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Furthermore, many critically oriented scholars still prioritized careful research. Moreover, some made common cause with or were themselves biomedical insiders who offered constructive criticism, bridging the divide between an anthropology overfull with hyper-critical rhetoric and one that has been medicalized (regarding physician anthropologists, see (Wendland 2019). As Carole Browner explained in 1999, medicalized anthropology is that which has lost touch with anthropology’s principles; its practitioners “go native” when working within the health services (p. 135). Browner respected the anthropologist’s need to find a common language for communicating with health-care colleagues, and to adopt some of the medicine’s cultural practices to gain credibility. She understood the likelihood that many anthropologists have to some extent internalized biomedicine’s categories because of their reliance, at times, on the system for care. But, Browner warned, one of the grave dangers of being (bio)medicalized was sacrificing “critical distance” (p. 137).