"It views humans from multidimensional and ecological perspectives. It studies 'human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation.'"
Examines the ways in which culture impacts health beliefs and practices, including how illness is understood and treated.
Culture and health: an introduction: This topic provides an overview of the field of medical anthropology, its history, scope, and objectives.
Medical systems and models of disease: This involves the study of various medical systems and models of disease across different cultures, including traditional, biomedical, and complementary and alternative medicine.
Health, illness, and healing practices: This covers how different cultures conceptualize, experience, and treat illness and health, as well as the role of cultural beliefs and practices in influencing health behaviors.
Culture, gender, and health: This looks at the ways in which gender and cultural norms influence health beliefs, health experiences, and access to healthcare services.
Culture, race, and health: This explores the relationship between culture, race, and health outcomes, including the impact of discrimination, racism, and other social determinants of health.
Biomedicalization and medicalization: This analyzes the impact of biomedicalization and medicalization on health practices, including the rise of pharmaceuticals, medical technologies, and disease labeling.
Culture and health disparities: This involves examining the causes and consequences of health disparities across different cultural, social, and economic groups.
Cross-cultural communication and healthcare: This focuses on the importance of culturally sensitive and effective communication between healthcare providers and patients from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Global health and culture: This covers the impact of globalization on health and healthcare systems, including the spread of disease, the globalization of biomedical technologies, and the influence of cultural, economic, and political factors on global health outcomes.
Culturally competent healthcare: This involves the development and implementation of culturally competent healthcare practices, including strategies for addressing health disparities and improving health outcomes for diverse populations.
Cultural epidemiology: This area of medical anthropology focuses on the cultural and social factors that contribute to and influence the spread of disease in different populations.
Global health: This area of medical anthropology examines the socio-cultural, economic, political, and environmental factors that affect the health of individuals and populations worldwide.
Traditional medicine: This area of medical anthropology examines the traditional healing practices and health beliefs of different cultural groups, including indigenous peoples and minority populations.
Biomedicine and Health Care: This area of medical anthropology focuses on the medical systems of western societies and the ways in which they both influence, and are influenced by, social and cultural factors.
Alternative medicine: This area of medical anthropology examines non-traditional medical practices such as herbal medicine, acupuncture, and Ayurveda.
Medical pluralism: This area of medical anthropology studies the co-existence and interactions between different medical systems, both traditional and biomedical, within a given society.
Health disparities and inequalities: This area of medical anthropology examines the disproportionate distribution of health outcomes and access to healthcare based on social, economic, and cultural factors.
Embodiment and experience: This area of medical anthropology studies the ways in which cultural and social factors shape the experience of illness, disease, and health.
Mental health and illness: This area of medical anthropology focuses on the social and cultural factors that contribute to mental health and illness, including stigma, cultural beliefs, and political-economic structures.
Reproduction and fertility: Research in this area of medical anthropology examines the socio-cultural and political factors that influence reproductive health and practices such as contraception, pregnancy, childbirth, and infertility.
"...a subfield of social and cultural anthropology that examines the ways in which culture and society are organized around or influenced by issues of health, health care and related issues."
"The term 'medical anthropology' has been used since 1963 as a label for empirical research and theoretical production by anthropologists into the social processes and cultural representations of health, illness and the nursing/care practices associated with these."
"In Europe, the terms 'anthropology of medicine', 'anthropology of health' and 'anthropology of illness' have also been used..."
"...the terms 'anthropology of medicine', 'anthropology of health' and 'anthropology of illness' have also been used." (no specific time frame mentioned)
"...'medical anthropology' was also a translation of the 19th-century Dutch term 'medische anthropologie'."
"'...medical anthropology' was also a translation of the 19th-century Dutch term 'medische anthropologie'."
"It studies 'human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation.'"
"It views humans from multidimensional and ecological perspectives."
"...it is one of the most highly developed areas of anthropology and applied anthropology..."
"...examines the ways in which culture and society are organized around or influenced by issues of health, health care and related issues."
"It examines the ways in which culture and society are organized around or influenced by issues of health, health care and related issues."
"...empirical research and theoretical production by anthropologists into the social processes and cultural representations of health, illness, and the nursing/care practices associated with these."
"...the social processes and cultural representations of health, illness, and the nursing/care practices associated with these."
"It is one of the most highly developed areas of anthropology and applied anthropology..."
"...the social processes and cultural representations of health, illness, and the nursing/care practices associated with these."
"It studies 'human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation.'"
"It examines the ways in which culture and society are organized around or influenced by issues of health, health care and related issues."
"It views humans from multidimensional and ecological perspectives. It studies 'human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation'."
"This term was chosen by some authors during the 1940s to refer to philosophical studies on health and illness."