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  • the field of Medical Anthropology in social science medicine
    Social Science & Medicine, 2018
    Co-Authors: Catherine Panterbrick, Mark Eggerman
    Abstract:

    Conceptually and methodologically, Medical Anthropology is well-positioned to support a "big-tent" research agenda on health and society. It fosters approaches to social and structural models of health and wellbeing in ways that are critically reflective, cross-cultural, people-centered, and transdisciplinary. In this review article, we showcase these four main characteristics of the field, as featured in Social Science & Medicine over the last fifty years, highlighting their relevance for an international and interdisciplinary readership. First, the practice of critical inquiry in ethnographies of health offers a deep appreciation of sociocultural viewpoints when recording and interpreting lived experiences and contested social worlds. Second, Medical Anthropology champions cross-cultural breadth: it makes explicit local understandings of health experiences across different settings, using a fine-grained, comparative approach to develop a stronger global platform for the analysis of health-related concerns. Third, in offering people-centered views of the world, Anthropology extends the reach of critical enquiry to the lived experiences of hard-to-reach population groups, their structural vulnerabilities, and social agency. Finally, in developing research at the nexus of cultures, societies, biologies, and health, Medical anthropologists generate new, transdisciplinary conversations on the body, mind, person, community, environment, prevention, and therapy. As featured in this journal, scholarly contributions in Medical Anthropology seek to debate human health and wellbeing from many angles, pushing forward methodology, social theory, and health-related practice.

  • The field of Medical Anthropology in Social Science & Medicine.
    Social science & medicine (1982), 2017
    Co-Authors: Catherine Panter-brick, Mark Eggerman
    Abstract:

    Conceptually and methodologically, Medical Anthropology is well-positioned to support a "big-tent" research agenda on health and society. It fosters approaches to social and structural models of health and wellbeing in ways that are critically reflective, cross-cultural, people-centered, and transdisciplinary. In this review article, we showcase these four main characteristics of the field, as featured in Social Science & Medicine over the last fifty years, highlighting their relevance for an international and interdisciplinary readership. First, the practice of critical inquiry in ethnographies of health offers a deep appreciation of sociocultural viewpoints when recording and interpreting lived experiences and contested social worlds. Second, Medical Anthropology champions cross-cultural breadth: it makes explicit local understandings of health experiences across different settings, using a fine-grained, comparative approach to develop a stronger global platform for the analysis of health-related concerns. Third, in offering people-centered views of the world, Anthropology extends the reach of critical enquiry to the lived experiences of hard-to-reach population groups, their structural vulnerabilities, and social agency. Finally, in developing research at the nexus of cultures, societies, biologies, and health, Medical anthropologists generate new, transdisciplinary conversations on the body, mind, person, community, environment, prevention, and therapy. As featured in this journal, scholarly contributions in Medical Anthropology seek to debate human health and wellbeing from many angles, pushing forward methodology, social theory, and health-related practice.

Hans A. Baer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • a dialogue between naturopathy and critical Medical Anthropology what constitutes holistic health
    Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2012
    Co-Authors: Hans A. Baer, Cheryl Beale, Rachel Canaway, Greg Connolly
    Abstract:

    Building on a dialogue between three trained naturopaths and a proponent of critical Medical Anthropology (CMA), this article highlights the relationship between health and society from the viewpoint of two fields that share this focal concern. Both naturopathy and CMA are committed to the notion of holistic health, although their approaches have historically been somewhat different. The responses of the three naturopaths to CMA exhibit both similarities and differences, particularly in terms of insights that CMA may make to naturopathy. This essay also articulates the CMA perspective of naturopathy and posits lessons that naturopathy can teach CMA.[naturopathy, critical Medical Anthropology, holistic health]

  • Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action
    2007
    Co-Authors: Merrill Singer, Hans A. Baer
    Abstract:

    Chapter 1 1. Why Have a Medical Anthropology? Chapter 2 2. What Medical Anthropologists Do Chapter 3 3. What Is Health: Experiencing Illness, Knowing Disease Chapter 4 4. Ethnomedicines: The Worlds of Treatment and Healing Chapter 5 5. Plural Medical Systems in the Contemporary World: Complexity, Complementarity, and Conflict Chapter 6 6. Health Disparity, Health Inequity Chapter 7 7. Health and the Environment:Toward a Healthier World Chapter 8 8. Source Material For Students Chapter 9 9. References Chapter 10 10. Index

  • Medical Anthropology and the world system a critical perspective
    1997
    Co-Authors: Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer, Ida Susser
    Abstract:

    Part 1 What is Medical Anthropology About?: Central Concepts in and the Development of Medical Anthropology Theoretical Perspectives in Medical Anthropology. Part 2 The Social Origins of Disease and Suffering: Health and the Environment - the Global System of Destruction Hunger, Malnutrition, and Homelessness Legal Addictions - Demon in a Bottle Legal Addictions - Up in Smoke Illicit Drugs - Self-Medicating the Hidden Injuries of Oppression AIDS - a Disease of the Global System. Part 3 Medical Systems in Social Context: Medical Systems in Indigenous and Pre-Capitalist State Societies BioMedical Hegemony in the Context of Medical Pluralism. Part 4 Towards and Equitable and Healthy Global System: The Pursuit of Health as a Human Right - Health Praxis and the Struggle for a Healthy World.

  • The misconstruction of critical Medical Anthropology: A response to a cultural constructivist critique
    Social science & medicine (1982), 1997
    Co-Authors: Hans A. Baer
    Abstract:

    Since its emergence over a decade ago as a distinct theoretical framework, critical Medical Anthropology (CMA) has engaged in debate and dialogue with various other perspectives within Medical Anthropology, particularly clinical Anthropology, Medical ecology, and, to a lesser degree, postmodernism. While at least two genres of CMA have emerged, both of which are involved in a dialogue with each other, proponents of other perspectives often misread or "misconstruct" the agenda of CMA as both a theoretical framework and a strategy for health activism. This essay in particular critiques this process among proponents of the interpretative or cultural constructivist perspective. On a positive note, however, I urge critical Medical anthropologists and cultural constructivists within Medical Anthropology to enter into a dialogue with each other because their two perspectives, despite the presence of obvious epistemological differences, share commonalities.

  • Bringing political ecology into critical Medical Anthropology: a challenge to biocultural approaches.
    Medical anthropology, 1996
    Co-Authors: Hans A. Baer
    Abstract:

    This essay presents an effort to incorporate the "environment" into critical Medical Anthropology. Rather than relying upon the multifactorial approach characteristic of Medical ecology or biocultural approaches in Medical Anthropology, it urges critical Medical anthropologists to turn to the burgeoning literature on eco-Marxism, eco-socialism, or political ecology in their efforts to develop a political ecology of health. Given that political ecologists generally advocate democratic eco-socialism as a meaningful alternative to the capitalist world system, this essay also presents a critical examination of the environmental record of post-revolutionary societies.

Catherine Panter-brick - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The field of Medical Anthropology in Social Science & Medicine.
    Social science & medicine (1982), 2017
    Co-Authors: Catherine Panter-brick, Mark Eggerman
    Abstract:

    Conceptually and methodologically, Medical Anthropology is well-positioned to support a "big-tent" research agenda on health and society. It fosters approaches to social and structural models of health and wellbeing in ways that are critically reflective, cross-cultural, people-centered, and transdisciplinary. In this review article, we showcase these four main characteristics of the field, as featured in Social Science & Medicine over the last fifty years, highlighting their relevance for an international and interdisciplinary readership. First, the practice of critical inquiry in ethnographies of health offers a deep appreciation of sociocultural viewpoints when recording and interpreting lived experiences and contested social worlds. Second, Medical Anthropology champions cross-cultural breadth: it makes explicit local understandings of health experiences across different settings, using a fine-grained, comparative approach to develop a stronger global platform for the analysis of health-related concerns. Third, in offering people-centered views of the world, Anthropology extends the reach of critical enquiry to the lived experiences of hard-to-reach population groups, their structural vulnerabilities, and social agency. Finally, in developing research at the nexus of cultures, societies, biologies, and health, Medical anthropologists generate new, transdisciplinary conversations on the body, mind, person, community, environment, prevention, and therapy. As featured in this journal, scholarly contributions in Medical Anthropology seek to debate human health and wellbeing from many angles, pushing forward methodology, social theory, and health-related practice.

Catherine Panterbrick - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the field of Medical Anthropology in social science medicine
    Social Science & Medicine, 2018
    Co-Authors: Catherine Panterbrick, Mark Eggerman
    Abstract:

    Conceptually and methodologically, Medical Anthropology is well-positioned to support a "big-tent" research agenda on health and society. It fosters approaches to social and structural models of health and wellbeing in ways that are critically reflective, cross-cultural, people-centered, and transdisciplinary. In this review article, we showcase these four main characteristics of the field, as featured in Social Science & Medicine over the last fifty years, highlighting their relevance for an international and interdisciplinary readership. First, the practice of critical inquiry in ethnographies of health offers a deep appreciation of sociocultural viewpoints when recording and interpreting lived experiences and contested social worlds. Second, Medical Anthropology champions cross-cultural breadth: it makes explicit local understandings of health experiences across different settings, using a fine-grained, comparative approach to develop a stronger global platform for the analysis of health-related concerns. Third, in offering people-centered views of the world, Anthropology extends the reach of critical enquiry to the lived experiences of hard-to-reach population groups, their structural vulnerabilities, and social agency. Finally, in developing research at the nexus of cultures, societies, biologies, and health, Medical anthropologists generate new, transdisciplinary conversations on the body, mind, person, community, environment, prevention, and therapy. As featured in this journal, scholarly contributions in Medical Anthropology seek to debate human health and wellbeing from many angles, pushing forward methodology, social theory, and health-related practice.