Antropologia medyczna dzisiaj. Zarys problematyki i perspektywy teoretyczne

• Authors: Izabella Main , Anna Witeska-Młynarczyk

Title variants

EN

Medical Anthropology Today. An Outline of the Field and Research Perspectives

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article introduces contemporary medical anthropology. It describes the key concepts used by anthropologists to analyse practices related to health, sickness and healing. It examines the main approaches (interpretative approach, critical approach and cultural phenomenology) and follows the methodological trend of combining micro and macro levels in one analysis. The authors show both academic and applied aspects of the young subdiscipline. They examine contemporarily researched topics like: global health, medical tourism, medical trials or new medical technologies. They sketch a picture of an important and dynamically evolving area of anthropological research.

Keywords

EN

medical anthropology; medicalisation; medical pluralism; pharmaceuticals; biomedical technologies; medical tourism; global health

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze
• Journal: Lud
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 97
• Pages: 87-109

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Izabella Main

• Instytut Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

author

Anna Witeska-Młynarczyk

• Instytut Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

Identifiers

ISSN

0076-1435