Healing the modern in a Central Javanese city
In: Ethnographic studies in medical anthropology series
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In: Ethnographic studies in medical anthropology series
In: Annual review of anthropology, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 411-426
ISSN: 1545-4290
Diabetes and its many manifestations articulate well with the four-field approach in anthropology, providing an almost seamless example of the relationship between human biology, behavior, society, and culture in both the past and the present tense. In general, publications on diabetes and culture echo Enlightenment philosophies on change and progress that posit the increasing prevalence of diabetes as a "crisis in human relations" ( Bendix 1967 , p. 302) for which culture plays a significant role. The undermining of racial approaches due to what now appears to be diabetes-without-borders has also directed anthropological research into the contingent temporal frameworks of history. The recent attention to society and the social production of the disease may portend the end of culture in research on diabetes and culture.
In: The senses & society, Band 1, Heft 3, S. 331-358
ISSN: 1745-8927
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 267-268
ISSN: 1467-9655
In: Studies in Medical Anthropology
Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings. To date, much of the social as well as biomedical research has treated the experience of illness and the challenges of disease control and management as segmented and episodic. Breaking new ground in medical anthropology by challenging the chronic/acute divide in illness and disease, the editors, along with a group of rising scholars and some of the most influential minds in the field, address the concept of chronicity, an idea used to explain individual and local life-worlds, question public health discourse, and consider the relationship between health and the globalizing forces that shape it