Vs medical science 1-2
Anthropology versus medical sciences
- medical Science deals with prevention diagnosis and treatment of diseases with focus on human biology.
- Main branches are medicine, psychiatry, nutrition, genetics, physiology etc.
- Anthropology is the study of man in space and time.
- Branches that relate to medical science. Study of genetic counselling, ethnomedicine, nutrition Anthropology, epidemic anthropology, study of personality. Twin studies.
- Contribution. Demystified race. Created forensic science in crime. Comparative anatomy. Applied in health initiatives in Africa. Study of heredity traits. Effect of nature and nurture on humans.
- Differences
- Focus on chemicals and human health. Wider focus on role of socio-cultural environment - religion, family, caste -on human health
- How to treat disease.Vs Focus on how disease is perceived and tackled.
- Initial focus on advanced societies vs focus on primitives.
- Today collaborate in interdisciplinary field like ethnomedicine. Studying effects of culture on nutrition and health. Develop indigenous medicine Jeevani drug kAni tribe.