Professor Good argues that this impoverished perspective neglects many facets of Western medical practice and obscures its kinship with healing in other traditions. Drawing on his own anthropological ...

The next step is for anthropologists to consider how their theories and methods can contribute ... we propose five domains comprising a new agenda for anthropology to engage with global mental health.

The course has joint enrollment with the PhD course HES9280 – Medical Anthropology: Current themes and theories. Lectures followed by seminars and group work, including group assignments. You have to ...

This course focuses on anthropological perspectives on health, illness, bodies and medicine. It presents current ethnographic research on the interactions between biology, culture, society, and ...

So too can it serve as a framework for criticism of biomedical research, theory, and practice ... 19,59,60 Biomedicine and medical anthropology should both work towards the best interests of patients.

Critical medical anthropology (CMA) is a branch of medical anthropology that blends critical theory and ground-level ethnographic approaches in the consideration of the political economy of health, ...

(2022). Introduction to Special Issue: Therapeutic Apprenticeship. Special Issue, “Therapeutic Apprenticeship,” Medicine Anthropology Theory 9(1): 1-12 (open access) Cooper, Amy and Oscar Feo. (2022).

The USF Medical Anthropology B.S. provides students with key ... an understanding of the core anthropological theories and methods used to study human health and illness, 2) an introduction to the ...

My research engages theories of sex and gender, the critical study of science and medicine, political economies of medicine and medical innovation, trans- studies, anthropological theories of practice ...

students are trained broadly in contemporary anthropological theory and methodology. They have the option to complete their coursework on a general track or further specialize in Medical Anthropology.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993], ©1993. Traditional birth attendants in rural North India : the social organization of childbearing / Roger Jeffery and Patricia M. Jeffery -- ...