Critical Medical Anthropology

Singer, Merrill; Baer, Hans A.

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“…Booth/Buchwald/Oxford (1R01-NR014153–01) are utilizing Bowlby’s Attachment Theory (Bowlby, 1969) to guide intervention development in understanding the experience and reactions of infants and children exposed to stress, adverse events, and trauma. To understand the factors affecting tobacco use among AIs, Choi (1R01-CA174481–01) utilizes Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA; Singer and Baer, 1995) as an overarching organizing perspective. CMA calls for the integrated study of the political-economic framework and cultural meaning of tobacco.…”

Section: Gathering the Medicine (Results)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Encompassing Cultural Contexts Within Scientific Research Methodologies in the Development of Health Promotion Interventions

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American Indians/Alaska Natives/Native Hawaiians (AI/AN/NHs) disproportionately experience higher rates of various health conditions. Developing culturally centered interventions targeting health conditions is a strategy to decrease the burden of health conditions among this population. This study analyzes characteristics from 21 studies currently funded under the Interventions for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Native American (NA) Populations program among investigators currently funded under this grant mechanism. Four broad challenges were revealed as critical to address when scientifically establishing culturally centered interventions for Native populations. These challenges were (a) their ability to harness culture-centered knowledge and perspectives from communities; (b) their utilization of Indigenous-based theories and knowledge systems with Western-based intervention paradigms and theories; (c) their use of Western-based methodologies; and (d) their cultural adaptation, if based on an evidence-based treatment. Findings revealed that qualitative methodologies and community-based participatory research (CBPR) approaches were very commonly used to finalize the development of interventions. Various Indigenous-based theories and knowledge systems and Western-based theories were used in the methodologies employed. Cultural adaptations were made that often used formative mixed qualitative and quantitative methods. Illustrative examples of strategies used and suggestions for future research are provided. Findings underscored the importance of CBPR methods to improve the efficacy of interventions for AI/AN/NH communities by integrating Indigenous-based theories and knowledge systems with Western science approaches to improve health.

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Section: Gathering the Medicine (Results)mentioning

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Encompassing Cultural Contexts Within Scientific Research Methodologies in the Development of Health Promotion Interventions

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“…Leaning into post-structuralism was relevant because obstetric medicine is largely maintained through a biomedical hegemonic discourse that privileges technology and “complex practices” (see Newnham, McKellar, & Pincombe, 2016; Waitzkin, 1983). These supporting theoretical perspectives are commensurate with CMA methodology, which recognizes the subtle ways in which hegemonic discourses assert power through language, symbolism, and meaning, rather than overt mechanisms of control (Singer & Baer, 1995). …”

Section: Micro–macro: Bridging the Analysismentioning

confidence: 82%

“…It has been argued that the link between micro-culture and macro-structure has often been left out of analyses (Singer & Baer, 1995; Willis, 2006). Attention to the micro sphere is necessary for identifying existing practices and experiences, whereas attention to the macro sphere is important for unearthing the cultural beliefs and perspectives that perpetuate these practices and experiences.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Singer and Baer (1995) continue, Further, high on the agenda of this approach is the exploration of the implications of all of these issues at the micro-level of individual experience and behavior; with the ways in which social conflict and oppressive experience is somatized or embodied in illness, and illness, in turn, becomes an arena for both resistance and political conscientization. (p. 62)…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The individual-level analysis reflects how these overarching levels of health care affect the woman and her own knowledge, practice, and experience within the dynamics of her biological, psychological, and social world. Singer and Baer (1995) emphasize that these levels of analysis are not exclusive. Rather, the model works as a heuristic device to assist with understanding the complexity of social forces and where they might sit in relation to each other and to the process of data analysis.…”

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Critical Medical Anthropology in Midwifery Research

Newnham

Pincombe

McKellar

2016

Global Qualitative Nursing Research

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In this article, we discuss the use of critical medical anthropology (CMA) as a theoretical framework for research in the maternity care setting. With reference to the doctoral research of the first author, we argue for the relevance of using CMA for research into the maternity care setting, particularly as it relates to midwifery. We then give an overview of an existing analytic model within CMA that we adapted for looking specifically at childbirth practices and which was then used in both analyzing the data and structuring the thesis. There is often no clear guide to the analysis or writing up of data in ethnographic research; we therefore offer this Critical analytic model of childbirth practices for other researchers conducting ethnographic research into childbirth or maternity care.

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