Editorial: Medical anthropology at home: Creating distance

Els van Dongen , Sylvie Fainzang (1)

1 CERMES - UMR 8169 / U750 - CERMES - Centre de recherche Médecine, Science, Santé Société

The time that medical anthropology only focused on health, sickness and health care in cultures other than those of the researchers belongs to the past. Worldwide, medical anthropology has developped a recent and growing interest in studying health issues 'at home' and the discipline shares its reasons for homecoming with genaral social and cultural anthropology.

Mots clés: medical anthropology; health anthropology; cultural anthropology

Mots clés: anthropologie de la santé; anthropologie médicale; anthropologie culturelle

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Els van Dongen, Sylvie Fainzang (Dir.). Editorial: Medical anthropology at home: Creating distance. Anthropology & Medicine, vol.5 (3) thematical issue, pp.245-250, 1998. ⟨halshs-00686623⟩