(n.) The science of the structure and functions of the human body.
(n.) The science of man; -- sometimes used in a limited sense to mean the study of man as an object of natural history, or as an animal.
(n.) That manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to God.
Example Sentences:
(1) In an anthropologic study of illness referral among Latin-American immigrants three phases were ascertained: First, there was extended use of self-treatment.
(2) The present paper provides a cross-cultural perspective on these problems through description of anthropological and clinical data for a sample (N = 14) of subjects suffering from 5-alpha-reductase deficiency.
(3) The authors have presented a forensic anthropology case that established positive identification by comparison of antemortem and postmortem x-rays of the legs and feet.
(4) Results are analyzed with regard to current theories in cognitive psychology and anthropology.
(5) Although there have been studies of both Dutch colonial policy in the Indies and the development of anthropology in the Netherlands, there has been no systematic examination of the historical relations between them.
(6) This review evaluates anatomical, anthropological, and radiographic cephalometric data of the growing nasomaxillary complex, with special regard to their reliability and value for therapy planning.
(7) On the basis of findings published in the literature, morphologic changes seen among the author's patients were classified as anthropologic and teratologic dislocations.
(8) This paper discusses also the psychological, therapeutic and anthropological implications of recent discoveries in the field.
(9) The presence of common Caucasian anthropological features of genetic value in the patients and the lack of Indian mixture in three of the involved families, documented back to 1600, suggest a Caucasian origin of the mutation.
(10) A sample of 10 test ribs including 2 control specimens, was judged by 28 volunteers representing several levels of education and experience in the forensic and anthropological sciences.
(11) Remarkable differences between the two populations, whose cultural and anthropological differences are well established, were observed.
(12) Dr Noble and Professor Mason, explore the incidence of incest and society's attitudes to it from legal, anthropological, medical and social viewpoints.
(13) The anthropological structure of this residence, is characterised by a polar buffer between openess and privacy.
(14) The contributions of Physical Anthropology to each is discussed.
(15) On the background of this anthropologic situation addiction is understood as internalized foreign determination sustaining a common though antiquated scheme of psychic and social conflict conditioned by outdated patterns of education and socialisation.
(16) Concepts from medical anthropology and medical sociology are related to five components of health seeking -- symptom definition, illness-related shifts in role behavior, lay consultation and referral, treatment actions, and adherence.
(17) We need regenerative farming, not geoengineering Read more In this new conceptual and political space a term whose use was previously restricted mainly to academic anthropology departments has emerged: “the commons” – that realm of community self-organisation that is mediated neither by the market nor the state.
(18) These two males and the environment in which they live are contrasted with the anthropological literature published decades ago describing the unique Indian tribal role played by feminized males.
(19) Four methods are (a) examining past research, (b) examining cross-cultural research, (c) asking anthropological questions, and (d) using inductive research techniques to reexamine the problem.
(20) Weighing of the issues is therefore possible only on the basis of expert grounding in the latest discoveries in each particular field, and in such cases also on the foundation of anthropological knowledge and awareness of ethical principles ("nil nocere").
Ethnography
Definition:
(n.) That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.
Example Sentences:
(1) Making use of ethnography provides family physicians with a greater array of research methods compatible with clinical practice.
(2) The source and nature of the ethnography of the important eighteenth century thinker Johann Gottfried Herder can in large part be understood through his relationship to his own society and especially through his part in the German cultural nationalist movement of the day.
(3) They also present some of the major conceptual foundations of cultural psychiatry, which include ethnography, emic and etic approaches, the cross-cultural approach, and the study of subjective culture.
(4) This study is an ethnography of the ethics of one pediatric bone marrow transplant team.
(5) It outlines the advantages and limitations of such data sources as surveys, indicators, and ethnography, and briefly explores the work and utility of local, national, and international drug surveillance networks.
(6) Building on this theoretical background, an approach to ethnography is illustrated through an analysis of suffering in Chinese society.
(7) The findings of this analysis lead the author to argue, in contrast with recent ethnographies which treat discourses on emotions as rhetorical strategies rather than as reflections of personal or communal experience, that we need an integrative approach which focuses on the relationship between language and experience, politics and felt emotion.
(8) A longitudinal, clinical ethnography formed the basis of this study.
(9) This paper contrasts ethnography with a randomized clinical trial design addressing the same question.
(10) An overview of the purpose, methodology, strengths, and limitations of ethnography is presented.
(11) These matters concern the epistemological basis of ethnography, and the reliability of ethnographic research methods.
(12) A longitudinal, descriptive ethnography formed the basis of the study described in this article, in which 120 interviews were conducted over a period of 6 months with 13 individuals who had experienced lacunar infarcts of the internal capsule of the brain.
(13) In response to this concern, this study presents a framework of analysis based on ethnography as narrative of the old and the new.
(14) This research uses ethnography and grounded-theory methods to develop a model of recovering alcoholics' goal progression.
(15) Issues in family medicine such as patient compliance, doctor-patient relationships, and patients' subjective experience of illness may be optimally studied with ethnography.
(16) Ethnography is a qualitative research design that has relevance for clinical research in occupational therapy.
(17) Clinical ethnography as an alternative method of studying stroke recovery is described.
(18) Ethnography presents the researcher with a methodology for studying meaning carefully; a process for going beyond what is seen or heard to infer what people know by careful listening and observation of behavior, environment, and context.
(19) Qualitative research methods dominate in the humanities (history, literature), theology, law and some social sciences (ethnography).
(20) Medical anthropologist Daisy Deomampo, who has written an ethnography of surrogate mothers in Mumbai, argues that this image of the “deceitful surrogate” has helped doctors and parents conceal the power imbalance that made foreign surrogacy possible.