“…CMA provides a framework for understanding health and illness through a critical lens that incorporates attention to political and economic structures into understandings of power, inequality, and health (Singer & Baer 1995Panter-Brick & Eggerman, 2018). Global theories of social structure inform the development and ongoing use of CMA (Sesia et al, 2020). The interplay between institutional processes and lived experience is a key subject of analysis, including investigations of how political and economic processes impact inequality, perceptions, and practices of the body (Sharp, 2000;Kleinman et al, 1997;Scheper-Hughes & Lock, 1987), illness, health, and social suffering (Kleinman et al, 1997).…”