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There are more types of borders today than ever before in history. Borders of all kinds define every aspect of social life in the twenty-first century. From the biometric data that divides the smallest aspects of our bodies to the aerial... more
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      Critical TheoryEuropean HistoryCultural HistoryCultural Studies
Following the neoliberal restructuration of the Turkish welfare and banking systems in the 2000s, many veterans of Turkey’s Kurdish war faced debt enforcement due to failed payments for prosthetic limbs. Veterans responded to debt... more
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      Gender StudiesAnthropologyMedical AnthropologyDisability Studies
Daniel Renfrew's Life Without Lead: Contamination, Crisis, and Hope in Uruguay (2018) is a masterful undertaking on the anthropology of disaster and its everydayness. An ethnographic portrayal that is prismatic in its attention, the book... more
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      Industrial And Labor RelationsMedical AnthropologyEthnographyPolitical Ecology
The greatest cause of human disease is human culture, and the solution is to change that culture and the way we live. It has nothing to do with animals. A medical industry dedicated to animal research is corrupted by cruelty and cannot be... more
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      SociologyMedical AnthropologySocial SciencesBioethics
Nell’ambito del progetto I.C.A.R.E (Integration and Community Care for Asylum and Refugees in Emergency), l’AOU Meyer attraverso il Centro di Salute Globale (CSG) in convenzione con la regione Toscana, ha recentemente promosso una... more
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      Applied AnthropologyCritical Medical AnthropologyAntropologia medica
The demand for healing appears to produce a kind of ‘market for healing.’ It is often not possible to evaluate healing’s effectiveness, utility, or economic efficiency (‘value for money’), however, The market for healing, therefore, is... more
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      Medical SociologyAfrican StudiesMedical AnthropologySouth African Politics and Society
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      Medical AnthropologyCritical Medical AnthropologySocial Determinants of HealthPopulation Health
Aim-To determine the gender using mental foramen as landmark on a panoramic radiographs in selected North Gujarat population. Objective-1. To evaluate and compare the superior border of mental foramen to lower border of mandible(S-L) and... more
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      Medical SociologyMedical SciencesMedical AnthropologyMedical Informatics
An anthropological research report on a short (3 day) project as a participant-observer in a twenty-first century (Christmas, 2013) 'alternative' Christmas celebration, held at a spiritual retreat centre in New Zealand. This was... more
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      Philosophy of ScienceSocial and Cultural AnthropologyCritical Medical AnthropologyPhilosophy of (Social) Science
Nonprofit efforts to develop ±3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)-better known as the street drug Ecstasy-as a prescription pharmaceutical provide the opportunity to examine recent theorizations of pharmaceuticals as fluid objects... more
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      PsychedelicsCritical Medical AnthropologyScience and Technology Studies
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      Medical AnthropologyHealth CareHealth Care PolicyCritical Medical Anthropology
Women in North India are socialized to care for others, so what do they do when they get a disease like diabetes that requires intensive self-care? In Sugar and Tension, Lesley Jo Weaver uses women’s experiences with diabetes in New Delhi... more
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      Psychological AnthropologyMedical AnthropologyDepressionDiabetes
Willen, Sarah S. & Jennifer Cook. 2016. “Health-Related Deservingness.” In Felicity Thomas, ed. Handbook of Migration and Health. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
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      Medical AnthropologyCritical Medical AnthropologyPublic Health EthicsMedical Ethics
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      SociologyMedical SociologyMedical AnthropologyHealth Promotion
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      AnthropologyMedical AnthropologyPolitical EconomyCritical Medical Anthropology
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      Medical SociologyMedical AnthropologyCritical Medical StudiesCritical Medical Anthropology
This study explores the disparity between psychiatric interventions and the lived experience of problematic drinking, which is a critical global mental health issue, including in an indigenous area in Northern Taiwan. This strategically... more
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      Medical AnthropologyCritical Medical AnthropologyAlcohol StudiesIndigenous Peoples
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      Medical AnthropologyCritical Medical Anthropology
People with allergies know how important it is to stay away from allergens to which they are sensitive. But what if those substances are in your food and you don't know it? The “natural flavor” loophole in ingredient labeling means that... more
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      Nutrition and DieteticsAnthropologyMedical AnthropologyFood Science
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      History of Science and TechnologyMedical SociologyMedical AnthropologyClassics
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      AnthropologyAnthropology of KnowledgeCritical Medical AnthropologyCultural Anthropology
This paper argues that the figure of the migrant has come to be seen as a potential terrorist in the West, under the condition of a double, but completely opposed, set of crises internal to the nation-state.
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      Critical TheoryEuropean HistoryCultural HistorySociology
This book, written by Carl Walker (a senior lecturer in psychology at the school of applied social science, university of Brighton) within a critical psychology perspective, aims mainly at defending the following thesis: "depression is a... more
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      Critical TheoryCultural StudiesClinical PsychologyPsychiatry
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Maya Blue is a colour that is more than a pigment; it had roles in status, ritual and performance, being daubed onto pots and people before sacrifice. Here researchers use experimental and historical evidence to discover how it was made,... more
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      ReligionHistoryEthnohistoryArchaeology
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Downloaded from www.medrech.com " Rehabilitation of cleft lip and palate patients with a systematic approach " Sherawat Abstract: The oral rehabilitation of lip and palate patients is challenging and many of these patients are suffer if... more
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      Medical SociologyMedical SciencesMedical AnthropologyMedical Informatics
This article is based on a qualitative study that set out to analyze the labels and terms attached to 28 people affected by albinism in villages in Kilolo district, Tanzania. Even though national and international attention to killings of... more
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      Medical AnthropologyLinguistic AnthropologyStigmaInclusion
In this article, I examine the various meanings of Mexican and Central American migrant women's utilization of private food assistance programs. I present findings from 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2008 and 2011... more
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      Latino/A StudiesGender StudiesAnthropologyMedical Anthropology
In this article, we discuss the use of critical medical anthropology (CMA) as a theoretical framework for research in the maternity care setting. With reference to the doctoral research of the first author, we argue for the relevance of... more
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      EthnographyQualitative methodologyCritical Medical AnthropologyQualitative Health Research
Reproduction is central to contemporary anthropological theory, intersecting with studies of kinship, biomedicine, exchange, sex, gender, politics, nature, and capitalism. The production of reproduction as a category and its domaining as... more
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      Medical AnthropologySex and GenderReproductionHistory of Anthropology
Objectives: Conversations between anthropologists and psychiatrists have led to new theoretical trajectories, research agendas and clinical practices as social scientists and medical practitioners forged new understandings about the... more
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      PsychiatryMedical AnthropologyCritical Medical AnthropologyGlobal Mental Health
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      AnthropologyMedical AnthropologySocial AnthropologySocial Sciences
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      Developmental PsychologyMedical AnthropologyCritical Medical Anthropology
Willen, Sarah S., Michael Knipper, César E Abadía-Barrero, & Nadav Davidovitch. 2017. "Syndemic vulnerability and the right to health." The Lancet 389(10072):964-977 Investigators working both in syndemics, a field of applied health... more
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      Medical AnthropologyHuman RightsSocial JusticeCritical Medical Anthropology
Irregulære immigranter har på noen områder full tilgang til velferdsytelser, men på mange områder er tilgangen svært begrenset enten i form av rettsregler eller andre barrierer. Denne antologien undersøker forholdet mellom rettslig... more
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      Human Rights LawWelfare StateSocial and Cultural AnthropologyMigration
Anthropology seminar examining mental health across cultures. This course also analyzes the contemporary global mental health movement.
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      PsychiatryMedical AnthropologyEthnographyMental Health
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      Medical SociologyCritical Medical AnthropologySociology of HealthPublic Health
The task of studying the impact of social class on physical and mental health involves, among other things, the use of a conceptual toolbox that defines what social class is, establishes how to measure it, and sets criteria that help... more
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      Critical TheorySociologyCultural StudiesMedical Sociology
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      AnthropologyIconographyBioarchaeologyPaleopathology
Clothing does more than alter appearance.  It can also alter physiology and anatomy, and is a major cause of disease.
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      Social PsychologyAllied Health SciencesAnthropologyMedical Anthropology
Questo libro è un'analisi antropologica della pratica della donazione del sangue in due comunità di immigrati marocchini a Torino. Nella prima parte del testo la riflessione socio-antropologica si sofferma sui concetti di donazione e di... more
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      Critical Medical AnthropologyGift Giving (Economic Anthropology)Muslim immigrants in EuropeAnthropology of Morocco
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      Medical AnthropologyDevelopment StudiesSoutheast Asian StudiesPrimary Health Care
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      Medical AnthropologyDevelopment StudiesSoutheast Asian StudiesInternational Development
Analisou-se a implementação do modelo de atenção da Política Nacional de Saúde Indígena (Pnaspi) no Distrito Sanitário Especial Indígena do Alto Rio Negro, à luz da diretriz da atenção diferenciada. A temática foi investigada sob três... more
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      Indigenous HealthCritical Medical AnthropologyMedical Anthropology/ antropología médicaCommunity Health Workers
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      African StudiesAnthropologyMedical AnthropologyEthnography
How do you know when medical news is fake? Can you trust what you read simply because it comes from an allegedly reputable source? Surely, you can trust information coming from the American Cancer Society, right? Wrong! The case in... more
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      OncologyMedical AnthropologyCensorshipEpidemiology
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In recent years, the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH) and the World Health Organization have worked closely with governments across the global South to redress major treatment gaps to improve access to mental health services. In... more
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      PsychiatrySouth Asian StudiesCritical Medical AnthropologyGlobal Mental Health