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Argues for a more comprehensive analytical approach in medical anthropology than is currently followed, one that combines attention to structural factors, experiential/symbolic expressions and meanings, and biological/bodily features of disorders.

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Argues for the possibility of an applied critical medical anthropology, suggests concrete opportunities for such work in health settings, and identifies problems and social conditions that affect the development of a critical health praxis.

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Argues that human adaptation has lost its utility as a conceptual too for either biological or medical anthropology, despite the recent efforts of practitioners in these subdisciplines to rescue it by considering the influences of power, history, and…

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Presents the views on tuberculosis and health-seeking activities of several patients in the Tzeltal hamlet of Yochib.
Focuses on the cultural factors that includes patients' medical choices, curing regimens.

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A focus on the dynamics and ideology of cross-cultural healing may be crucial for an understanding of processes generated by the encounter between biomedicine and African traditional medical systems.

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The ways in which people who are affected by Hansen's disease in Rio de Janeiro learn about different aspects of their illness and its treatment from health care professionals.

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The attention is given to different interpretations of Islam may or may not influence reproductive health-related behaviors and how cultural factors influence reproductive strategies.

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