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• Textadolescenceeating disorders...1 more

  Toward a more comprehensive medical anthropology: The case of adolescent psychopathology

  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.
• Texthealth praxismedical anthropology

  Beyond the ivory tower: Critical praxis in medical anthropology

  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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  Farewell to adaptationism: Unnatural selection and the politics of biology

  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 global social processes.
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  Conceptions of tuberculosis and therapeutic choices in Highland Chiapas, Mexico

  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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  Cross-cultural healing in East African Ethnography

  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.
• Textmedical anthropologymedical discourse

  Explaining a complex disease process: Talking to patients about Hansen's disease (leprosy) in Brazil

  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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  "Fewer children, better life" or "As many as god wants"?: Family planning among low-income Iranian and Afghan refugee families in Isfahan, Iran

  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.