Critical Medical Anthropology
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Anthropology seminar examining mental health across cultures. This course also analyzes the contemporary global mental health movement.
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
Clothing does more than alter appearance. It can also alter physiology and anatomy, and is a major cause of disease.
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
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
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