Medical Anthropology and Traditional Medicines

[Medical anthropology].

Medical anthropology is the study of human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation. The discipline draws upon the four fields of anthropology to analyse and compare the health of regional populations and of ethnic and cultural enclaves, both prehistoric and contemporary. Collaboration among paleopathologists, human biologists, ethnologists, and linguists has created ...

Medical Anthropology

38 interviews of epilepsy patients and 22 interviews of care givers of Dementia (Alzheimer Disease) were conducted between August 2006 and July 2007 in neuropsychiatric hospital. The content analysis of these interviews is illuminated here in the paper. The cultural dimensions of epilepsy and dementia reveal social stigma, problems of marriage, school education and employment etc. in case of ep...

Nonsecular Medical Anthropology.

A nonsecular medical anthropology insists on the ways medicine and science have constituted 'the secular' itself through the 'secular self'-how medical knowing has been used to craft the secular political subject. As James Boon noted, too often in social theory, "religion gets safely tucked away-restricted theoretically to 'meaning' rather than power" (1998:245). The authors of the six articles...

Medical anthropology against war.

In my 2006 presidential address on “Medical Anthropology at the Intersections,” I attempted to convey all of my high hopes for medical anthropology in the new millennium (Inhorn 2007). We are nearly 50 years old as a discipline, and we are on the verge of numerous, exciting intersections with multiple fields. At the 2007 meeting, I announced our plans for the first independent Society for Medic...

Medical anthropology at home.