On the relation between the concepts of «anthropology» and «medical anthropology»

Abstract

The problem of correlation of concepts «anthropology» and «medical anthropology» is considered. Medical anthropology – is an area of knowledge that arose on the borders of the social, cultural and biological anthropology to explain the factors that affect the health and well-being of individuals and social groups, as well as to make apparent the cultural differences that exist in different human societies over ideas about diseases and how they spread, the practice of their treatment and prevention, as well as the social institutions that arise in this connection. The roots of medical anthropology in the study of medical leave crops (crops healing and health), even before the first host social anthropologists of the late XIX century. However, until the 1960s. for the majority of anthropological research problems of medicine, health, treatment and disease prevention remained secondary. Medical Anthropology is located at the intersection of anthropology and medicine and the problematic content of this joint should, in our view, to explore together anthropologists and representatives of medical science by combining their efforts. The former can focus on the study of normal human functioning, to maintain a stable human population, its survival in the particular environment, and the second – on the pathological functioning, undermines this stability. The objective basis of such collaboration is the dialectical unity of normal and abnormal human functioning. One without the other does not exist. Therefore, this is a normal operation, when are the leading processes, supporting the stability of the population as a system element is the people. Accordingly, in pathological human functioning leading role played by the processes that undermine its stability.

Keywords

anthropology / medical anthropology / quality / measure / health / norm / pathology / dialectical unity / human population

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