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CHAPTER 4 Research Design and Methods in Medical Anthropology
Clarence C. Gravlee
Medical anthropology is the study of health and healing in cross-cultural and evolutionary perspective. This expansive definition matches the scope of the field: It is at once a humanistic and scientific enterprise that crosses both disciplinary and subdisciplinary boundaries and values both applied and basic research. Medical anthropology’s holistic and integrative approach to human experience enriches our understanding of sickness and health, but it also poses a challenge in attempting to delineate the range of research methods relevant to the field: Medical anthropologists draw on the whole toolkit of social science, and many researchers also integrate methods from the humanities, public health, biomedicine, and the life sciences.
In the wake of COVID-19, the challenge is even greater because disruptions to anthropological research – as to daily life – forced both methodological
