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Eric J. Bailey - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Working at the National Institutes of Health: Developing a New Set of Cross-Over Skills as an Applied Medical Anthropologist
    Practicing Anthropology, 2017
    Co-Authors: Eric J. Bailey
    Abstract:

    This article reviews a portion of my professional career in academia and outside of academia for the purpose of highlighting the cross-over professional development skills that I learned to use in different fields of expertise. Although I had received my academic doctoral training at an applied Medical anthropology program (Wayne State University, Detroit, MI) in the 1980s and a few years later completed a postdoctoral fellowship program which earned me a Masters of Public Health degree (MPH) from Emory University (Atlanta, GA), I really did not know what it was truly like to be a public health professional until I was hired, trained, and worked for the National Institutes of Health. Cross-over skills are skills that allow a professional to transfer to another high-skilled professional job successfully. It is not until I immersed myself in a completely different work setting when I discovered that these cross-over professional development skills were advantageous to my professional career.

  • The Medical Anthropologist as health department consultant
    Practicing Anthropology, 1994
    Co-Authors: Eric J. Bailey
    Abstract:

    Medical anthropology is often poorly understood by those who are not a part of the discipline. When working with other health care professionals, Medical Anthropologists are commonly asked to explain what their field is, what they do, and how they can assist clinicians and public health officials in appropriating better health care for their patients/clients. Many assume that Medical Anthropologists are always on excavations like archaeologists or that we are very similar to biologists. To counteract such misconceptions and misinterpretation, we need to develop practical applications of our work so that others can benefit from our expertise, and we need to market our skills better. In sum, practical strategies are needed in applied Medical anthropology in order to justify our existence in economic and sociopolitical terms with various health organizations.

  • Community health screening programs for African-Americans and the Medical Anthropologist.
    Social science & medicine (1982), 1991
    Co-Authors: Eric J. Bailey
    Abstract:

    Community health screening programs were originally designed: to stimulate change in family and community knowledge and behavior relating to the prevention of disease; to inform the use of available health resources; and to improve the environmental, economic, and educational factors related to health. Since their inception, however, community health screening programs have primarily used conventional approaches to health improvement for the African-American community. That is, the need is not merely for the provision of more preventative and curative health services or the distribution of services to passive recipients, but for the active involvement of local populations in ways which will preserve or repattern their knowledge, attitudes and motivation concerning major health care issues. Health care professionals such as the clinicians need to expand their biopsychosocial model to include specific sociocultural data concerning African-American health care seeking pattern. Collaborative efforts of this type will therefore enable health care professionals to design future community health screening programs for the African-American community that are practical and culturally-oriented.

Merrill Singer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The social origins and expressions of illness.
    British medical bulletin, 2004
    Co-Authors: Merrill Singer
    Abstract:

    This chapter draws on British Medical Anthropologist Ronald Frankenburg's notion of the 'making social of disease', and his related concepts 'the making of disease' and 'the making individual of disease', to review the bioMedical conception of disease from the perspective of Medical anthropology. As opposed to the tendency of biomedicine to treat disease as a category in nature, a finite and objective reality discoverable through scientific endeavour, Medical anthropology seeks to demonstrate the social origins of both the bioMedical conception of disease and the expression of the sicknesses labelled diseases by doctors.

Eriona Hysolli - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Marlene Dobkin De Rios - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • what we can learn from shamanic healing brief psychotherapy with latino immigrant clients
    American Journal of Public Health, 2002
    Co-Authors: Marlene Dobkin De Rios
    Abstract:

    The author, a Medical Anthropologist and licensed psychotherapist, draws on a database of 700 Latino immigrant families whom she has treated to demonstrate concepts and techniques of psychotherapeutic intervention that are derived from shamanic roots in the immigrant’s original culture. Congruences may exist between the shamanic techniques of the coastal and Amazonian regions of Peru and 3 Western psychotherapy techniques—hypnosis, behavior modification, and cognitive restructuring. By using historic links with Hispanic culture and the techniques discussed in the commentary, psychotherapists can acquire cultural competence that will enable them to effectively reduce mental illness symptoms presented by US Latino immigrants in clinical practice.

Joe Rosenthal - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Cecil Helman: GP, Anthropologist, writer, poet, teacher, and internationalist
    British Journal of General Practice, 2009
    Co-Authors: Surinder Singh, Joe Rosenthal
    Abstract:

    Cecil Helman, London GP and internationally renowned Medical Anthropologist and writer has sadly died, on 15 June 2009 at the Royal Free Hospital, from complications of motor neurone disease. Cecil was born into a Medical family in South Africa in 1944 and qualified at the University of Cape Town Medical School in 1967. He left South Africa soon after and came to Britain to take up general practice and study social anthropology at University College London under Professor Mary Douglas. He continued to work for 27 years as a GP in North London but also pursued a …