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Applied medical anthropology
Health programmes succeed or fail in the details of daily life: who fetches the water, how the dead are mourned, whom patients trust. Applied medical anthropologists bring that knowledge to clinics, epidemics and health policy, working alongside communities rather than prescribing to them.
In this topic
- Putting research to work
- Worked example: boiling water in Los Molinos
- Ebola and the care of the dead
- Worked example: designing a dignified burial
- Partners In Health
- Birth and authoritative knowledge
- Racism and maternal health
- Cultural concepts of distress
- From competence to humility
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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