Medical Anthropology - Science topic

Background: The medical humanities (MH) are important in medical education, and one of the most relevant is medical anthropology. This discipline constitutes the bridge between the biomedical world and the human sciences because it can detect social, cultural, and psychological variables that can act as barriers to the provision of medical services...

The paper's primary objective is to explore how Roma individuals' experiences with healthcare services influence their overall attitudes toward health and to uncover their strategies to handle these experiences. The research involved interviews with residents of an Eastern Slovak Roma settlement. Classical qualitative ethno-graphic methods like sem...

O tema do artigo é a atuação do médico temporário em contexto de fronteira, mais especificamente no Hospital de Guarnição do Exército em São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas. Esta atuação enfrenta desafios únicos que vão além da prática médica convencional, exigindo adaptabilidade e resiliência. A partir de pesquisa bibliográfica e relato de experiên...

Editorial for the September Issue, 2024

¿Dónde está el sujeto en la producción de vulnerabilidad en la salud ajena? ¿Cómo se organizan social y culturalmente los actores cuyas representaciones y prácticas producen dicha vulnerabilidad? ¿Y cómo se articulan esta y sus protagonistas con la toma de decisiones, la atención en salud y los cuidados? Para responder a ello, el autor acuña el con...

Los genitales femeninos atraen gran diversidad de discursos culturales relacionados con la salud, la higiene, el honor, el decoro, la belleza, el placer o el éxito sexual. Estos discursos reflejan y refuerzan la estructura social y contribuyen a la socialización de la sexualidad. Las asociaciones que (re)producen cambian en el tiempo y en el espaci...

El presente volumen aporta miradas etnográficas y teórico-metodológicas diversas sobre la salud sexual y reproductiva en América Latina, desde la perspectiva de la antropología médica crítica, con contribuciones originales que contextualizan, problematizan y discuten con el concepto de vulnerabilidad estructural en este campo temático. Dicho concep...

This study explores nursing praxis at an ICU in Greece, and critically discusses the power relations in which the nurses acted as carers and clinical decision makers, as well as the kind of meanings and identities that emerged in the cultural ethos of critical care. Clinical decision making is an important aspect of ICU nursing, and whether nurses...

Explanatory models (EMs) are used in medical anthropology to characterize individual understandings of illness. This study investigated how interdisciplinary clinical interactions elicited caregiver EMs at a pediatric cancer center in Guatemala. This qualitative study included caregivers of 20 children with newly diagnosed cancer at Unidad Nacional...

In the context of the African kinship system, providing care for elderly individuals to ensure their well-being poses intricate challenges and uncertainties. This article delves into the multidimensional nature of elderly care within the traditional African familial structure. Strong familial bonds and a collective approach to caregiving characteri...

The Suhṛdayasaṃhitā is an edited volume dedicated to Dominik Wujastyk that brings together thirteen studies on South Asian intellectual and cultural history from the beginning of the common era to the present day. The multi-disciplinarity and vitality of the academic fields of Indology and South Asian Studies are on full display from chapter to cha...

Rural Disease Knowledge examines the ways in which knowledge of rural spaces and environments, on the one hand, and infectious diseases, on the other, have become inter-constituted since the late nineteenth century. With contributions by leading anthropologists and historians of medicine, it examines the epistemic co-constitution of the rural and o...

Background: Patients are severely affected by Psoriasis, which affects their quality of life. Therefore, this study is focused on determining the life quality of patients who are having Psoriasis and the risk factors involved. Patients and methods: Between January 2023 and October 2024, data were collected from different hospitals in Iraq on a coho...

The practice of soliciting Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) tests for determining kinship values and family relationships is an emerging trend in Africa. This practice has gained popularity in recent years due to advancements in technology and increased awareness about genetic testing. Medical Anthropology provides a unique way to examine the social, cu...

The review presents the international scientific conference “Transformations of Postwar Europe: Medicine, Bodies and Technologies” which was held in Sofia between 27th and 30th May 2024 as part of the project “Taming the European Leviathan: The Legacy of Post-War Medicine and the Common Good” [H2020 ERC- 2019- SyG; GAID: 854503], funded by the Euro...

The paper examines the question of how the patient is framed as an object of diagnostic and medical knowledge, focusing on the phenomenon of ageing. The issue is addressed through a synthetic approach, combining the paradigms of medical anthropology, phenomenological-hermeneutics, and discursive analysis of normative texts. This perspective attempt...

The Helong people in Kupang Regency, NTT Province, have experienced being exposed to cough and tuberculosis (TB). Therefore, it is believed that this community has also long since developed their local knowledge and traditional ways to prevent and treat the disease. In general, this study aims to analyze and find the concept of the Helong Tribe com...

Based on reports from the World Health Organization, this ethnography concerns the concept of tradition/traditional as a quality of contemporary medicine. The discussion focuses on the way in which this term has been mobilized within the context of global health and, not least, on its effects while being instituted as a therapeutic category. From a...

The term “Medically Unexplained Symptoms” (MUS) describes chronic symptoms for which medical investigations fail to reveal a specific pathology or biomarker. Even as MUS are among the most prevalent chronic health problems in the global north, patients who experience them reside in a nebulous space. Such nebulousness is heightened for women patient...

Neste podcast, abordo um tema desafiador no campo da ciência médica: a cura do HIV. O objetivo principal é discutir, a partir de uma abordagem socioantropológica e com uma linguagem acessível, os cinco primeiros casos de “cura” ou “remissão de longo prazo” do HIV. Esses resultados recentes e inéditos na história da medicina foram alcançados por mei...

Surf is probably one of the steadiest-growing sports in the world, maybe because surfing isn?t just about sports or physical activity. It?s about a culture, a newborn tribe, and a collective identity that thrives within the strength of a global outdoor community. This sense of belonging is reinforced by philosophical assumptions besides a political...

Medical anthropology is a growing subfield of anthropology, especially as a subject within health education. Medical anthropology knowledge and skills improve the satisfaction of patients and health professionals, better health outcomes for patients, improve communication, avoid conflicts, or make it possible to deal successfully with these etc. Th...

This retrospective provides a brief history of Christian medical missions as the critical backdrop to understanding how missions in the 19th and 20th centuries paved the way for ethnographic work among non-Western culture groups, as well as provided insights into other cultures’ health and healing practices. Medical missions also brought biomedicin...

Often, it is taken for granted that individual ‘act responsibly’ in their health-related behaviour. However, while minutely observing people’s behaviours and practices, it appears that such seemingly inherent ideas and practices do not always remain valid, and we can see individuals performing at par below rationality. In this article, I examine wh...

A partir de una revisión de un tema extraído del marco teórico de mi tesis de maestría, este artículo busca ofrecer insumos teórico-conceptuales y metodológicos desde la antropología y las ciencias sociales para comprender las experiencias encarnadas y corporizadas de los usuarios y usuarias de la salud mental. La indagación está motivada por el re...

Este artículo, a partir de una revisión de tema devenida del marco teórico construido para mi trabajo tesis de maestría, busca entregar insumos teórico-conceptuales y metodológicos desde la antropología y las ciencias sociales, para la comprensión de las experiencias encarnadas/corporizadas de las/os usuarias/os de la salud mental, en tanto uno de...

The neglected tropical disease (NTD) mycetoma is a chronic and progressively destructive infectious disease endemic in Sudan. There is a growing body of scientific research on mycetoma -causes, transmission, treatment, and impact from a clinical and biomedical perspective. However, there is further need for in-depth medical anthropology research on...

Este artículo explora la transición hacia la salud mental comunitaria en el Perú desde 1980 hasta el 2022. Usando una aproximación desde la antropología médica y ciencias sociales afines, argumentamos que la reforma en salud mental comunitaria en el Perú ha sido influenciada y modelada por múltiples procesos sociohistóricos y políticos como el peri...

ResumoEste artigo pretende incentivar que acadêmicos enviem trabalhos para um simpósio e para a próxima edição especial da Medische Antropologie, que tratará de estudos empíricos sobre questões normativas. Descrevemos a “virada empírica” na ética médica. A ética médica e a bioética em geral testemunharam um movimento da ética aplicada (a aplicação...

¿Por qué utilizar la antropología médica para comprender la salud? ¿Y cuál es el beneficio de participar en la colaboración científica y la formación en investigación? Al colaborar con académicos de otras disciplinas, instituciones y naciones, podemos construir una comprensión más sólida y práctica de los procesos mediante los cuales las personas a...

En la Amazonía peruana, dos asentamientos humanos del distrito de Punchana de la ciudad de Iquitos —Iván Vásquez Valera y 21 de Septiembre— interpusieron una demanda judicial en el año 2016 por falta de agua, desagüe y recolección de residuos sólidos. La población vive desde hace 20 años encima de un canal abierto, en el que se vierten todo tipo de...

Each culture has its understanding of health and the aetiology of diseases and illnesses, and to an extent, it offers an explanation for the prevailing health practices and behaviours. In tribal societies, illnesses and health practices have meanings rooted in the socio-cultural-ecological structure. The critical role that these culturally construc...

In the period of development of science and technology, as in all fields, many reforms and researches are being carried out in the field of anthropology. The study of knowledge related to medicine, folk medicine, various problems arising as a result of various global events occurring in the world is currently the main object of researchers in the f...

Purpose: This study sought to explore the socioeconomic factors contributing to disparities in healthcare access and outcomes. Methodology: The study adopted a desktop research methodology. Desk research refers to secondary data or that which can be collected without fieldwork. Desk research is basically involved in collecting data from existing re...

Diante da incerteza pandêmica e da luta intensifi-cada contra o racismo sistêmico, este artigo argumenta que a antropologia médica é singularmente capaz de refletir sobre o momento que a saúde global vive. Isso é devido ao nosso com-promisso etnográfico e ativista com o corpo plural e com dis-tintas condições humanas, bem como à constante recalibra...

ABSTRACT Introduction: Anthropometry serves as a vital scientific tool for measuring human body dimensions, influenced by various factors including nutrition, psychology, environment, and infections. Ayurvedic and Siddha medical traditions provide unique insights into anthropometry, emphasizing the importance of precise measurements for assessing h...

This review discusses three pieces of work, that is, a conference panel and two books, that deal with the role of research ethics committees (RECs) in regulating biomedical research and medical anthropological research. We summarise the papers and conversations of a panel we convened on this topic during the 2020 European Association for Social Ant...

Editorial for the April issue, 2024.

Introduction In the field of medical anthropology, particularly from the practices of medical care in a situated context, the text discusses how state care services under the “National Child Health Programme” implemented by nursing professionals in Chile transmit values and expectations that could be transformed into devices of acceptance to the so...

Este estudio examina las experiencias de crisis convulsivas entre personas pertenecientes a las etnias tsotsil y tseltal, predominantes en Los Altos de Chiapas. El análisis se basa en sus narraciones, y explora las trayectorias tanto de las personas enfermas como de sus cuidadores cercanos. El estudio identifica que la respuesta de los miembros de...

There is growing awareness of the need to include humanities in educating dental students at the undergraduate/pre-doctoral level (Marti et al., 2019). However, there appears to be no literature discussing or advocating the inclusion of humanities for the training of dental specialists. Dental Public Health (DPH) is one such dental specialty where...

Reseña bibliográfica del libro: Osorio, R. (2020). Problemas actuales de salud en México: Aportes desde la antropología médica. Ciudad de México: Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social.

This article delves into the significance and role of metaphors in shaping knowledge, perceptions, and decisions within the healthcare domain. Through a critical analysis of their impact, particularly in the dynamics between healthcare professionals and patients, three dimensions are proposed for unraveling their significance: the political dimensi...

Resumo: A investigação sobre o corpo tem uma história científica muito particular nos finais do século XIX e inícios do XX. A construção de uma ciência do corpo, para além da busca do objeto, reflete o mundo das ideias e os grandes medos da sociedade ocidental. A comemoração dos 100 anos da Sociedade Portuguesa de Antropologia e Etnologia (SPAE) é...

Medical pluralism, a phenomenon wherein individuals engage with multiple healthcare systems and healing practices, has become an increasingly important area of research within the field of medical anthropology and public health. This research provides an overview of the current state of knowledge in the realm of medical pluralism, highlighting the...

What is perceived today as “living in an unknown moment” with global pandemics and ecological disasters has long become the “new normal” that structures everyday life at the margins of Europe and the Middle East, particularly in places with rising authoritarian regimes. As scholars working in and on Turkey, for instance, we have witnessed or experi...

The notion of impermanence (Pali: anicca, Sanskrit: anitya, Japanese: mujō) is a foundational principle in Buddhist discourse upon which complex metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology have developed over the last two millennia. Impermanence in Buddhism implies that all compounded phenomena are constantly in a state of flux and hence unreliable, un...

This special issue aims to help fill two critical gaps in the growing literature as well as in practice. First, to bring together scholars and practitioners from around the world who develop, practice, review, and question structural competency with the aim of promoting a dialogue with related approaches, such as Latin American Social Medicine, Col...

Objective To comprehend the challenges and emotions within the caregiving process from the perspective of those who care for older adults in situations of frailty within their own homes. Method A qualitative research approach rooted in the theoretical and methodological framework of Interpretative and Medical Anthropology was employed. Nine female...

Objetivo: conhecer as percepções dos pacientes acerca do pós-operatório domiciliar de cirurgia cardíaca. Método: estudo exploratório, descritivo, qualitativo, que empregou como referencial a teoria da antropologia médica, baseada no modelo explicativo de doença de Kleinman. Os participantes foram selecionados por conveniência, e os dados foram cole...

Every culture, irrespective of its simplicity and complexity, has its own beliefs and practices concerning diseases. Every culture evolves its own system of medicine in order to treat diseases in its own way. Northeast India and particularly Assam is a rich zone of ethnic diversity and the Karbis are the early settlers of Karbi Anglong. They can re...

This study examines how the processes of biomedical practices of lung cancer care interact with medical imaginaries and the political economy of hope. In recent times, the prevalence of lung cancer patients has dramatically increased in Bangladesh due to the consumption of tobacco products, air pollution, and infectious diseases. Drawing on a quali...

This is a working introductory module being pilot-tested in public health and medical anthropology courses

O humanismo ainda non ten esgotadas tódalas posibilidades de interpretación e desenrolo. Nin a antiga visión renacentista ou clásica do humanismo nin a máis moderna visión positivista ou científico-técnica encaixan na visión da escola do humanismo médico galego. Neste traballo, tras un breve percorrido polos sentidos do humanismo ao longo da histor...

Background: This comprehensive molecular study investigates the genetic variations in individuals residing at different altitudes in West Saudi Arabia, specifically contrasting sea-level residents in Jeddah (SL) with high-altitude dwellers in Taif (HA). The study focuses on the significant role of genetic adaptations in response to environmental ch...

This work intends to describe the humanitarian response to the cholera epidemic carried out by the international health non-governmental organisation Doctors with Africa CUAMM in the provinces of Zambezia, Sofala and Tete in Mozambique. The knowledge and practices of applied medical anthropology have proved to be fundamental in the management of pr...

Introduction Preservation of the facial nerve is of great importance in temporal bone surgeries. We intend to investigate the measurements of the radioanatomical factors related to the position of the facial nerve in accessing jugular foramen and internal carotid artery (ICA) in temporal bone of patients who were candidates for temporal high resolu...

Some information about medical anthropology and the importance of working against discrimination in healthcare in Austria.

Purpose: The objective of this paper is to devise a comprehensive and layered framework to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). It aims to weave together the strands of ethnomedicine, healthcare system analysis, and anthropological perspectives on illness, aligning with universal healthcare principles to encourage community participation and addr...

The present article describes historic evolution conception process of an intercultural medicinal plant garden as a tool to construct social ecoperception about environmental health and cultural diversity, to improve environmental ethics. Through case study methodology it reports the process along five years. Hybrid Learning of Homeopathy, Phytothe...

Huang Di Nei Jing (《黄帝内经》 The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic ) has been the source text of Chinese medicine knowledge and innovation for over two thousand years. Despite this key relevance, many of its ideas and practices have proven difficult to understand and implement fully into clinical practice. Cultural and language differences can be compoun...

The primary goal/objective of this study is to analyze the effects of the cultural construction of masculinity on the health / disease (suffering) / care processes of youth socialized as men. The research aims to provide useful knowledge for rethinking the ways in which excessive mental suffering is accompanied, intervened and treated in the medica...

It has been a tradition among the Sri Lankan people since ancient times to make offerings to Goddess Pattini to seek blessings for good health. Navagamuwa Pattini Dewala is known as a miraculous dewala with historical stories about Goddess Pattini. The ‘Gon pita Perahera’ festival at Navagamuwa Pattini Dewalaya is the focus of this study’s medical...

In this article, an attempt was made to reveal that "medicine" is an integral part of the national culture, reflects people's empirical experiences, and that the importance of people's needs and knowledge gained as a result of daily training is important in the creation of "medicine". Medicine has been developing since time immemorial as a result o...

Public Health Science and Medical Anthropology both approach the topic of population health, or public health, each from the positions of their respective scientific research discourses. Although different, these scientific positions can and do complement each other. Medical anthropology introduces a holistic approach to public health topics, while...

Resumen: La formación del campo de la antropología de la salud (o antropología médica) en Chile es paralela al desarrollo de la disciplina en el país. Actualmente observamos la consolidación de distintos temas y el surgimiento de nuevos diálogos y desafíos. El artículo reflexiona sobre el pasado, el presente y el futuro del campo, y propone una car...

A recent trend in public health campaigns has been to include non-human health data to capture all relevant variables related to human well-being. This specific approach is the foundation of the World Health Organization restructuring in the early 2000s as they adopted the “one health” framework. Politically, this movement is influential and draws...

This article is a plain writing summary of a master’s thesis researched and written in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan between 2020-2023. This thesis examined how eighteen queer people living in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan made their reproductive decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic by asking what mean...

O objetivo deste estudo é compreender a diversidade dos sistemas de cura e suas relações com o cuidado de enfermagem. Trata-se de um estudo teórico, narrativo, que recorre à literatura nas áreas de antropologia e enfermagem transcultural na construção de um itinerário argumentativo em torno de como a enfermagem pode se posicionar diante dos variado...

Beginning with how women know about the particular condition of having pelvic organ prolapse, this article examines what women do when they know about this medical condition. The paper specifically addresses the customary management of this health problem by women. In the process, it also clarifies how people come to possess this knowledge. It also...

Despite its ubiquitous desirability, differences and discrepancies prevail in health. Dissimilarity and inconsistency in health is largely shaped by social determinants of health. Variations in the situation of health are influenced by societal structure or due to the differential experience in life course of people. This paper approaches social de...

Se muestra una revisión de investigaciones sobre adicciones. Se consideró especialmente la producción de literatura latinoamericana, donde las adicciones son abordadas desde perspectivas teórico-metodológicas que incluyen análisis provenientes de: ciencias sociales de la religión; etnografías sobre drogas; antropología médica. Particularmente, se p...

Anthropologists and other social scientists have long observed that theories of disease, as well as diseases themselves, show considerable cross-cultural variation. This study builds on previous work in medical anthropology by taking a critical look at illness experiences across diverse cultural contexts in an attempt to find underlying similaritie...

[Extraído de la Introducción] El libro reúne cinco ensayos que profundizan, desde una perspectiva antropológica, en las aflicciones humanas, los saberes «psi», los problemas de atención y las políticas o regímenes de existencia. Mi perspectiva se ubica en el campo de la investigación social y, en particular, en la antropología médica crítica. La el...

Previous studies on medical clowning focused on patients, while research remains inadequate concerning clowning itself: training programmes and prerequisite requirements, clowning methods, deontology and accepted practices. Diverse approaches and paradigms in this field of complementary medicine are promoted by non-profit organisations worldwide. B...

Much innovation has taken place in the development of medical schools and licensure exam processes across the African continent. Still, little attention has been paid to education that enables the multidisciplinary, critical thinking needed to understand and help shape the larger social systems in which health care is delivered. Although more than...

Medical anthropology attempts to analyse the relationship between health and disease in a cultural context, through studies on health issues, such as the development and diagnosis of the disease, the pattern of its spread, the way individuals interpret and treat it, as part of the study and analysis of the components of the cultural patterns of hum...

The paper “Searching for a Lost Cow” presents the ethical dilemmas of doing medical anthropological research in specially rural areas in Bangladesh. The authors argue that following the Euro-American framework for research with human subjects may be completely out of place in a context where respondents are extremely poor and have no institutional...

Sri Lanka has a rich history of traditional medicine and healing practices that have been passed down through generations. These practices often involve a combination of herbal remedies, rituals, and cultural beliefs. The Sri Lankan villagers believe that epidemics that occur from time to time are diseases caused by God. This is why epidemics are c...

The history of the words inherited from Latin and Greek shows how various semantic fields and classes of lexemes have ensured the unity of the Romance languages. Among them are the anatomical terms referring to body parts, organs, and functions. However, a "mysterious" organ (Haque, A. 2006) has had separate and sinuous evolutions and a surprising...

The development of the field of anthropology of health (or medical anthropology) in Chile has taken similar pathways as local social anthropology. We can currently observe the consolidation of different topics and the development of new dialogues and issues. The article reflects on the field’s past, present, and future directions, putting forward a...

Traditional Knowledge Systems (TKS) in Indigenous communities worldwide shape lifestyle and eating habits, with a focus on the thermostatic properties of food and balance in the body. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Ayurveda are examples of TKS that emphasize individualized diets based on factors such as age, season, and constitution. In Ind...

Este artículo aborda el tema del estrés laboral desde una perspectiva antropológica y sociocultural en el campo de la biomedicina. El estrés, tanto en el pensamiento común como en el de los profesionales de la salud, se ha caracterizado como molestias físicas y emocionales causadas por preocupaciones, miedos, ansiedades y angustias. Los investigado...

Behavioural and social sciences (BSS) are a core component of undergraduate medical education in the United Kingdom. Despite the formal recognition of BSS by the UK’s General Medical Council (GMC), anthropology remains largely at the periphery in the medical curriculum. Medical students often describe it as ‘fluffy’ or as ‘common sense’, in compari...

There is a growing recognition of the benefits of collaborating with people with lived experience (PWLE) of mental health conditions in mental health research and implementation of services. Such collaboration has been effective in reducing mental health stigma and improving the quality of mental health care. Here, we describe using PhotoVoice as a...

Este artículo presenta un estudio de caso de una mujer que emigró de la selva brasileña a Barcelona hace diecisiete años, y su camino para convertirse en una curandera que trabaja con ayahuasca, kambó (veneno de rana) y sananga (colirio herbal). Se discuten las nociones de autenticidad, communitas y autoatención. Sostenemos que el chamanismo, la re...

Macro- and micro-political abuse of psychiatry is the use of psychiatric diagnosis, of detention, of coercion, of administration of psychotropic drugs and electroshocks without informed consent or with misinformation about treatment risks inclusively risks of dependence on psychotropic drugs, and withholding of support in their withdrawal for the p...

Sayendri Panchadhyayi reflects on a journey of waiting for recovery from a rare health condition, considering questions of selfhood and fractured time, provoked by the experience of malady. Timelines and the hourglass May 25, 2023 For the last few months Mira (pseudonymised) has been experiencing a numbness and tingling sensation-vernacularly refer...

Syndemic Theory is a relatively new theory developed first within the field of medical anthropology and later adopted by social epidemiology and public health. The term “syndemic” stands for “synergistic epidemics” where two or more health (related) problems (1) co-occur and (2) synergistically interact with each other (3) within a specific socioen...

En algunos países como Estados Unidos para los siguientes meses se ha anunciado el fin de la pandemia por COVID-19. En poblaciones semiurbanas de México se ha pasado de la incertidumbre, el horror y el miedo, al ánimo esperanzador. Seguimos viviendo y contando las historias que nos calificaron en su momento; acontecimientos desgarradores que provoc...

Chronic kidney disease of non-traditional cause (CKDnt) is commonly associated with monocropping agriculture, heat stress and impoverished working conditions, referred to as CKDnt "hotspots." The condition is also emerging in various sites of environmental contamination, raising questions as to whether multiple variants of the condition exist as a...

This is an excerpt from a record of a bioart residency in the transgenic mouse production facility at i3S, University Porto, Porto, Portugal, EU 2022: Art/sci research-creation, field notes and bioart from the i3S transgenic mouse production facility. The transgenic mouse production facility at i3S is an animal facility that breeds specific transge...

So far, the twenty-first century has been a boom time for studies of health, illness, healing, and care work in Africa, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only increased attention to these issues. Yet again, current events remind us that history, politics, social relationships, and public health are inextricably linked. These five books encompass a rang...

In the modern theory and practice of medical sciences, one can observe the proximity of various types of rationality, which determine both the direction and quality of thinking. This is due both to the heterogeneity of the development of various areas of medical culture and clinical thinking. This determines the relevance and expediency of the stud...

The COVID-19 pandemic was not the first incident to show how closely connected health issues are to global contexts and social inequalities. This brief article shows how medical anthropologists examine these connections in an increasingly globalised world.

Syrian rue (Peganum harmala L.) in Central Asian traditions and its popularity in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: perspective of medical anthropology Syrian rue (Peganum harmala L.) has been traditionally used in Central Asia for medical purposes, e.g. for treating skin diseases, joint pain, sore throat and cough. It is also applied as an apotro...