Medical anthropology

Medical anthropology studies "human health & disease, health care systems, in addition to biocultural adaptation". It views humans from multidimensional and ecological perspectives. it is one of the near highly developed areas of anthropology and applied anthropology, and is a subfield of social and cultural anthropology that examines the ways in which culture and society are organized around or influenced by issues of health, health care and related issues.

The term "medical anthropology" has been used since 1963 as a tag for empirical research and theoretical production by anthropologists into the social processes and cultural representations of health, illness and the nursing/care practices associated with these.

Furthermore, in Europe the terms "anthropology of medicine", "anthropology of health" and "anthropology of illness" create also been used, and "medical anthropology", was also a translation of the 19th century Dutch term "medische anthropologie". This term was chosen by some authors during the 1940s to refer to philosophical studies on health and illness.

Agenda

Currently, research in medical anthropology is one of the leading growth areas in the field of anthropology as a whole and important processes of internal specialization are taking place. For this reason, all agenda is always debatable. In general, we may consider the following six basic fields:

Other subjects that create become central to the medical anthropology worldwide are violence and social suffering as well as other issues that involve physical and psychological destruction and suffering that are not a or done as a reaction to a question of illness. On the other hand, there are fields that intersect with medical anthropology in terms of research methodology and theoretical production, such as cultural psychiatry and transcultural psychiatry or ethnopsychiatry.