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Introduction: Human Animal Health in Medical Anthropology

Brown, Hannah; Nading, Alex

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Alex Nading



Abstract

This introductory article maps out the parameters of an emerging field of medical anthropology, human animal health, and its potential for reorienting the discipline. Ethnographic explorations of how animals are implicated in health, well‐being, and pathogenicity allow us to revisit theorizations of central topics in medical anthropology, notably ecology, biopolitics, and care. Meanwhile, the conditions of the Anthropocene force us to develop new tools to think about human animal entanglement. Anthropogenic change reorients debates around health and disease, but it also requires us to move beyond what some consider the traditional boundaries of the discipline. Zoonotic diseases, veterinary medicine, animal therapeutics, and food and farming are examples of topics that force such movement.

Citation

Brown, H., & Nading, A. (2019). Introduction: Human Animal Health in Medical Anthropology. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 331(1), 5-23. https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12488

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Aug 3, 2018
Online Publication Date Feb 27, 2019
Publication Date 2019-03
Deposit Date Aug 8, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Medical Anthropology Quarterly
Print ISSN 0745-5194
Electronic ISSN 1548-1387
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 331
Issue 1
Pages 5-23
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12488

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Advance online version © 2019 The Authors Medical Anthropology Quarterly published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American Anthropological Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.






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