Harwood,+Alan

=**Alan Harwood**=
 * (1935- )**

Identifications

 * Trained at:**
 * Harvard University in Social Relations (consisted of cultural anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists); his training was with anthropologist Clyde Kluckholn, Henry Murray (famous for inventing the "Thematic Apperception Test, and the sociologist Talcott Parsons
 * London School of Economics (MA, social history)
 * University of Michigan
 * Columbia University (PhD, sociocultural anthropology)

**On the development of "medical anthropology" as a sub-field:**

 * Harwood describes the 1960s and 1970s as a productive time for anthropology and social medicine; he notes the important shift from "applied" or "medical" anthropology being seen as an inferior to sociocultural anthropology to one as potentially useful and theoretically interesting. Harwood noted at the time that he was worried about the carving up of the field of anthropology.
 * Harwood worked in the South Bronx for the Office for Economic Opportunity (OEO) that was part of the Great Society Movement (under Johnson) that focused government resources and attention on social problems, particularly poverty. This social project was based in rural and urban underserved areas; it was focused on community clinics (for more of the founding and ideology behind these clinics, see Jack Geiger and Emily and Sidney Kark) as the foundation for comprehensive healthcare. There was a strong research component to this project that entailed not only gathering basic data on the communities being served by the healthcare centers, but also doing evaluations of social conditions, housing conditions, education, etc.
 * "Medical anthropologists" had to define themselves against "medical sociologists": the ownership of the culture concept versus an emphasis on traditional variables and structural variables
 * Accused of being "handmaidens" of medicine, doing research at the behest of the medical system and using theoretical concepts developed by medicine
 * The birth of the Medical Anthropology Newsletter (produced by Hazel Wideman, psychiatry, working in Miami); anthropologists were beginning to be published in JAMA and in The American Journal of Public Health; the journal Social Science and Medicine began to have a medical anthropology editor (Charles Leslie held this position for many years)

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