The above photo depicts how money and medicine are intertwined
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“Critical medical anthropology focuses on health care systems and how they function at multiple levels, including the individual level of patient experience, the micro-level of physician-patient relationships, the intermediate level of local health care systems, particularly hospitals and clinics, and the macro-social level of global political-economic systems. At each of these levels, the goal is to understand how existing social relations structure the relationships among the participants in the systems. In particular, critical medical anthropologists study the way health care is embedded within dominant relations such as those of class, race, and gender” (Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health website).
“Critical medical anthropology is a theoretical approach within medical anthropology that uses a critical theoretical framework and focuses on the political economy of health and health care. Political economy, from an anthropological perspective, includes the study of producing and exchanging goods, and the influence of government policy and capitalism on all aspects of life. When applied to studying health and health care, the political economy of health may include ways in which health services are differentially allocated based on wealth, and ways in which policy impacts health and delivery of health services. Political economy of health is a central component of critical medical anthropology, and a critical approach to medical anthropology seeks to uncover hidden causes of poor health as they relate to capitalism and neoliberal economics while examining health structures on a macro and micro level” (Singer 1995:80-106).
“The political economy of health stresses the relationship between the local conditions that affect health (and access to health care) and the worldwide capitalist system” (Joralemon 2010:13). Photo retrieved from http://www.thecityfix.com
-a tent city with skyscrapers as the backdrop-
where do you believe disease and famine is is likely to be? |
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