Medical anthropology and global health

2007 ◽  
pp. 433-463
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Medical Anthropology

Climate change and global health: a medical anthropology perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 140 (4) ◽  
pp. 196-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
CS Mena ◽  
M Artz ◽  
C Llanten
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Medical Anthropology

scholarly journals Global Health Research, Anthropology and Realist Enquiry

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-51
Author(s):  
Sara Van Belle
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Global Health Research ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Deep Layers ◽  
Low And Middle Income

In this article, I set out to capture the dynamics of two streams within the field of global health research: realist research and medical anthropology. I critically discuss the development of methodology and practice in realist health research in low- and middle-income countries against the background of anthropological practice in global health to make claims on why realist enquiry has taken a high flight. I argue that in order to provide a contribution to today’s complex global issues, we need to adopt a pragmatic stance and move past disciplinary silos: both methodologies have the potential to be well-suited to an analysis of deep layers of context and of key social mechanisms.

scholarly journals Introduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramah McKay ◽  
Cal (Crystal) Biruk
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Special Section ◽  
International Health ◽  
Health Practice ◽  
Health Studies ◽  
Key Sites ◽  
Anthropological Critique

As an emerging subfield of medical anthropology with roots in histories and geographies of colonial and international health, critical global health studies reflects both changing modes of health practice and the centering of critique as a core anthropological endeavor. This special section seeks to analyze and reflect on the meanings, valences, affects, and entailments of anthropological critique, taking the rise of global health and flourishing of global health ethnography as key sites of investigation. Each of the contributing pieces is oriented around a global health object or technology.

scholarly journals The trouble with inequalities in global health partnerships

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carina Fourie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Ethical Analysis ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Health Partnerships

In this essay, I offer a philosophical–ethical analysis of inequalities in global health partnerships. Using literature from medical anthropology and the health sciences as a basis, I begin by distinguishing two categories of concern. First, I identify the inequalities between partners, such as between research institutions in the United States and African countries, which can include resource, epistemic, and power inequalities, and, second, I highlight associated concerns such as the lack of acknowledgement of inequalities. I then focus on what might be ethically wrong with these inequalities, emphasizing that there can be significant instrumental and noninstrumental harms associated with them. By underscoring what may be ethically troubling about inequalities in global health partnerships, this essay provides preliminary guidance on how to create more equal and more equitable relationships between partners in the field of global health.

The Future of Medical Anthropology: Meeting Global Health Challenges

2009 ◽  
Vol 50 (9) ◽  
pp. 13-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merrill Singer ◽  
Pamela I Erickson
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals The Syndemics and Structural Violence of the COVID Pandemic: Anthropological Insights on a Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-32
Author(s):  
Merrill Singer ◽  
Barbara Rylko-Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Noncommunicable Diseases ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Global Health Care

AbstractThis paper examines the COVID-19 pandemic in light of two key concepts in medical anthropology: syndemics and structural violence. Following a discussion of the nature of these two concepts, the paper addresses the direct and associated literatures on the syndemic and structural violence features of the COVID pandemic, with a specific focus on: 1) the importance of local socioenvironmental conditions/demographics and disease configurations in creating varying local syndemic expressions; 2) the ways that the pandemic has exposed the grave weaknesses in global health care investment; and 3) how the syndemic nature of the pandemic reveals the rising rate of noncommunicable diseases and their potential for interaction with current and future infectious disease. The paper concludes with a discussion on the role of anthropology in responding to COVID-19 from a syndemics perspective.

scholarly journals Soap

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cal (Crystal) Biruk
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
International Health ◽  
Global South ◽  
Feminist Science Studies ◽  
Feminist Science ◽  
The Core ◽  
Disciplinary Practice ◽  
Health Studies

Anthropology has long grappled with the politics of critique. In critical global health studies, an emerging subfield of medical anthropology with roots in histories and geographies of colonial and international health, ethnographers negotiate relations and transactions in the field that pivot around boundaries at the core of our disciplinary practice: inside/outside, critique/complicity, theoretical/applied. Yet, while critique is a primary endeavor of the anthropologist, few have explicitly analyzed or reflected on its meanings, valences, affects, and entailments, particularly amid the rise of global health and the NGOization of the global South that inflects much of our work. In this essay, I reflect on the state of critique in critical global health studies, sketching its gestures, rhetoric, and intentions. Then, I trace some of the journeys of the bar of soap pictured below, an object that touched me in many senses of the term by intersecting, facilitating, and holding my anthropological interest for over a decade. Finally, drawing on recent feminist science studies scholarship, I suggest that critique, as entangled and entangling practice, is a form of care that might productively reframe anthropologists’ normative aspirations to ‘usefulness’ or ‘relevance’.

Medical Anthropology and Global Health

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela I. Erickson
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Medical Anthropology
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