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Theoretical Approaches and Key Concepts in Medical Anthropology
Full text linkThe theoretical views and ideas offered in the following pages – which are quite long in order to offer a through explanation of the vast and diverse medical and anthropological literature we have available – regard specific concepts and paradigms that will be useful in order to create a solid framework for the ethnographic material we have gathered
Il contributo della prospettiva antropologica alla cooperazione sanitaria in contesti di pluralismo medico
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Forme nuove e creazioni originali: la natura dipendente della persona in una comunità nahua del Messico
No full textCurare plurale: conflitto o integrazione? Categorie diagnostiche e conoscenze mediche in una comunità nahua della Sierra Norte di Puebla
No full textLa ricerca svolta presso la comunità nahua del Municipio di Naupan, situato nel Nord Est della Sierra di Puebla, ha avuto l’intento di tracciare un prospettiva in cui valutare i processi di cambiamento nell’ambito della medicina locale suscitati dall’acculturazione secondo i modelli biomedici(1). Si tratta di processi attraverso cui gli elementi costitutivi della tradizione locale variano, incorporando nuove categorie diagnostiche, nuove strategie retoriche e terapeutiche, e si vengono così a mescolare con diversi linguaggi e simboli
Health equity? Social exclusion and psychological suffering within a housing assistance program in Rome, Italy
No full textThis book by Silvia Iorio takes the reader on interesting journey, towards those crossroads between anthropology and psychiatry. She deals with specific phenomena regarding the mental health of a population living within low‐income and assisted housing in the city of Rome, Italy. As we turn the pages of her work we begin to understand the psychiatrist’s in‐ terpretations and goals, which would be hard to ignore for a true anthro‐ pologist. There is a constant and continuous debate on numerous aspects, from various viewpoints that are constantly changing – a fundamental rule for this type of work
IN AN ELSEWHERE. A history of medical paradigms and concepts
No full textThe history of medical conceptualisations is, at the same time, a history of ideas of health and illness/sickness/pathology, a history of healing practices, a history of religion, a history of places used to achieve healing. The study of oral medical knowledge in the Nahua context (Mexico) offers a broad and articulated perspective of investigation that allows us to understand how different medical paradigms relate to the themes of bodily and social suffering and to healing ideas and practice
The “idiot microcephalic” Battista. Reading of the anthropological and neuropsychiatric diagnosis published in 1912
Full text linkPresentiamo un caso di diagnosi psichiatrica e antropologica di microcefalia pubblicato nel 1912
sulla Rivista Sperimentale di Freniatria e Medicina Legale delle Alienazioni Mentali. Il documento rivela la prospettiva delle scienze neurologiche dell’epoca, nella quale si fondono i contributi dell’Antropologia e della Frenologia – in particolare dell’analisi antropometrica – nello studio delle “anomalie mentali”.We present a case of psychiatric and anthropological diagnosis of microcephaly published in 1912 in the Journal of Experimental Phreniatry and Forensic Medicine of Mental Alienations (Rivista Sperimentale di Freniatria e Medicina Legale delle Alienazioni Mentali). From the reading of this publication, we analyse the point of view of the neurological sciences of that time. We also highlight how the contribution of Anthropology and Phreniatry was important for the study of “mental anomalies” when anthropometry was considered a scientific approach to evaluate mental abnormalities.Presentamos un caso de diagnóstico psiquiátrico y antropológico de microcefalia publicado en
1912 en el Journal of Experimental Phreniatry and Forensic Medicine of Mental Alienations (Revista Experimental de Freniatría y Medicina Forense de Alienaciones Mentales). A partir de la lectura de este aporte se analiza el punto de vista de las ciencias neurológicas de la época y se destaca cómo el aporte de la Antropología y Frenología fue importante para el estudio de las “anomalías mentales” cuando la antropometría se consideraba un enfoque científico
History of medicine in medical education. New Italian pathways
Full text linkObjective: There is little doubt that there are currently obstacles in measuring the impact of the history of medicine within medical training. Consequently, there is a clear need to support a vision that can historicize Euro-Western medicine, leading to a greater understanding of how the medical world is a distinct form of reality for those who are about to immerse themselves in the study of medicine.Methods: History teaches that changes in medicine are due to the processes inherent to the interaction among individuals, institutions, and society rather than individual facts or individual authors.Results: Therefore, we cannot ignore the fact that the expertise and know-how developed during medical training are the final product of relationships and memories that have a historical life that is based social, economic, and political aspects.Conclusion: Moreover, these relationships and memories have undergone dynamic processes of selection and attribution of meaning, as well as individual and collective sharing, which have also been confronted with archetypes that are still able to influence clinical approaches and medical therapy today
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