ANTHROPOLOGY AND HEALTH

In recent years, health related research in anthropology have been looking for ways to extend the approaches that focus on the cultural and social context of human behaviour. Anthropology could play in the development of public health policy with extensive research based on meticulous fieldwork which includes various methods used in physical and social anthropology for data collection.
The discipline is well-positioned to play a key role in addressing health issues in positive direction. The book connecting anthropology and health deals with the perspectives of clinically applied anthropology and associated paradigms as a framework for a better understanding of health and ethos. Using the anthropological method and interpretative analysis, contributions in this volume indicate that the construction of the meaning of health by individuals is central and overlaps with biomedical causality and rationality.

Rashmi Sinha is a Professor of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. An alumni of University of Delhi, she also served as an ad-hoc Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi, Delhi and she has also worked under the Women Scientist Scheme of Department of Science and Technology. She is member of various professional bodies. To her credit she has publications in national and international journals of repute and has also participated in national and international conferences/ seminars/ workshops in various capacities. Professor Sinha has carried extensive fieldwork in her areas of interest, which includes, Growth and Development, Human Physiology and Obesity Research in Physical Anthropology.