body ecologic

occupation / innovator as

anthropologist

medical anthropologist

is an understanding of medicine as co-substantial with (and a systematization of) the natural environment (e.g. Seasonality, ecological circumstances, climatic conditions).

Complementing 'the three bodies' (Scheper-Hughes and Lock 1987), she proposes a framework she calls the body ecologic, explaining that, 'In many medicines, humans are considered co-substantial with the natural environment, and accordingly many key terms convey culture-specific knowledge about ecological processes' (2007:92) (in Kate Fayers-Kerr).

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