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Why medical anthropology matters
Author(s) -
Helman Cecil
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
anthropology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-8322
pISSN - 0268-540X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8322.2006.00409.x
Subject(s) - anthropology , medical anthropology , medal , citation , sociology , cultural anthropology , history , library science , art history , computer science
image of the colonized continent, has not been followed by a symmetrical anthropology of post-colonial France, which the riots now reveal as so necessary. The second explanation may be even more painful to examine because it concerns an ideological bias in the invisible framework that supports anthropological thought. The Enlightenment ideals of universalism and secularism, and the Republican model of integration, have laudably impregnated our discipline. However, in this context it has been difficult to criticize these ideals and this model on