Critical Medical Anthropology according to (Jorelmon 2010: 41) emphasizes the importance of political and economic forces including the exercise of power in shaping health, disease, illness experience, and health care. It suggests that disease is the product not of natural processes but of particular socioeconomic arrangements that give advantages to some at the expense of others.
Theoretical perspective in medical anthropology which stresses the importance of political and economic structures, especially global capitalism, on the health of human population (also known as the political economy of health).” (Joralemon, 2010:137) |