ANTC61H3 : Good, Kleinman, Miner

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25 May 2011
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Week 1: a reader in medical anthropology pp. 1-6. managing the human body, treating illness, and providing care for those who suffer. Important alternatives to biomedical conceptualizations of health and healing, and by the religious and spiritual traditions drawn on by individuals and communities throughout the life cycle and in times of crisis. **medical anthropology thus deals with many of the most vital issues that define what it means to be human. mortgaging the future to pay for treatments. **this reader is intended to theoretically engage writing in medical anthropology. Emergent realities -new biotechnology, new epidemics, new forms of postcolonial disorders . medical anthropology emerged as a distinctive subdiscipline within social anthropology in the. research focused on poverty and unequal distribution of disease and access to medical care. Part 1: antecedents: standing in for a large body of work from early 20th century anthropology on illness and healing in small, non-literate societies.

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