responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis. |
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