Globalization of Health: Positive or Negative? (Anthropological Perspective)

Positive and Negative Effects of Globalization On Iran's Economy and Culture

Globalization is a process of similarity and integration of human in the worldwide in influence of increasing and extension of information and communications technology, and  compaction of time and space, under guidance of democracy and domination discourse of neo liberalism. Globalization becomes a process of reshaping human life through globalizing certain values, which include economic patte...

Globalization as a Turning Point for Human Rights: a Positive or Negative Evolution?

Globalization is a crucial turning point for the era of modernity, signifying a passage to a technological globalized human society. The basic vehicle of globalization is thus technology which enables the production of goods, the international trade, the exchange of human knowledge and international transportation and communication to a point where the very meaning of time and space are shorten...

Tuberculosis: an Anthropological Perspective

Tuberculosis is a contagious and destructive disease that has plagued humans and their domesticated animals for at least 6000 years (Morse, Brothwell, and Ucko 1964), and continues to be a serious disease worldwide. Like most infectious diseases, the virulence of tuberculosis constantly fluctuates as changes occur in the host, the pathogen, and the environment. For example, in the United States...

Positive Woman or Negative Man?

An anthropological perspective on obesity.

An anthropological perspective on obesity considers both its evolutionary background and cross-cultural variation. It must explain three basic facts about obesity: gender dimorphism (women greater than men), an increase with modernization, and a positive association with socioeconomic status. Preindustrial diets varied in quality but shared a tendency to periodic shortages. Such shortages, part...