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As I mentioned in a previous post, Medical Anthropology is the anthropological study of health and illness. This subfield of anthropology consists of five basic approaches. Note: Some textbooks merge some of these approaches into just three, but I was
In a previous post, I explained that Medical Anthropology is a branch of Anthropology that studies health and illness from an anthropological perspective. So, what is this anthropological perspective? Well, there are a few different ways that Medical Anthropologists approach
In the last post, I talked about how people act when they are sick, which is called the sick role. Now, I’d like to continue talking about being sick and focus on the stages of sickness experience. Some researchers believe
So when you become sick, how does your culture say you are supposed to act? When you are sick, people don’t expect you to do the same things as when you were healthy. There are different expectations when you are
In the last post, I talked a little about cultural psychiatry, and how the definition of normal behavior and abnormal behavior differs around the world. Because of this, medical anthropologists wonder if our Western definitions of mental illnesses are not
In a previous post, I explained how medical anthropology is the anthropological study of health and illness. In this post, I’d like to talk a little about one of the major branches of medical anthropology, which is called cultural psychiatry.
It’s back to school time! If you aren’t in school, but you’re interested in taking some FREE online Anthropology courses, this post is for you! In the last post, I shared some free online courses related to the 4 fields
In this post, I would like to share more information about Anthropological research methods. In a previous blog post, I explained how Cultural Anthropologists study culture. And, in another post, I explained how to do ethnographic surveys. Also, I talked
As you probably know, I am an Anthropologist. In some previous posts (here and here and here), I mentioned that I am a Medical Anthropologist– I specialize in Medical Anthropology. I even worked as a Medical Anthropologist for the Cleveland
We’ve all been hearing about the new coronavirus, called COVID-19. Many cities around the world have been shut down, to try to contain the virus. I live in Washington state in the USA, which has been called the epicenter of
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