A medical anthropologist is someone who studies how culture, society, and beliefs affect health and healthcare practices. They explore how people from different backgrounds understand and experience illness, medicine, and healing. Full definition
American Medical anthropologists at the University of South Florida and UNLV, surveyed new mothers, and found that about 3/4 had positive experiences from eating their own placenta, citing «improved mood», «increased energy», and «improved lactation»» (wellnessmama.com)
Such questions are increasingly being asked by public health scholars, ethnographers, and medical anthropologists who are studying the so - called «therapeutic itineraries» of everyone from malaria sufferers in Gambia to diabetics in Brazil. (fortune.com)
Medical Anthropologist Robbie Davis - Floyd explains why we've gotten so obsessed with machines and numbers, how things are changing back to models that work in various parts of the world, and what you can take from those models to improve your experience. (birthful.com)