EdCMA
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Description
The Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology (EdCMA) is a world-leading academic unit dedicated to the anthropological study of the body, health and medicine. Medical anthropology, a subfield of social anthropology, applies anthropological ideas, comparative theories and methodologies to the study of global health problems.
EdCMA currently has a wide range of topical and regional expertise, which includes anthropology as applied to:
- mental health
- global health
- infectious disease
- hospitals and health development bureaucracies
- medical anthropology and STS
- pharmaceuticals
- functional foods
- medical enhancement technologies
- traditional and alternative healing
- gender and reproduction
- vaccines and laboratories
- migration and health
- environmental health
- human-animal relationship
Our regional expertise lies in South Asia, North, Central and South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Melanesia.