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| is problem-oriented research in which anthropologists use their skills and knowledge to discover and explain factors that influence human behavior and to solve practical problems. |
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| studies the interaction among culture, disease, and health care. |
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| refers to medicine based on the application of the principles of the natural sciences, especially biology and biochemistry. |
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| aims to understand the health-related beliefs, knowledge, and practices of cultural groups. |
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| conceives the universe as made of opposing qualities - hot and cold, wet and dry - and sees health as a matter of balance between these opposites. |
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| are characterized by alternative systems of care and multiple usage patterns. People are likely to pursue several treatment alternatives simultaneously ("dual use") or use a sequence of treatments. |
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| uses anthropology to help solve crimes. |
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| results when people on welfare lose their entitlements as a result of real or inaccurately recorded failure on their part to comply with bureaucratic requirements. |
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| requires the anthropologist to actively support a group of people and often involves political action. |
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