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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"critical medical anthropology"”.
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"Just Take It Off the Plate": a Syndemic Model of Low Breastfeeding Rates and Maternal Stress in South Alabama
… in South Alabama's gulf coast. Using a critical medical anthropology lens, we conducted semi-structured interviews with professionals/providers (n=10) and birth-givers/families (n=10) about how providing services in a multiple disaster context has shaped their perceptions of infant …
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Houston Midwives and Public Health Policies: How Their Fight Can Help Us All
… that don’t share their vision. Using critical medical anthropology, I focus on how this discord affects women’s health and is damaging to society when representatives pass over bills that would grant midwives authority as primary birth care providers. The experiences shared with me …
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Cultivating School Food Community: An Ethnography on Nutritional Wellbeing in a Calgary Public School
… in the school food environment (SFE). Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA) considers the social, political, economic, and environmental factors that interact with the body to impact overall health and may help shed light on why young people continue to consume LNVFs in school. CMA is …
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Towards an anthropology of childhood sickness : an ethnographic study of Danish schoolchildren
… two theoretical frameworks: first, a reformed anthropology of children; second, critical medical anthropology, in particular the notion of sickness as cultural performance. The study focuses on children as individual and collective actors in interaction with other children and with adults …
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Cultivating Reproductive Citizens: State And Fertility Practices In Turkey
… family size in Turkey. This work is steeped in a critical medical anthropology tradition and contributes to the empirical investigation of Foucaultian concepts of biopower and subjectification. I conducted 22 months of fieldwork in urban Ankara, including participant observation at the United …
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The Politics of Affliction: Crisis, the State, and the Coloniality of Maternal Death in Bolivia
… a theoretical context of political economy and critical medical anthropology, I look at these dual subjects--the state and the indigenous citizen--in counterpoint with competing notions of birth, death, affliction, and the role of civil society, as perceived within a climate of unexpected crisis …
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Hand-washing and its impact on child health in Kathmandu, Nepal
… and theoretically informed by insights from Critical Medical Anthropology, this study used a mixed-method, longitudinal approach in order to investigate this question. Eighty-eight children aged 3-12 months were recruited from eight slum communities in Kathmandu, Nepal. Each community was …