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Applied Medical Anthropology and and its relevance to the resolution to health and healthcare problems
Applied Medical Anthropology is the application of anthropological theories and methods to health interventions, for example, an international and domestic health projects (Joralemon, 2010) Applied Medical Anthropologists work on cultural competency in a variety of U.S. health care context.
Applied medical anthropologist- whether they work on international or domestic health projects, teach in medical schools, or consult in U.S. hospitals- report that they are in a position of having to continually justify their presence to sometimes hostile technical experts, scientist, physicians, administrators, medical students, and even patients (Jarolemon, 2010.) This tenuous position of these anthropologists makes them vulnerable to everything from political swings in Washington to budget pressures in hospitals and medical schools. They frequently work without the benefit of collegial support because it is rare for more than one anthropologist to be included on development teams, teaching faculty, or hospitals/ clinic staff. They usually occupy marginal, ill-defined roles in organizations ruled by rigid professional hierarchies (Chrisman and Maretzki, 1982) (Jarolemon, 2010)
Applied Medical Anthropologists focus upon the particular manifestations of values within clinical encounters, rather than upon their existence, per se, within the clinical setting (ibid) (Jarolemon, 2010) There have also been efforts on the part applied medical anthropologists to get beyond the sometimes- strident attack of their critical colleagues to reexamine what is it that they are doing and to ask if they should be doing something differently
Applied medical anthropologist- whether they work on international or domestic health projects, teach in medical schools, or consult in U.S. hospitals- report that they are in a position of having to continually justify their presence to sometimes hostile technical experts, scientist, physicians, administrators, medical students, and even patients (Jarolemon, 2010.) This tenuous position of these anthropologists makes them vulnerable to everything from political swings in Washington to budget pressures in hospitals and medical schools. They frequently work without the benefit of collegial support because it is rare for more than one anthropologist to be included on development teams, teaching faculty, or hospitals/ clinic staff. They usually occupy marginal, ill-defined roles in organizations ruled by rigid professional hierarchies (Chrisman and Maretzki, 1982) (Jarolemon, 2010)
Applied Medical Anthropologists focus upon the particular manifestations of values within clinical encounters, rather than upon their existence, per se, within the clinical setting (ibid) (Jarolemon, 2010) There have also been efforts on the part applied medical anthropologists to get beyond the sometimes- strident attack of their critical colleagues to reexamine what is it that they are doing and to ask if they should be doing something differently