Critical medical anthropology in question

Critical Medical Anthropology: Perspectives in and from Latin America

“…Pharmaceutical involvement with a political economy of health invites a critical medical anthropology (CMA) framework of analysis (Singer et al 1990). CMA critically examines how the structural relationship between class, wealth and power affects people's health (Joralemon 2010), or the relationship between 'health and wealth'.…”

“…xx PREFACE Nevertheless, medicalisation remains among the most reported dangers by CMA. At least since the 1970s, US and European anthropologists and sociologists (Conrad and Schneider 1980;Conrad 1992) have been concerned about not only the medicalisation of behaviours, but also the increasing medicalisation of medical anthropology itself (Baer 1990;Morgan 1990;Singer 1989), as is also occurring in Latin America (Menéndez 2013). This is an extremely disquieting issue for Latin America, not only because it seems to be on the rise, but also because medicalisation reduces the potential for contributions from socio-anthropological perspectives, since the results generated through medicalisation are almost identical to those of biomedicine.…”

“…In contrast, CMA as a discipline of its own originated in the late 1980s in Anglo-American academia to account for a Marxist and, at times, practice-oriented perspective Morgan 1987;Singer 1986Singer , 1990Singer et al 1990). Anglophone CMA evolved as an alternative to what was considered mainstream medical anthropology.…”

Critical Medical Anthropology: Perspectives in and from Latin America

“…Pharmaceutical involvement with a political economy of health invites a critical medical anthropology (CMA) framework of analysis (Singer et al 1990). CMA critically examines how the structural relationship between class, wealth and power affects people's health (Joralemon 2010), or the relationship between 'health and wealth'.…”

“…xx PREFACE Nevertheless, medicalisation remains among the most reported dangers by CMA. At least since the 1970s, US and European anthropologists and sociologists (Conrad and Schneider 1980;Conrad 1992) have been concerned about not only the medicalisation of behaviours, but also the increasing medicalisation of medical anthropology itself (Baer 1990;Morgan 1990;Singer 1989), as is also occurring in Latin America (Menéndez 2013). This is an extremely disquieting issue for Latin America, not only because it seems to be on the rise, but also because medicalisation reduces the potential for contributions from socio-anthropological perspectives, since the results generated through medicalisation are almost identical to those of biomedicine.…”

“…In contrast, CMA as a discipline of its own originated in the late 1980s in Anglo-American academia to account for a Marxist and, at times, practice-oriented perspective Morgan 1987;Singer 1986Singer , 1990Singer et al 1990). Anglophone CMA evolved as an alternative to what was considered mainstream medical anthropology.…”

Ukrainian families’ transnational living and perception of Germany’s health care system in times of war

“…(…) all this will end one day and we will return." The illustrated aspects are known to in uence the health (care) and physical as well as mental well-being of an individual [18][19][20]. Furthermore, they are part of the UN convention [7].…”

Critical Medical Anthropology

“…Nevertheless, medicalisation remains among the most reported dangers by CMA. At least since the 1970s, US and European anthropologists and sociologists (Conrad and Schneider 1980;Conrad 1992) have been concerned about not only the medicalisation of behaviours, but also the increasing medicalisation of medical anthropology itself (Baer 1990;Morgan 1990;Singer 1989), as is also occurring in Latin America (Menéndez 2013). This is an extremely disquieting issue for Latin America, not only because it seems to be on the rise, but also because medicalisation reduces the potential for contributions from socio-anthropological perspectives, since the results generated through medicalisation are almost identical to those of biomedicine.…”

Critical Medical Anthropology: Perspectives in and from Latin America

“…Pharmaceutical involvement with a political economy of health invites a critical medical anthropology (CMA) framework of analysis (Singer et al 1990). CMA critically examines how the structural relationship between class, wealth and power affects people's health (Joralemon 2010), or the relationship between 'health and wealth'.…”

“…xx PREFACE Nevertheless, medicalisation remains among the most reported dangers by CMA. At least since the 1970s, US and European anthropologists and sociologists (Conrad and Schneider 1980;Conrad 1992) have been concerned about not only the medicalisation of behaviours, but also the increasing medicalisation of medical anthropology itself (Baer 1990;Morgan 1990;Singer 1989), as is also occurring in Latin America (Menéndez 2013). This is an extremely disquieting issue for Latin America, not only because it seems to be on the rise, but also because medicalisation reduces the potential for contributions from socio-anthropological perspectives, since the results generated through medicalisation are almost identical to those of biomedicine.…”

“…In contrast, CMA as a discipline of its own originated in the late 1980s in Anglo-American academia to account for a Marxist and, at times, practice-oriented perspective Morgan 1987;Singer 1986Singer , 1990Singer et al 1990). Anglophone CMA evolved as an alternative to what was considered mainstream medical anthropology.…”

Ukrainian families’ transnational living and perception of Germany’s health care system in times of war

“…(…) all this will end one day and we will return." The illustrated aspects are known to in uence the health (care) and physical as well as mental well-being of an individual [18][19][20]. Furthermore, they are part of the UN convention [7].…”

Critical Medical Anthropology

“…Nevertheless, medicalisation remains among the most reported dangers by CMA. At least since the 1970s, US and European anthropologists and sociologists (Conrad and Schneider 1980;Conrad 1992) have been concerned about not only the medicalisation of behaviours, but also the increasing medicalisation of medical anthropology itself (Baer 1990;Morgan 1990;Singer 1989), as is also occurring in Latin America (Menéndez 2013). This is an extremely disquieting issue for Latin America, not only because it seems to be on the rise, but also because medicalisation reduces the potential for contributions from socio-anthropological perspectives, since the results generated through medicalisation are almost identical to those of biomedicine.…”

Critical Medical Anthropology: Perspectives in and from Latin America

“…Pharmaceutical involvement with a political economy of health invites a critical medical anthropology (CMA) framework of analysis (Singer et al 1990). CMA critically examines how the structural relationship between class, wealth and power affects people's health (Joralemon 2010), or the relationship between 'health and wealth'.…”

“…xx PREFACE Nevertheless, medicalisation remains among the most reported dangers by CMA. At least since the 1970s, US and European anthropologists and sociologists (Conrad and Schneider 1980;Conrad 1992) have been concerned about not only the medicalisation of behaviours, but also the increasing medicalisation of medical anthropology itself (Baer 1990;Morgan 1990;Singer 1989), as is also occurring in Latin America (Menéndez 2013). This is an extremely disquieting issue for Latin America, not only because it seems to be on the rise, but also because medicalisation reduces the potential for contributions from socio-anthropological perspectives, since the results generated through medicalisation are almost identical to those of biomedicine.…”

“…In contrast, CMA as a discipline of its own originated in the late 1980s in Anglo-American academia to account for a Marxist and, at times, practice-oriented perspective Morgan 1987;Singer 1986Singer , 1990Singer et al 1990). Anglophone CMA evolved as an alternative to what was considered mainstream medical anthropology.…”

Ukrainian families’ transnational living and perception of Germany’s health care system in times of war

“…(…) all this will end one day and we will return." The illustrated aspects are known to in uence the health (care) and physical as well as mental well-being of an individual [18][19][20]. Furthermore, they are part of the UN convention [7].…”

Critical Medical Anthropology

“…Nevertheless, medicalisation remains among the most reported dangers by CMA. At least since the 1970s, US and European anthropologists and sociologists (Conrad and Schneider 1980;Conrad 1992) have been concerned about not only the medicalisation of behaviours, but also the increasing medicalisation of medical anthropology itself (Baer 1990;Morgan 1990;Singer 1989), as is also occurring in Latin America (Menéndez 2013). This is an extremely disquieting issue for Latin America, not only because it seems to be on the rise, but also because medicalisation reduces the potential for contributions from socio-anthropological perspectives, since the results generated through medicalisation are almost identical to those of biomedicine.…”