ANTHROPOLOGY AND HEALTH: BLOOD TIES VERSUS BLOODY TIES
ANTHROPOLOGY AND HEALTH: BLOOD TIES VERSUS BLOODY TIES

Summary/Abstract: Consolidated around the middle of the 1960's in western anthropological research, medical anthropology or the anthropology of health, extremely young in specialized Romanian research, measures its growth on a tight field, where interdisciplines still seek those right words, meant to obtain truths out of maieutic exercises. In this case, the art of midwifery, to paraphrase the wise Socrates, should not only involve connecting the master with their disciples, but also to establish a code of communication of the results between: paleontologists, biologists, linguists, ethnologists and professionals in the health sciences. The study of populations from both a biologic and an ethnographic point of view, interactions between ecologic systems, as well as human evolution, the analysis of cultural and healing systems and of cognitive parameters of the disease or the political issues of health are extremely important subjects which require the immediate setting of a methodological code. We are now discussing statistics about the dynamics of professional migrations of the medical specialists, but very little about the forming of transcultural competences of a physician, about the condition of the "perfect patient" in the process of organizing a prevention on a national or continental scale, about social structures, personhood, faith, deontology. Our paper underlines the necessity of consolidation of this discipline, as a branch of cultural anthropology in Romanian research and, will try, as well to emphasize the great challenges drawn by the physician and their patient on the field, field which is more sensible than a multitude of classic geographic, political and economic limits.

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