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Nature cure and public health: illness narratives, medical efficacy, and existential suffering. 自然疗法和公共卫生:疾病叙事，医疗功效，和存在的痛苦。

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2022.2106412

Joseph S Alter

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The work of reform: a critical examination of health policy. 改革工作:对卫生政策的批判性审查。

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2022.2144805

Na'amah Razon, Alissa Bernstein Sideman

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Latinx immigrant experiences with chronic illness management in Central Texas: reframing agency and liminality through nepantla. 德州中部拉丁移民的慢性病管理经验:透过nepantla重新建构代理与限制。

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2022.2144803

Scott J Spivey Provencio

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Apophatic love, contagion, and surveillance: Orthodox Christian responses to the global pandemic. 冷漠的爱、传染和监视:东正教对全球大流行的反应。

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2022.2080180

Timothy Carroll, Nicholas Lackenby, Jenia Gorbanenko

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Good enough mothers: practicing nurture and motherhood in Chiapas, Mexico 足够好的母亲:在墨西哥恰帕斯州实践养育和母性

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2022.2075321

Rosamund Greiner

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'COVID containers' in pandemic mediascapes: discursive economies of health, bodies, and race in North America. 大流行媒体背景下的“COVID容器”:北美健康、身体和种族的话语经济

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Epub Date: 2021-12-21 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2021.2012997

Crystal Cal Biruk

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Ethnography and medicine: the utility of positivist methods in research. 民族志与医学:实证主义方法在研究中的应用。

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Epub Date: 2021-09-15 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2021.1893657

C M Hayre, S Blackman, P M W Hackett, D Muller, J Sim

{"title":"Ethnography and medicine: the utility of positivist methods in research.","authors":"C M Hayre, S Blackman, P M W Hackett, D Muller, J Sim","doi":"10.1080/13648470.2021.1893657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2021.1893657","url":null,"abstract":"This commentary discusses the methodological utility of ethnography within the medical space. Whilst a general consensus affirms that ethnography aligns with qualitative approaches, as identified within the existing medical literature, here, we demonstrate how quantitative [positivist] methods can also be incorporated. This paper begins by contextualising ethnographic approaches within medical contexts by demonstrating its empirical value within the existing literature. Next, we discuss the interconnection between the practice of 'doctoring' and ethnographic research, whereby doctors themselves use forms of inductive and deductive reasoning to treat and manage patients in their everyday context. This philosophical discussion not only links to the everyday practice of medical practitioners, but also critically reflects on the role of the first author, as a diagnostic radiographer. Lastly, this paper identifies the virtues of ethnographic research for medical students and/or medical doctors whereby the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods (within an ethnographic methodology) can lead to new empirical and methodological insights, enabling the creation of alternate research strategies and evidence. This methodological strategy may be best considered amongst medical students and/or early career medical researchers, but we also anticipate it to resonate and open further discussion with experienced medical practitioners and researchers transnationally.","PeriodicalId":8240,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Medicine","volume":"29 3","pages":"338-344"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39418442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Existential vulnerability: an ethnographic study of everyday lives with diabetes in Vietnam. 存在脆弱性:越南糖尿病患者日常生活的民族志研究。

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Epub Date: 2021-11-30 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2021.1994334

Tine M Gammeltoft, Bùi Thị Huyền Diệu, Vũ Thị Kim Dung, Vũ Đức Anh, Lê Minh Hiếu, Nguyễn Thị Ái

引用次数: 5

Pleasure, womanhood and the desire for reconstructive surgery after female genital cutting in Belgium. 比利时女性生殖器切割后的愉悦、女性气质和对重建手术的渴望。

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Epub Date: 2021-11-29 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2021.1994332

Sarah O'Neill, Fabienne Richard, Cendrine Vanderhoven, Martin Caillet

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引用次数: 7

Pulsing bodies and embodying pulse: musical effervescence in a South African HIV/AIDS community outreach program. 跳动的身体和体现的脉搏:南非艾滋病毒/艾滋病社区外展计划的音乐沸腾。

IF 1.8 4区社会学

Anthropology & Medicine Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Epub Date: 2021-12-16 DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2021.1994335

Gavin Robert Walker

引用次数: 2