Anthropology › Section Q · Medical anthropology › Topic Q.3
Theories and methods in medical anthropology
Medical anthropologists sit in clinics and at healing rituals, record patients' stories, measure blood pressure and read hospital statistics. This topic shows the methods they combine and the main theories that tell them what to look for: biocultural, ecological, symbolic and critical.
In this topic
- Relativism without indifference
- Listening to illness
- Worked example: an explanatory model interview
- How people choose treatment
- Measuring bodies and patterns
- Worked example: reading consonance data
- Biocultural and ecological theories
- Symbolic and interpretive theories
- Critical medical anthropology
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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