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Disrupting medical anthropology: Views from Kenya and Cameroon on how to build a more inclusive discipline by Moïse Mvetumbo

Medical anthropologists often strive to disrupt typical public health and medical discourses, in part by questioning the broader applicability of individualized psychological concepts and biomedical …

Post date 23rd December 2020
Post author By Moïse Mvetumbo
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Introduction: Working Definitions: Making and Unmaking “Medical Anthropology” around the World by Elizabeth Durham

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Anthropology’s interest in health, illness, prevention, and treatment is longstanding and increasingly robust. In this era of medical development, epidemics and pandemics, and debates in both the oft…

Post date 16th December 2020
Post author By Elizabeth Durham
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Working Definitions: Making and Unmaking “Medical Anthropology” around the World by Paschal Kum Awah

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Somatosphere Special Series – Call for Contributions Editors: Professor Paschal Kum Awah (Chair, Anthropology, University of Yaoundé I) and Elizabeth Durham (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Pri…

Post date 25th June 2020
Post author By Paschal Kum Awah
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