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The Anthropology of Illness and Health.
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ANT 2002: The Anthropology of Illness and Health Anthropological perspectives and their research approaches are particularly able to contribute to the understanding of human health and illness Anthropological perspectives and anthropological research approaches are particularly able to contribute to the understanding of human health and illness. This essay seeks to present the major anthropological perspectives used by modern medical anthropologists and the approaches they use to study health and illness. Anthropological research methods are able to examine a society's beliefs and practices regarding health and illness and examine the relationships and roles of health practitioners, methodologies of healing, and health systems. The diverse discipline that is anthropology is well placed to critically analyse a society's health systems as medical anthropologists are not generally stake holders in the health system. This affords medical anthropologists an opportunity to contribute to the understanding of a wide range of factors that enhance health or contribute...
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