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The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs Anthropological insights into the use of race/ethnicity to explore genetic determinants of disparities in health Journal Article (1996). Anthropological insights into the use of race/ethnicity to explore genetic determinants of disparities in health.

This paper is concerned with a bio-cultural/bio-social approach to the study of human variability. The basic premise is that the bio-cultural approach is essential for anthropological study of the survival and well-being ofhuman populations in the 21 century. The chapter is delimited to two basic questions: What and why is bio-cultural approach? How is to go about it? Addressing the first q...

In order to examine the development of anthropological paradigms and their dialogue with medicine, I divide the discussion into two general, but non-exclusive, approaches: one that focuses on health and disease as social and cultural experience and construction, and another that examines health from an interactional and political perspective. For the first approach, I focus on North American an...

The adoption of increasingly powerful and flexible machines developed within artificial intelligence, like agencies, envisages a novel anthropological framework of man and his relation to machines. The paper aims to present some innovative ethical observations that are stimulated by this new anthropological framework.

the mystical anthropological notion of internationalism means belonging to a common divine origin and natural interfaces between humans, beyond national and linguistic differences. accordingly, it is necessary to consider a metaphysical hometown as origin and ultimate goal for human being. in rumi’s mystical approach, human is defined as an observer of his relationship with the origin of being ...

Abstract The phenomenon of child language brokering (CLB), that is, translation and interpreting tasks children take on to facilitate communication for their parents other adults, is often invisible or neglected. present article seeks study CLB in the province Barcelona (Spain) through theoretical lens Marcel Mauss's anthropological concept ‘gift’. authors employ interviews with brokers, young ...