Anthropology is a basic tool for understanding the processes of health, illness and health care that take place in our society. However, has it come to form part of the intellectual arsenal of doctors for dealing with problems that are currently so important as the chronic nature of illnesses, lifestyles and cultural diversity? Can it help to improve health education based on the study of important media such as the Internet or television?
Cycle: Humanist Doctors? Medicine in society for the 20th Century
Organized by: Museum of the History of Medicine of Catalonia, Residence for Researchers, Barcelona Physicians’ Association.