Critical Medical Anthropology
"Criticial medical anthropologists ask how the distribution of wealth and power and the division of labor affect disease patterns and health care access" (Joralemon 2010:10).
Critical medical anthropologists criticize applied medical anthropologists because they are shy and conservative, and because they are helping doctors have control over their patients. Critical medical anthropologists are hostile to medical teachers, researchers, and other healthcare professionals regarding political and economic interests in biomedicine (Joralemon 2010:98-99).
Critical medical anthropologists work with unions, ethnic organizations, people with AIDS, and health consumer groups, as well as working to reverse conditions related to environmental pollution, hazards associated with employment, and poor living conditions. Critical medical anthropologists would like to see national health insurance in the United States, see people treated individually, and provide empowerment to a culture along with educating the entire community (Joralemon 2010:99).
Critical medical anthropologists criticize applied medical anthropologists because they are shy and conservative, and because they are helping doctors have control over their patients. Critical medical anthropologists are hostile to medical teachers, researchers, and other healthcare professionals regarding political and economic interests in biomedicine (Joralemon 2010:98-99).
Critical medical anthropologists work with unions, ethnic organizations, people with AIDS, and health consumer groups, as well as working to reverse conditions related to environmental pollution, hazards associated with employment, and poor living conditions. Critical medical anthropologists would like to see national health insurance in the United States, see people treated individually, and provide empowerment to a culture along with educating the entire community (Joralemon 2010:99).