Ah yes but has your anthropology been formally diagnosed and do you want a cure?
Are you an anthropologist first or a person with anthropology?
Larry
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> Hi Deborah:
>
> I'd like to wade in here as well. I'm a medical
> anthropologist/ community heatlh educator (Ph.D./MPH) who has
> spent most of my career doing applied research and designing
> interventions to help people of color and those who are
> marginalized to access programs and services including
> prevention, medical, mental health, and higher ed. I've done
> education, training, and am slowly moving into the area of
> policy and advocacy.
>
> Dr. George Foster, one of the founders of medical
> anthropology used to expound on how the community he studied
> in rural Mexico had the theory of "limited goods." I
> disagree feeling that many people all over the world
> especially "gatekeepers" are working within this same framework.
>
> Creating more resources may require policy change and advocacy.
>
> Best,
>
> Bertie Mo
>
>
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