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

Medical anthropology studies "human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation". It views humans from multidimensional and ecological...

understanding of addiction. Emerging in the early 1980s, the critical medical anthropology model was introduced, and as Merrill Singer offers 'was applied...

Professor Emerita of Anthropology and the director and co-founder (with Margaret Lock) of the PhD program in Critical Medical Anthropology at the University...

Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present...

Organization of Medical Anthropology was formed in 1967 and first met on April 27, 1968, at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)...

Cognitive anthropology is an approach within cultural anthropology and biological anthropology in which scholars seek to explain patterns of shared knowledge...

Psychological anthropology is an interdisciplinary subfield of anthropology that studies the interaction of cultural and mental processes. This subfield...

professor of medical anthropology, psychiatry and global health and social medicine at Harvard University. Kleinman’s medical anthropology research has...

University, earning an MD and a PhD in medical anthropology in 1990, returning to Haiti multiple times during medical school to continue his work in Cange...

Medical Anthropology Quarterly (MAQ) is an international peer-reviewed academic journal published for the Society for Medical Anthropology, a section of...

Bateson, Gregory (1972). Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology. University Of Chicago Press...

traditional medicines, it applies the methods of ethnobotany and medical anthropology. Often, the medicine traditions it studies are preserved only by...

(AAMA), a certified medical assistant in the US Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) Critical medical anthropology Central Mountain Air...

the health crisis of the U.S. urban poor; the perspective of critical medical anthropology". Social Science & Medicine. 39 (7): 931–948. CiteSeerX 10.1...

to develop the theoretical perspective within medical anthropology known as "critical medical anthropology". Singer also developed the public health concepts...

conditions outside Euro-American society. Reflecting advances in medical anthropology, DSM-5 replaced the term "culture-bound syndrome" with a set of terms...

Peter McCaffery; Maureen Porter (1 January 2004). Midwifery and the Medicalization of Childbirth: Comparative Perspectives. Nova Publishers. pp. 243–....

training of psychiatrists. She is Watkins University Professor in the Anthropology Department at Stanford University. Luhrmann was elected to the American...

Sociology. 24 (2): 99–110. Singer, Merrill 2004 Critical Medical Anthropology. In Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures...

considered an important proponent of neo-Marxist theory and of critical medical anthropology.[citation needed] His most recent book Righteous Dopefiend was...

Das, Margaret Lock". Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 13 (3): 375–377. doi:10.1525/maq.1999.13.3.375.2. JSTOR 649614. Anthropology in the Margins: Comparative...

In medicine and medical anthropology, a culture-bound syndrome, culture-specific syndrome, or folk illness is a combination of psychiatric and somatic...

medical sociology.: 250  Peter Conrad notes that medical anthropology studies some of the same phenomena as medical sociology but argues that medical...

critical ethnographic work. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 17(4), 195–202. Leslie, Heather Young (2005). "Tongan Doctors and a Critical Medical Ethnography"...

ancestor worship and shamanism are held by the people of the Nusantara. While medical doctors and revivalist Islam and Christianity have caused a decrease in...

in medical anthropology: theoretical trajectories, emergent realities. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell. ISBN 9781405183147. —— (2018). Anthropology in...

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School of Oriental and African Studies. He continued his training in anthropology at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he obtained his doctorate in...

called "biogenetic structuralism." Laughlin is an emeritus professor of anthropology and religion at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Following service...