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Methods, Applications, Comparison, Future Directions, Summary, Bibliography & Suggestions for Further Reading, and Cross References.- Available in print or electronically at SAGE Reference Online, providing students with convenient, easy access to its contents. Medical AnthropologyMedical anthropology Medical anthropology is the discipline in anthropology that addresses disease and the health care systems developed to cope with disease. Medical anthropologists study the spectrum of cultural and biological factors that have contributed to health, disease, and health care systems throughout human experience from cross-cultural, historical, and evolutionary points of view. They address a wide variety of health and health care issues including cultural barriers to therapeutic and preventive health care; issues of bioethics; the effect of pandemics, epidemics, and natural disasters; the impact of public policy on health care, practitioner-patient communication in hospitals, clinics, private, and ethnomedical practices; nutrition; perceived etiologies and their effect on therapeutic approaches to healing; differences in the cultures of biomedical, ethnomedical, and other alternative health care ... locked icon Sign in to access this contentSign in Get a 30 day FREE TRIAL
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branch of applied anthropology that focuses on social issues in, and the cultural dimension of, economic development results in reduced poverty and a more even distribution of wealth trying to achieve too much change the tendency to view the so-called less-developed countries as being more alike than they are the cross-cultural and ethnographic and bio-cultural study of global urbanization and life in cities comparative, bio-cultural study of disease, health problems, and health care systems a scientifically identified health threat caused by a bacterium, virus, fungus, parasite, or other pathogen a condition of poor health perceived or felt by an individual beliefs, customs, and specialists concerned with preventing and curing illness personalistic disease theories theory that believes illness is caused by sorcerers, witches, ghosts, or ancestral spirits naturalistic disease theories theory where illness is explained in impersonal terms emotionalistic disease theory assume that emotional experiences cause illness (e.g. susto)
one who diagnoses and treats an illness; often a shaman • a health care system based on scientific knowledge and procedures What is the name for the comparative biocultural study of disease?Medical anthropology studies "human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation". It views humans from multidimensional and ecological perspectives.
Which of the following is the comparative biocultural study of disease health problems and health care systems and is both academic and applied?Which of the following is the comparative, biocultural study of disease, health problems, and health care systems, and is both academic and applied? public anthropology.
What is anthropology in health care?Medical anthropologists study health and illness as biosocial states of being in the lifeworlds of different populations, are attentive to links and flows between macro- and microenvironments, and pay close attention to the distribution (and maldistribution) of diseases and resources promoting health.
What is an example of medical anthropology?Recent examples of the kinds of studies undertaken by medical anthropologists include research into the impact of AIDS on Central African societies, the consequences of the traumas of war on families in Sri Lanka and Guatemala, the impact of the new reproductive technologies (for example, in vitro fertilisation) on ...
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What is the name for the comparative biocultural study of disease health problems?
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