Psychiatry and Psychology

Medical Anthropology

Field of social science that is concerned with differences between human groups as related to health status and beliefs.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Field of social science that is concerned with differences between human groups as related to health status and beliefs.

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Anthropology, Medical

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

IM as the discipline (education, history, etc) only; NIM with no qualifiers as a coordinate

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History Note

2012

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Previous Indexing

  • Anthropology (1966-2011)

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Tree Numbers

  1. F04.096w.879w.201w.500w
  2. I01w.076w.284w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Medical Anthropology. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D060432. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D060432
  2. Medical Anthropology. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_anthropology
  3. Medical Anthropology. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1779521