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CHAPTER 3 Applied Medical Anthropology: Praxis, Pragmatics, Politics, and Promises
Robert T. Trotter, II
INTRODUCTION
Applied medical anthropology is a natural extension of basic anthropology theory and systematic qualitative methods focused on a practical exploration of the relationships between culture, society, health, healing, and the culturally created definitions of distress and disease, with the general pragmatic goal of deliberately improving health, healing, medicine, and the overall wellbeing of individuals, communities, cultures, and societies.
Applied medical anthropology has roots in the exploration of cultural differences in the common everyday experiences that shape peoples’ lives (c.f. Rylko-Bauer et al. 2006). While some areas of anthropological inquiry draw heavily on a relatively narrow range of theory and methods, applied medical anthropology tends to draw from all of the primary and secondary sources of anthropological theory. This empirical, and often eclectic or synergistic, approach commonly produces crucial links between different theoretical perspectives, methodological advances, and practical viewpoints within anthropology. It also challenges, supports, expands, and occasionally defeats theoretical paradigms from psychology, economics, political science, public health, epidemiology, and other parts of the biomedical and health research spectrum.