Terms

The main terms that the medanth wiki has covered are listed below. These terms cover main ideas, concepts, and areas of research within medical anthropology.

Each entry has the format: definition, history, case studies, online resources, further reading, and references.

Alternative Medicine

Behavioral Medicine Biocultural Bioethics Biomedicine Biopolitical

Communication Science Disorders Complementary Medicine Critical Medical Anthropologgy

Depression Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) Disabilities Studies

Embodiment Emic Epidemiology Ethnography Ethnomedicine Etic

Fitness: Folk Illness Food Security

Globalization: Governmentality

Illness: Infectious Disease

Life History Theory

Malnutrition Malnutrition-Infection Complex Medical Pluralism Medicalization

Nocebo Effect

Placebo Postcolonial Disorders

Qualitative

Race Reproductive Health

Sick Role: Stress Syndemic

Third Epidemiological Transition