This article reflects upon on the Anthropology of Health, understood as a field of convergence between the social sciences and the biomedical sciences, to account for its possibilities and challenges in the discipline of public health. A critical dialogical approach is proposed on the paradigms that support both disciplines, configuring a transdisciplinary space that guides research and teaching towards the transformation of the conditions of existence that underlie the main determinations of the health and well-being of people and communities. Based on the mind-body dichotomy in mental and reproductive health, three areas of tension are proposed, with their respective proposals that make anthropology a unique and powerful perspective to work in the field of public health, namely: paradigmatic tension and transdisciplinarity; the dilemmas between disciplinary languages and translatability, as well as the problematic between medical anthropology and applied anthropology, proposing a critical, applied and implied anthropology of health.
Keywords:
anthropology of health, critical medical anthropology, public health, transdisciplinarity
Álvarez Carimoney, A., Ruiz Contreras, M., Anigstein, M. S., & Oyarce, A. M. (2021). Challenges for a socio-anthropology of health: towards a theoretical and methodological approach regarding training, research, and action. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (43), 96–112. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1472.2021.64434
