Teaching Medical Anthropology

Medical Anthropology | Department of Anthropology

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Medical anthropology is the study of how health and illness are shaped, experienced, and understood in the context of cultural, historical, and political forces. It is one of the most exciting subfields of anthropology and has increasingly clear relevance for students …

Medical Anthropology | Global Health and Social Medicine

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The Program in Medical and Psychiatric Anthropology is one of the core academic programs in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. The Program …

Ethnographic books for teaching and learning about Medical …

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An Introduction to Medical Anthropology - ThoughtCo

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Medical Anthropology – SAPIENS

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Medical anthropological approaches center biology and the sociocultural mechanisms that help different groups make sense of illness, health, bodily functions, and well …

Service-Learning in Medical Anthropology – Teaching Hub

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In order to report on medical providers’ behavior in a constructive manner, students ultimately had to learn to apply cultural relativism toward the practitioners they observed. …

Resources for teaching medical anthropology

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This course provides a comprehensive grounding in biocultural medical anthropology, which emphasizes understanding how health and healing are shaped by both biological …

The promise of teaching medical anthropology - S Y N A P S I S

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Taught through a combination of lectures, small group discussions, and individual reflective writing, the aim is to explore social issues—such as race, …

Teaching Medical Anthropology - Todd - 1978 - Medical …

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Teaching Medical Anthropology Part II. Teaching Resources: A Survey of Departments Harry F. Todd Jr., Julio L. Ruffini, Judith C. Barker First published: May …

Teaching Comics in a Medical …

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Before launching ourselves into the world of comics and medicine, we first read key texts in anthropology that address the importance of story in the work of biomedical …