Penerimaan masyarakat terhadap perkembangan biomedis,

dan pendekatan penyampaian dan penerapan ilmu biomedis

kepada masyarakat yang disesuaikan dengan kondisi
budaya setempat

TANTANGAN RELATIVISME BUDAYA

Dwi Utami Anjarwati

Biomedis FK UNSOED
• Culture is the norms, values and assumptions that a social
group of people share and create together, and the practices
that are created based on these norms, values and
assumptions (with reference to Geertz 1973, Ortner 1984,
1999, Hardon et al. 2001)
 BIOMEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Biomedical anthropology is a newly emerging discipline which

synchronizes the theoretical and methodological concepts of physical
anthropology and medical anthropology in the study of human diseases
and promotion of health of human populations (Balgir, 1996, 1999).

This includes the integral approaches of physical anthropologist with

interests in human biology, human genetics, molecular medicine, human
growth, development and nutrition, and human being as physical entity,
and of a medical anthropologist whose interests are in the areas of health
behaviour, medical care (intervention) systems, health planning,
psychosomatic illness including mental health, and correlation of
demographic variables
Biomedical Anthropology in the Service of Mankind in the New Millennium: Are We Ready?
R.S. Balgir